A novel microstrip square-loop dual-mode bandpass filter with simultaneous size reduction and spurious response suppression

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2033-2040

  Fok, Si Weng ^a,b   Cheong, Pedro ^a,b   Tam, Kam Weng ^a,b   Martins, Rui P ^a,b,c,d  

^a IEEE   (Macao)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d IST Joint Chapter of Circuits and Systems (CAS)

Author keywords

Dual mode resonator; Insertion loss; Size reduction; Spurious response suppression

Indexed keywords

DUAL-MODE RESONATORS; FREQUENCY TUNING; SIMULTANEOUS SIZE REDUCTIONS; SPURIOUS RESPONSE SUPPRESSIONS;

INSERTION LOSSES; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; RESONATORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TUNING; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33646748890     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.873626     Document Type: Article

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