Stopband-enhanced and size-miniaturized low-pass filters using high-impedance property of offset finite-ground microstrip line

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2844-2850

  Sun, Sheng ^a,b   Zhu, Lei ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Enhanced stopband; Finite ground microstrip line (FGML); High characteristic impedance; Low pass filter (LPF); Method of moments (MoM); Short open calibration (SOC)

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED STOPBAND; FINITE-GROUND MICROSTRIP LINE (FGML); HIGH CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; METHODS OF MOMENT (MOM); SHORT-OPEN CALIBRATION (SOC);

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INDUCTANCE; MICROSTRIP LINES;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 27744524198     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.854173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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