Low-temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) ridge waveguide bandpass chip filters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2317-2324

  Rong, Yu ^a,b   Zaki, Kawthar A ^b,c   Hageman, Michael ^a,c   Stevens, Daniel ^a,c   Gipprich, John ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Paratek Microwave Inc   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; Evanescent mode waveguide; LTCC; Multiplayer circuits; Ridge waveguide; Via technology

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; WAVEGUIDES;

LOW-TEMPERATURE COFIRED CERAMICS (LTCC); RIDGE WAVEGUIDE BANDPASS CHIP FILTERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 0033281664     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.808977     Document Type: Article

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