The design of a compact, wide spurious-free bandwidth bandpass filter using stepped impedance resonators

35th European Microwave Conference 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 925-928

  U yen, Kongpop ^a,b,c   Wollack, Edward J ^a,c   Doiron, Terence ^a,c   Papapolymerou, John ^a,b   Laskar, Joy ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-LINE COUPLING; STEPPED IMPEDANCE RATIO;

BANDWIDTH; RESONATORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33644977413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2005.1610078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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