Voltage-controlled RF filters employing thin-film barium-strontium-titanate tunable capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 462-467

  Tombak, Ali ^a   Maria, Jon Paul ^b   Ayguavives, Francisco T ^c   Jin, Zhang ^d   Stauf, Gregory T ^e   Kingon, Angus I ^b   Mortazawi, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c Crystal Associates   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ENTEGRIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Barium strontium titanate (BST); Ferroelectric; Intermodulation distortion; Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD); Multilayer ground plane; Paraelectric; Tunable bandpass filter (BPF); Tunable lowpass filter (LPF)

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITORS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

MULTILAYER GROUND PLANE;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 0037292248     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2002.807822     Document Type: Article

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