Bandpass filters for 8 GHz using solidly mounted bulk acoustic wave resonators

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 936-946

  Lanz, Roman ^a   Muralt, Paul ^b  

^a Unaxis Balzers Ltd   (Liechtenstein)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS; CHANNEL BANDWIDTHS; FREQUENY SHIFTS; SHUNT RESONATORS;

ALUMINUM; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FABRICATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; PLATINUM; RESONATORS; THIN FILMS;

ACOUSTIC BULK WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 23244445559     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1504014     Document Type: Article

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