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Novel Application of a New Metamaterial Complementary Electric LC Resonator for the Design of Miniaturized Sharp Band-Pass Filters Homayoon Oraizi, Seyede Yalda Torabi Department of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 1684613114, Iran Received 9 August 2012; accepted 3 December 2012 ABSTRACT: In this article, we introduce a new metamaterial complementary electric LC resonator (CELC) and investigate its operational mechanism, characteristics, and potential- ities for application in microwave components and devices, such as filters. We consider the excitation of CELC by the electric and magnetic fields of microstrip lines and its resonance characteristics by the diagrams of effective permittivity (eeff) and permeability (leff). A cir- cuit model is obtained by the consideration of its coupling with the loaded microstrip line. We then realize a novel left-handed (LH) cell by the combination of the CELC resonator and a short circuited stub. It is designed by the least mean square method. We finally use the cascade connection of such LH cells for the design of a miniaturized narrow-band band- C pass filter with high out of band rejection. V 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 23:471–475, 2013. Keywords: complementary; resonator; narrow-band; band-pass filter; metamaterial I. INTRODUCTION coupling with the electric or magnetic fields in a nar- Various microwave devices have been designed by meta- row band around the resonance frequency [3, 4]. How- materia