Micromachined T/F-band filters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 598-606

  Robertson, Stephen V ^a   Katehi, Linda P B ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROMACHINING; MICROSTRIP LINES; PERFORMANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC LOSS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROSHIELD LINE; SHIELDED MEMBRANE MICROSTRIP LINES; SILICON MICROMACHINING; THIN DIELECTRIC MEMBRANES; W-BAND FILTERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 0030125719     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.491027     Document Type: Article

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