A linearity improvement technique for thin-film barium strontium titanate capacitors

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 560-563

  Fu, Jia Shiang ^a   Zhu, Xinen Alfred ^a   Chen, Ding Yuan ^a   Phillips, Jamie D ^a   Mortazawi, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Barium strontium titanate (BST); Ferroelectric; Intermodulation distortion; Linearity; Tunable capacitor

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CAPACITORS; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE (BST); LINEARITY; PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITORS; TUNABLE CAPACITORS;

THIN FILM DEVICES;

EID: 33847711844     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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