and experiment. The measured stopband of the filter was found to be 60 dB up to 44f 0 and 110 dB up to 24f 0 .
| S U M M A R YThis letter has described an investigation of a multilayered, multi-conductor stripline resonator, which consists of metaldielectric structure suspended in the middle of a metallic case. All the conductors in the resonator have strong mutual inductive coupling, and hence the previously proposed theory for interdigital microstrip resonator can be incorporated. Increase in the number of the conductors leads to raising the unloaded Q-factor and lowering the resonant frequency; moreover, with tinier interlayers, the effects magnify.A 4-pole passband filter was designed and fabricated, based on the resonator. It was found that, for the central frequency of 360 MHz and 10% fractional bandwidth, the overall size of the filter was only 15.5 3 31.75 3 8.45 mm 3 (0.019k 3 0.038k 3 0.013k). The fabricated filter has upper stopband up to 44f 0 at level 260 dB and 24f 0 at level 2110 dB.
AbstractIn this article, a linearly polarized 4-element linear array in Ku band is presented. The single element consists of a circular microstrip patch capacitively coupled to a printed 2216 | MURIEL-BARRADO ET AL.