An electronically tunable microstrip bandpass filter using thin-film Barium-Strontium-Titanate (BST) varactors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2707-2712

  Nath, Jayesh ^a,b,c,d,e   Ghosh, Dipankar ^a,b,c,e,f   Maria, Jon Paul ^a,b   Kingon, Angus I ^a,b   Fathelbab, Wael ^a,b   Franzon, Paul D ^a,b,g   Steer, Michael B ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG)   (United States)

^e International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS)   (United States)

^f AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^g LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Barium strontium titanate (BST); Combline filter; Ferroelectric films; Intermodulation distortion; Microstrip filters; Resonators; Thin film devices; Tunable filters; Varactor

Indexed keywords

BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE (BST); COMBLINE FILTERS (CF); FERROELECTRIC FILMS; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION;

BANDWIDTH; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; INSERTION LOSSES; SAPPHIRE; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; TITANATE MINERALS; VARACTORS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 27744554217     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.854196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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