Design of vertically stacked waveguide filters in LTCC

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1771-1778

  Shen, Tze Min ^b   Chen, Chi Feng ^b   Huang, Ting Yi ^b   Wu, Ruey Beei ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; Cavity; Coupling coefficient; Low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC); Quasi elliptic function; Stacked vias

Indexed keywords

MULTILAYERS; RESONATORS; STACKING FAULTS; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

BANDPASS WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; WAVEGUIDE RESONATORS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 34547988346     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.902080     Document Type: Article

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