Miniaturized coplanar waveguide bandpass filters using multisection stepped-impedance resonators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1090-1095

  Zhang, Hualiang ^b   Chen, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bandpass filters, cascaded quadruplet (CQ) filter; Coplanar waveguide (CPW); Fractional bandwidth (FBW); Stepped impedance resonator (SIR)

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS, CASCADED QUADRUPLET (CQ) FILTERS; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE (CPW); FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTH (FBW); STEPPED-IMPEDANCE RESONATORS (SIR);

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33644978887     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.864126     Document Type: Article

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