A novel UWB bandpass filter and its application to UWB pulse generation,AIts ovel ~10 plication -D andpass to U Filter and 0iXT Generation Tt A Pulse Keren Li, Daisuke Kurita, and Toshiaki Matsui National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NiCT) 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan keren@nict.gojp, Tel. +81-42-32]-6883, Fax. +81-42-327-6669 Abstract - This paper presented an ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter using broadside-coupled microstrip-coplanar waveguide structure The filter consists of a microstrip line coupled to a coplanar waveguide (CPW) that was fabricated on the ground of the microstrip line. The proposed filter has been simulated, fabricated and measured for UWB system. The measured results of a 3-section filter demonstrated the best UWB performance around the world bandwidth from 3.0 GHz to 10……