New formulas for synthesizing microstrip bandpass filters with relatively wide bandwidths

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 231-233

  Chin, Kuo Sheng ^a   Lin, Liu Yang ^a   Kuo, Jen Tsai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Parallel coupled filter; Wide bandwidth

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COUPLED STAGES; MICROSTRIP BANDPASS FILTERS; PARALLEL-COUPLED FILTER; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 2542456797     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2004.827865     Document Type: Article

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