The design and analysis of two defected ground structures (DGS)-based filters have been proposed in this article. The first is a multifrequency bandstop filter (BSF) which utilizes a semi-H defect in the ground plane. This structure is then prototyped on a Rogers 4350B substrate of overall size 45 mm × 15 mm with an external SMD capacitors employed to control the resonance of the circuit for the stopband frequencies of 433, 700, and 915 MHz. An equivalent-circuit is modified to validate this multiband filter. The second filter is a combination of a BSF and bandpass filter in one structure. The filter operating with a controllable passband and stopband frequency is fabricated on Rogers 4350B lossy substrate. Two SMD capacitors are loaded in the filter structure to control the passband and stopband frequencies of the filter with a structure size of 20 mm x 20 mm. Finally, the equivalent circuit from the BSF is modified further to encompass the bandpass and bandstop frequency response of the proposed work. K E Y W O R D S multiband DGS, circuit model, bandstop filter, bandpass filter 1 INTRODUCTION Defected ground structures (DGS) are introduced in order to improve the performance of microstrip circuits and components while minimizing the overall size of the design. 1-4 In a DGS, defects are introduced in the ground plane to improve the frequency response of the considered components. The geometry of this defect is selected such that it disturbs the surface current in the ground plane and helps in achieving the desired electromagnetic effect. The miniaturization, selectivity, bandwidth enhancement, and so on provided by the DGS has catapulted this as a key concept in the design of many high frequency circuits and components such as filters, power dividers, antennas, antenna arrays, and so on 5-8 The recent literature is replete with reports of DGS-based bandstop filters (BSFs) and their usage in near-field wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. 9-13 In essence, performance of DGS-based filter plays a crucial role in regulating the power transfer efficiency of the WPT circuits and, therefore, there has been a great deal of research on this topic. 14-17 It has been established that the DGS filters used in the design of WPT systems can be simplified through equivalent circuit-based analysis. The equivalent circuit models of such filters are relatively simple in nature and do not consider the effects of the discontinuity present between the microstrip line and the defected ground plane. However, the report on the-type equivalent circuit to model the DGS which looks into this concern to some extent 18 can be useful for the design of more The work was financially supported in part through the Nazarbayev University FDCRG Number SOE2019005 (110119FD4515). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.