Tunable bandpass and bandstop filters based on dual-band combline structures

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 1, 2010, Pages 3710-3719

  Abunjaileh, Alaa I ^a   Hunter, Ian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combline filters; microwave filters; tunable filters

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; BAND-STOP FILTERS; BANDWIDTH TUNING; CENTER FREQUENCY; CENTRE FREQUENCY; COMBLINE FILTERS; DUAL-BAND; MEASURED RESULTS; PASS BANDS; STOPBAND; TUNABLE BANDPASS FILTER; TUNABLE BANDSTOP FILTERS; TUNABLE FILTERS; WIDE PASSBAND;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC FILTERS; NOTCH FILTERS; TUNING;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 78650270473     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2083950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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