This paper presents a novel compact suspended double side millimeter bandpass filter (BPF) with wide stopband using Suspended Compact Microstrip Resonant Cell (SCMRC). For SCMRC exhibits slow-wave band-stop characteristics, two distributed SCMRC structures are designed to achieve wide stopband characteristic. By applying SCMRC structure and double side design, this novel BPF is size reduced. Ba...

In this paper, a comparative performance of microstrip filters loaded with various dumbbellshaped defected ground structures (DB-DGS) has been studied in terms of their bandstop characteristics. During this course, a new dumbbell shaped DGS having transmetal slit in the connecting slot of the square head in the ground plane has been proposed. This proposed design provides an improved bandstop r...

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Technology P. O. Box 35239, Baghdad, Iraq A new compact narrowband multiresonator microstrip filter design is presented in this paper as a candidate for use in modern wireless communication systems. The proposed filter structure is generated using Peano fractal curve geometry. The proposed filter structure is fractally generated u...

This paper describes the first integrated transversal filter for feed-forward equalizers (FFE) operating above 40 Gb/s. Equalization of a 2−1 PRBS over a 9-ft and 6.5-ft cable with SMA connectors is demonstrated on-wafer at 40 Gb/s and 49 Gb/s respectively. The circuit is implemented in a commercial 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS process and is based on a differential distributed 7-tap fractionally spaced...

We propose, for the first time, neural space-mapping (NSM) optimization for electromagnetic-based design. NSM optimization exploits our space-mapping (SM)-based neuromodeling techniques to efficiently approximate the mapping. A novel procedure that does not require troublesome parameter extraction to predict the next point is proposed. The initial mapping is established by performing upfront fi...

In this paper, frequency-tunable microstrip antennas, for cognitive radio applications, are proposed. The approach is based on electrically tuning the antenna’s operating frequency by integrating reconfigurable band pass filters into wideband antenna structures. The design of an open loop resonator (OLR)-based bandstop filter, and its transformation to a bandpass filter, are investigated first....

A novel microstrip lowpass filter is proposed to achieve a very wide stopband and high selectivity as well as compact size. This filter utilizes a resonator with symmetric structure that consists of a transmission line, loaded with open stubs. Each stub ends with a defected taper and these tapers are coupled two by two to generate enhanced capacitances and increase the selectivity. Two units of...

A microstrip ultra-wideband (UWB) filter with unique shape, compactness, simplicity of operation and flexible notch characteristics is introduced. It is based on the fundamental and harmonic characteristics of a 50 Ohm transmission line that is grounded at both ends. The filter possesses design flexibility in the sense that it can operate as a stand-alone UWB component or include simple additio...

A compact microstrip band pass filter using metamaterial resonators is proposed and implemented, aiming at high level of miniaturization, low cost and ease of fabrication. Some considerations in order to improve and control the coupling coefficients between resonators are exposed. The magnetic and electric character of the coupling coefficient is analyzed in detail. The proposed filter has narr...

Filters play an important role in many RF/Microwave applications [1] and are used to select or confine the RF/microwave signals within assigned spectral limits. Emerging applications such as wireless communications continue to challenge RF/microwave filters with ever more stringent requirements like higher performance, smaller size, lighter weight, and lower cost. Microstrip filters are always ...