In this work, three successive filter models based on defected ground structure (DGS) techniques are designed, fabricated, and tested to be utilized for different wireless applications. The filters are printed on a RO5880 substrate of an overall size of 22 × 11 × 0.8 mm3. Three DGSs are etched from the ground plane to achieve the suggested band stop features for all frequencies above 10 GHz. The first model is a low-pass filter that succeeded to pass all frequencies below 10 GHz, the second model is a bandpass filter that operated at 4.5 and 9 GHz after using a pair of interdigital capacitors, and the third model covered all ultra-wideband frequency range when a pair of lumped capacitors is utilized instead of the interdigital capacitors. Good consistency between simulated and measured outcomes is achieved for each of the three filters confirming their suitability to be embedded in small-sized wireless devices.

A compact microstrip multi-stub loaded bandpass filter (BPF) with ultra-wide stopband is introduced and investigated. Lumped-equivalent circuit (LEC) method is adopted to analyze the characteristics of the in-band response based upon the low frequency LEC and even-odd mode analytical method. Besides, equivalent transmission line circuit method with even-odd mode analytical method are adopted to discuss the mechanism of the out-band rejection based upon the transmission poles and the transmission zeros analysis of the even-/odd-mode equivalent circuits. Accordingly, the design and the optimization procedures of this type of filters are summarized. To experimentally validate the proposed method, the filter is fabricated and measured. The measured results illustrate this BPF centered at f0 = 2.8 GHz, with −3 dB fractional bandwidth of 109.3%, the insert loss (IL) of less than 1 dB from 1.4 to 4 GHz, and the rejection level of 20 dB from 5.1 to 33.5 GHz(1.82f0 to 11.96f0).