@conference {06_EuMC_Ruiz-CruzZhangFahmiEtAl_RidgeWaveguideElliptic,
	title = {Ridge Waveguide Elliptic Filters in Narrow-Wall Canonical Configuration},
	booktitle = {Proc. 36th European Microwave Conference},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Sept.},
	pages = {1080-1082},
	abstract = {A new canonical ridge waveguide structure is proposed to design elliptic filter responses. The non-adjacent cavities are coupled by windows situated at the common narrow-wall of the ridge waveguide enclosures. This new configuration provides positive and negative cross couplings using evanescent rectangular waveguides and metallic strips, respectively. The full-wave analysis of the structure is carried out by a rigorous mode matching method. The design is based on circuit synthesis and full-wave optimization. Finally, the proposed structure is elucidated with the design of a four-pole filter and it is validated with the commercial HFSS software},
	keywords = {circuit synthesis, elliptic filters, four-pole filter, full-wave optimization, metallic strips, mode matching, mode matching method, narrow-wall canonical configuration, negative cross couplings, network synthesis, nonadjacent cavities, positive cross couplings, rectangular waveguides, ridge waveguide elliptic filters, ridge waveguides, waveguide filtersHFSS software},
	issn = {2-9600551-6-0},
	doi = {10.1109/EUMC.2006.281121},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4057701/4057702/04058011.pdf?tp=\&isnumber=\&arnumber=4058011},
	author = {J A Ruiz-Cruz and Zhang, Y and Fahmi, M M and Zaki, K A}
}
@article {05_IEEETMTT_Ruiz-CruzSabbaghZakiEtAl_Canonicalridgewaveguide,
	title = {Canonical ridge waveguide filters in LTCC or metallic resonators},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques},
	volume = {53},
	number = {1},
	year = {2005},
	month = {Jan.},
	pages = {174-182},
	abstract = {A new physical realization of an elliptic function filter response is proposed for achieving compact size, wide bandwidth, wide spurious free stopband and high-selectivity performance. The filter configuration can be implemented in conventional waveguide technology or embedded in a multilayer low-temperature co-fired ceramic structure for integration with other circuitry in a chip module. The filter is analyzed using rigorous mode matching. To validate the concept, prototypes of four- and six-cavity elliptic filters are designed following a systematic procedure. Approximate synthesis is used to obtain initial dimensions of the filter and the desired optimum response is obtained by means of a final full-wave optimization. The results are verified with other numerical methods and with the measurements of a fourth-order waveguide filter.},
	keywords = {band-pass filters, canonical ridge waveguide filters, cavity resonator filters, ceramics, chip module, circuit optimisation, elliptic filters, elliptic function filter response, four cavity elliptic filters design, fourth order waveguide filter, full-wave optimization, metallic resonators, microwave filters, mode matching, multilayer low temperature cofired ceramic structure, multilayers, numerical methods, prototypes, resonators, ridge waveguides, six cavity elliptic filters design, spurious free stopband filter, waveguide filters band pass filters, waveguide technology},
	issn = {0018-9480},
	doi = {10.1109/TMTT.2004.839324},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/22/30125/01381687.pdf?tp=\&arnumber=1381687\&isnumber=30125},
	author = {J A Ruiz-Cruz and El Sabbagh, M A and Zaki, K A and Rebollar, J M and Zhang, Y}
}
@conference {05_APS_ZhangZakiRuiz-Cruz_Dualmodebandpass,
	title = {Dual mode bandpass filter with asymmetric transfer function},
	booktitle = {Proc. 2005 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium},
	volume = {2B},
	year = {2005},
	month = {July},
	pages = {634-637},
	abstract = {We demonstrate the feasibility of dual mode implementation of an asymmetric elliptic filter. A filter which has four poles and one transmission zero is synthesized from the general Chebyshev transfer function. The ideal electrical network of the longitudinal form is then obtained through several "rotation" operations on the initial coupling matrix. Finally, the dual mode circular waveguides are adopted to realize the ideal network.},
	keywords = {asymmetric elliptic filter, asymmetric transfer function, band-pass filters, Chebyshev filters, circular waveguides, coupling matrix, dual mode bandpass filter, dual mode circular waveguides, elliptic filters, ideal network, microwave filters, poles, poles and zeros, rotation operations, transfer function matrices, transmission zero, waveguide filters Chebyshev transfer function},
	issn = {0-7803-8884-4},
	doi = {10.1109/APS.2005.1552092},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10402/33057/01552092.pdf?tp=\&isnumber=\&arnumber=1552092},
	author = {Zhang, Y and Zaki, K A and J A Ruiz-Cruz}
}
