posed. It has been demonstrated that these wide bands and small dimensions can be achieved due to the combination of grounded stubs and DS-CSRRs. A fabricated prototype band-pass filter with 30% fractional bandwidth centered at f o ϭ 3.8 GHz has demonstrated high performance, with measured in-band losses below 1 dB, out-of-band rejection above 40 dB, and small dimensions. This work may open the door to new design strategies for the synthesis of wideband planar filters.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis work was supported by MEC by project contract nos. TEC2004-04249-C02-01, TEC2004-04249-C02-02, and PROFIT 330200-2004-113. The authors also thank the European Community (Eureka Program) for project no. 2895-TELEMAC. The authors are in debt to CONATEL s.1. for supporting this work, and to Ricard Pineda (Omicron Circuits s.1.) for the fabrication of the prototypes.
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