An LTCC balanced-to-unbalanced extracted-pole bandpass filter with complex load

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1512-1518

  Yeung, Lap Kun ^a,b   Wu, Ke Li ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Balun; Bandpass filter; Low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC); Resonator filter

Indexed keywords

BALUN; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMIC (LTCC); RESONATOR FILTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; RESONATORS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33645930050     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.871363     Document Type: Article

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