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Abstract

This letter presents a novel quad-band bandstop filter. It is formed by loading a microstrip line with two special resonators. The special resonator can be seen as a coupled-line and shorted stub-loaded half-wavelength microstrip resonator (CSSHMR). The resonator can resonate at four frequencies, which forms the corresponding equivalent shorted points at the microstrip line. Therefore, signals are rejected at these equivalent short-circuited points, which realizes the quad-band bandstop responses. The four resonant frequencies can be separately adjusted in a limited range. The gap coupling between the resonators can be introduced to adjust the performance. A transmission line model is built to analyze the quad-band bandstop filter. A prototype quad-band bandstop filter is designed, fabricated and measured. The measured and simulated results have a good agreement.

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