Design of narrow-band DBR planar filters in Si-BCB technology for millimeter-wave applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1045-1051

  Prigent, Gaetan ^a   Rius, Eric ^a   Le Pennec, François ^a   Le Maguer, Sandrick ^a   Quendo, Cédric ^a   Six, Gonzague ^b   Happy, Henri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; Millimeter wave applications; Silicon technology; U and W frequency band

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INSERTION LOSSES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BENZOCYCLOBUTENE; MILLIMETER WAVE APPLICATIONS; NARRO BANDPASS PLANAR FILTERS; SILICON BASED TECHNOLOGY;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 1842474682     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.823581     Document Type: Article

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