Because of their advantages of low cost and easy fabrication, ring resonators are used in many applications such as filters, oscillators, mixers, baluns, hybrids, magic Ts, couplers, and antennas. In addition, they have been successfully used to measure the phase velocity and dispersion of a microstrip line. This article explains the basic field and circuit model analyses that can be used to investigate the characteristics of a ring resonator. On the basis of these analyses, ring resonators can be implemented and designed for different devices. The simple structure and high performance of a ring circuit fulfill the highly desired requirements of many modern wireless systems and other applications.