Wide-stopband microstrip bandpass filters using dissimilar quarter-wavelength stepped-impedance resonators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1011-1017

  Lin, Shih Cheng ^b   Deng, Pu Hua ^b   Lin, Yo Shen ^a,b,c   Wang, Chi Hsueh ^b   Chen, Chun Hsiung ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter (BPF); Coupled resonator; Microstrip; Quarter wavelength stepped impedance resonator; Spurious suppression

Indexed keywords

COUPLED RESONATORS; MICROSTRIPS; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH STEPPED-IMPEDANCE RESONATOR; SPURIOUS SUPPRESSION;

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33644983257     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.864139     Document Type: Article

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