A high performance MEMS miniature tunable bandpass filter

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1785-1788

  Abbaspour Tamijani, Abbas ^a   Dussopt, Laurent ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

MEMS Filters; MEMS varactors; Microelectromechanical devices; Miniature Filters; Tunable Filters

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INSERTION LOSSES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; VARACTORS; WAVEGUIDES;

MINIATURE FILTERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 0041589785     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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