Miniaturized multi-band filter banks for extravehicular radio (EVA) applications

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 171-174

  Stephanou, Philip J ^a   Black, Justin P ^a   Benjamin, Andrew L ^b  

^a Harmonic Devices Inc   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AlN; Bandpass filter; Contour mode; Piezoelectric; Resonator; RF MEMS

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FILTER BANKS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT METALS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NASA; NITRIDES; POWER GENERATION; RADIO WAVES; RESONATORS; TOPOLOGY; WAVE FILTERS;

ALN; ALUMINUM NITRIDE; BAND FILTERS; BANDPASS FILTER; CONTOUR MODE; DESIGN EFFORTS; DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL COUPLING COEFFICIENT; EXTRA-VEHICULAR ACTIVITY; FAULT-TOLERANT; LUMPED PARAMETER MODEL; MEAS URED RESULTS; MICRO-ELECTRO- MECHANICAL SYSTEM; MOTIONAL RESISTANCE; MULTI BANDS; PIEZOELECTRIC; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RESONATOR; RF MEMS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 51849167341     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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