Active and Passive Electronic Components
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 537069, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/537069
Research Article

Modeling and Measurements of Novel Monolithic Filters

Aly H. Aly,1 Badawy El-Sharawy,1 and Adalbert Beyer2

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-7206, USA
2Department of Electrical Engineering and Communications, University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg, 47057 Duisburg, Germany

Received 27 December 2007; Accepted 24 June 2008

Academic Editor: T. Kalkur

Copyright © 2008 Aly H. Aly et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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