Triple-conductor combline resonators for dual-band filters with enhanced guard-band selectivity

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3969-3979

  Ruiz Cruz, Jorge A ^a   Fahmi, Mohamed M ^b   Mansour, Raafat R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Nanowave Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dual resonance TEM mode filters; multiband filters; multiconductor combline; re entrant cross section

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT MODELS; COMBLINE RESONATORS; COMPACT SIZE; COUPLING SCHEME; DUAL-BAND; DUAL-BAND FILTER; ELECTRICAL RESONATORS; FILTER DESIGNS; GUARD-BAND; LOW COSTS; MANUFACTURING FEATURES; METALLIC CONDUCTOR; MULTI-CONDUCTOR; MULTIBAND FILTERS; RE-ENTRANT CROSS SECTION; REJECTION LEVELS; RESONANT MODE; SIZE REDUCTIONS; TRANSMISSION ZEROS;

RESONATORS;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 84871755472     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2223482     Document Type: Article

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