An asymmetric defected ground structure with elliptical response and its application as a lowpass filter

A new asymmetric defected ground structure (DGS) consisting of two square headed slots connected with a rectangular slot transversely under a microstrip line is proposed. In the frequency characteristics of its unit cell, an attenuation zero is observed close to the attenuation pole. The DGS unit is represented by Cauer's T-network, modeled by a third order elliptical lowpass filter and finally equivalent L-C parameters are extracted. Several studies have been accomplished on the influence of the geometric modification of the filter on its characteristics. Better transition sharpness, lower passband insertion loss and broader stopband are observed, compared to popular dumbbell DGSs due to its additional attenuation zero. The two-cell configuration of this DGS produces a three-pole lowpass filter having wide and deep stopband at low cutoff frequency. This is applied under the input and output feed lines of a parallel-coupled bandpass filter for suppressing harmonic frequencies. A lowpass filter is realized using cascaded investigated DGS and dumbbell DGS under a microstrip line.