Modeling of symmetric composite right/left-handed coplanar waveguides with applications to compact bandpass filters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3460-3466

  Mao, Shau Gang ^a,b   Wu, Min Sou ^a,b   Chueh, Yu Zhi ^a,b   Chen, Chun Hsiung ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter (BPF); Composite right left handed (CRLH) coplanar waveguide (CPW); Resonator

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED (CRLH) COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES (CPW); FULL-WAVE SIMULATION; INTERDIGITAL CAPACITORS; STUB INDUCTORS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INDUCTANCE; RESONATORS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 28144440160     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.857114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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