Design of an LTCC Tri-band transceiver module for GPRS mobile applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2718-2724

  Lin, Yo Shen ^a   Liu, Chien Chang ^b   Li, Ko Mai ^b   Chen, Chun Hsiung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Hardware Design Department   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ceramic; General packet radio service (GPRS); Low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC); Module; Transceiver

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LOW PASS FILTERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FREQUENCY BANDS; GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE (GPRS); LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS (LTCC); MODULES;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 10944228144     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.838292     Document Type: Article

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