A 25-75-MHz RF MEMS tunable filter

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2399-2405

  Entesari, Kamran ^a,b   Obeidat, Khaled ^a,c   Brown, Andrew R ^a,d   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d A R Brown Design   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); RF MEMS; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESOLUTION; LUMPED-ELEMENT FILTERS; SWITCH LOSS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITORS; INSERTION LOSSES; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MEMS; TUNING;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

EID: 36649016228     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.908674     Document Type: Article

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