Modeling of a photonic bandgap and its application for the low-pass filter design

A new photonic bandgap unit structure for microstrip line is proposed. The equivalent circuit for the proposed photonic bandgap unit structure is derived by means of three dimensional field analysis methods. The equivalent circuit parameters are extracted by using the circuit analysis method. By employing the extracted parameters, the wide-band harmonic rejection low-pass filter is designed. The experimental results show the excellent agreements with theoretical results.