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Abstract

This paper suggests the design of a novel miniaturized dual-band bandpass filter based on the composite right/left-handed (CRLH) metamaterial structure. In detail, subwavelength resonators are realized through the zeroth order resonance (ZOR), and inverter structures are proposed to control the coupling between neighboring ZOR resonators. The proposed technique is validated by the EM predictions, the proof of metamaterial properties with the ZOR field distributions and extracted constitutive parameters, and measurements. It is found that the suggested method enables the remarkable size reduction from the conventional filters such as the parallel coupled type which is designed on the basis of the half-wavelength resonance.

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Dr. Geonho Jang

Prof. Sungtek Kahng