Unwanted even order modes in tunable microstrip ring resonators can be suppressed by providing a low resistance path to ground at an appropriate point on the ring. This suppression method is simple to implement, and has minimal effect on the Q factor and the resonance frequency of the wanted modes.
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Paul et al. (1994) studied this question.
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