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Vol: 57(71) No: 3 / September 2012

Band Structure of a Multi-Via Periodic Strip-line Surface Devised for Multiple Band Rejection Applications
Aldo De Sabata
Department of Measurements and Optical Electronics, \"Politehnica\" University of Timişoara, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Bd. Vasile Pârvan No. 2, 300223 Timişoara, Romania, phone: (+40) (0)256-403370, e-mail: aldo.desabata@etc.upt.ro
Ladislau Matekovits
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy, phone: (+39) (0)11-0904119, e-mail: ladislau.matekovits@polito.it


Keywords: periodic structure, electromagnetic band-gap, strip-line, filtering, signal integrity, noise mitigation

Abstract
A multi-via structure realized in strip-line technology in view of filtering and noise mitigation applications is proposed. The device relies upon a periodically patterned surface impressed on one side of a microstrip board and connected to the ground plane by several vias and covered with a dielectric material and a second metal plane. The assessment of the properties of the structure, which presents several electromagnetic band-gaps, is performed by calculating the dispersion diagrams through full-wave electromagnetic simulation. The design of the spatial period of the surface is flexible. It is shown that the proposed device can be designed to meet applications dependent frequency domain requirements by scaling.

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