Design and testing of a thermally stable filter using bimetal compensation

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1293-1296

  Keats, Brian F ^a   Mansour, Raafat R ^a   Gorbet, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cavities; Cavity perturbation methods; Cavity resonator filters; Chebyshev filters; Temperature compensation; Thermal factors; Waveguide discontinuities

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BIMETALS; RESONATORS;

CAVITY PERTURBATION METHODS; CAVITY RESONATOR FILTERS; CHEBYSHEV FILTERS; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION; THERMAL FACTORS; WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 34748926361     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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