A Si 1.8 GHz RLC filter with tunable center frequency and quality factor

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1517-1524

  Pipilos, Spyros ^b   Tsividis, Yannis P ^{a,b,c,e,f,g,h,i,j}   Fenk, Josef ^d   Papananos, Yannis ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics   (United States)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^h LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

ⁱ MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^j MIT ^*

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FREQUENCY TUNING; PARASITIC CAPACITANCES; QUALITY FACTOR; TUNABLE CENTER FREQUENCY;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 0030270563     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.540064     Document Type: Article

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