“…In particular, recently, the microwave engineering applications of artificial metamaterials have been widely discussed and various novel microwave components, for example, filters [17], shifters [18], multiplexers [19], and power combiners/dividers [20], were reported, since the first realization of metamaterials [3]. The metamaterials based filters are mostly realized by integrating metamaterial resonators into conventional transmission systems so that the filters can pass or stop electromagnetic waves [21], and some metamaterialinspired filters operated at terahertz frequency bands have been reported [22,23]. Specifically, due to the single negative permeability or permittivity characteristics of some metamaterials such as SRRs and electric-LC resonators, the electromagnetic waves or signals cannot be transmitted in such media and therefore the band stop (notch) filters [24][25][26] are achieved.…”