Novel coplanar-waveguide bandpass filters using loaded air-bridge enhanced capacitors and broadside-coupled transition structures for wideband spurious suppression

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3359-3368

  Lin, Shih Cheng ^b   Kuo, Tsung Nan ^b   Lin, Yo Shen ^a,c   Chen, Chun Hsiung ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air bridge; Bandpass filter; Coplanar waveguide (CPW); Microstrip; Quarter wavelength resonator; Spurious suppression; Stepped impedance resonator (SIR)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; RESONATORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEGUIDES;

AIR BRIDGE; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE (CPW); MICROSTRIP; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH RESONATOR; SPURIOUS SUPPRESSION; STEPPED-IMPEDANCE RESONATOR (SIR);

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33747259558     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.879175     Document Type: Article

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