Fractal-shaped microstrip coupled-line bandpass filters for suppression of second harmonic

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2943-2947

  Kim, Il Kwon ^a,b,c   Kingsley, Nickolas ^a,c   Morton, Matt ^a,c   Bairavasubramanian, Ramanan ^a,c   Papapolymerou, John ^a,c,d   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a,c,e,f,g   Yook, Jong Gwan ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d US National Committee of URSI   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f TECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE   (Greece)

^g RF Technical Committee (TC16)

Author keywords

Fractal shaped bandpass microstrip coupled line filter; Koch fractal geometry; Liquid crystal polymer (LCP); Second harmonic suppression

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL SHAPED BANDPASS MICROSTRIP COUPLED LINE FILTERS; KOCH FRACTAL GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER (LCP); SECOND HARMONIC SUPPRESSION;

FRACTALS; MICROSTRIP LINES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 27744518010     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.854263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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