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Using this characteristic, we fix the lower resonant frequency by fixing the SRR length and tune the higher resonant frequency by controlling the stub length by injecting liquid metal in the microfluidic channel. We fabricated the filter on a Duroid substrate. The microfluidic channel was made from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and eutectic gallium\u2013indium (EGaIn) was used as the liquid metal. This filter operates in two states\u2014with, and without, the liquid metal. In the state without the liquid metal, the filter has resonant frequencies at 1.85 GHz and 3.06 GHz, with fractional bandwidths of 4.34% and 2.94%, respectively; and in the state with the liquid metal, it has resonant frequencies at 1.86 GHz and 2.98 GHz, with fractional bandwidths of 4.3% and 2.95%, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17081884","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,16]],"date-time":"2017-08-16T10:43:51Z","timestamp":1502880231000},"page":"1884","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Dual-Band Band-Pass Filter with Fixed Low Band and Fluidically-Tunable High Band"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Eiyong","family":"Park","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 06974, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daecheon","family":"Lim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 06974, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5049-9300","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sungjoon","family":"Lim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 06974, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"2781","article-title":"A High Performance Ibc-Hub Transceiver for Intra-Body Communication System","volume":"54","author":"Kim","year":"2012","journal-title":"Microw. 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