A broadband single-stage equivalent circuit for modeling LTCC bandpass filters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4412-4421

  Tsai, Yu Shun ^b   Horng, Tzyy Sheng ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Equivalent circuit model; Low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC) bandpass filter (BPF); Wideband local area network (WLAN) BPF

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODELS; LOW TEMPERATURE CO FIRED CERAMIC (LTCC) BANDPASS FILTER (BPF); MULTILAYER RESONATORS; PASSBAND FREQUENCY;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; RESONATORS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 33847758315     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.883603     Document Type: Article

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