Miniature and tunable filters using MEMS capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1878-1885

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

Filters; MEMS devices; MEMS varactors; Microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Miniature filters; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERMODULATION; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; TUNING; VARACTORS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

FREQUENCY TUNING;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 0042308590     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.814317     Document Type: Article

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