This Paper is an attempt to give an overview of Microstrip Spurline Band Stop Filter. The basic concepts and filtering characteristics of Microstrip Spurline Band Stop Filter are introduced and the equivalent circuit models with filter response are also presented. Also, the main applications of Microstrip Spurline Band Stop Filter in microwave technology field are summarized and the evolution t...

A new wideband Wilkinson Power Divider which use the nonuniform substrate integrated waveguide (NSIW) method is presented in this paper. This structure utilizes NSIWs instead of the uniform quarter wavelength SIWs in conventional Wilkinson power divider. The proposed structure is analyzed by odd and even mode analysis. The proper NSIW section widths can be extracted by using even mode while the...

A compact ultra-wide-band (UWB) band-pass filter (BPF) with dual notch bands is presented using novel defected ground structures (DGS). A couple of triangle-ring resonators with four open-stubs fed by a couple of inter-digital coupled structures is developed to meet the UWB requirement of a uniform 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz full-band transmission response. Dual notch bands are generated for filtering o...

In this paper, a novel technique for the design of two-channel Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) banks with linear phase in frequency domain is presented. To satisfy the exact reconstruction condition of the filter bank, low-pass prototype filter response in pass-band, transition band and stop band is optimized using unconstrained indirect update optimization method. The objective function is form...

A small antenna with single notch band at 3.5 GHz is designed for ultrawideband (UWB) communication applications. The fabricated antenna comprises a radiating monopole element and a perfectly conducting ground plane with a wide slot. To achieve a notch band at 3.5 GHz, a parasitic element has been inserted in the same plane of the substrate along with the radiating patch. Experimental results s...

Recent studies of plasmon surface wave (PSW) propagation in short-period perfectly conducting gratings have shown formation of stop-band that are not linked to the interaction between two (counter) propagating surface waves. We study the properties of this stop-band in real metals. While for both perfectly conducting and real metals the propagation constant of PSW grows with the groove height, ...