“…Its operating principle lies in the fact that, with an appropriate choice of length, the open-ended stub acts as a short at the cut-off frequency [1]. A tunable BSF provides many advantages like tunability, compactness, selectivity, cost-effectiveness, and spectrum management in RF and microwave circuits [2], [3]. Stop-band tunability over small ranges includes varactor [4], substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) resonator coupled microstrip line [5], and half mode SIW for flexibly controlled cut-off [6], [7].…”