Advanced stepped-impedance dual-band filters with wide second stopbands

Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mokhtaari, Marjan ^a   Rambabu, K ^b   Bornemann, Jens ^a   Amari, Smain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dual band filters; Filter design; Microstrip filters; Stepped impedance resonators

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL FILTERS; RESONATORS;

ASIA-PACIFIC; DUAL BANDS; DUAL-BAND FILTERS; ELECTRIC COUPLING; FILTER DESIGN; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MICROSTRIP FILTERS; PASS-BANDS; STEPPED-IMPEDANCE; STEPPED-IMPEDANCE RESONATOR; STEPPED-IMPEDANCE RESONATORS; STOP-BANDS; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 51849086350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2007.4554799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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