Design and performance of a SAW ladder-type filter at 3.15 GHz using saw mass-production technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2312-2316

  Springer, Andreas ^a   Hollerweger, Franz ^a,c   Weigel, Robert ^a,b   Berek, Stefan ^a,b   Thomas, Ralf ^a,b   Ruile, Werner ^a,b   Ruppel, Clemens C W ^b,c   Guglielmi, Marco ^a,c  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ladder type filter; Saw process technology; Surface acoustic wave filters

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; INSERTION LOSSES; LADDER NETWORKS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; SUBSTRATES;

OPTICAL PROJECTION PRINTING TECHNIQUES;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 0033281521     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.808976     Document Type: Article

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