A YIG/GGG/GaAs-based magnetically tunable wideband microwave band-pass filter using cascaded band-stop filters

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 3123-3126

  Qiu, Gang ^a   Tsai, Chen S ^a,b   Wang, Bert S T ^c   Zhu, Yun ^a  

^a Irvine   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Wang NMR Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass filters; Bandstop filters; Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR); Tunable filters; Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) filters

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350586060     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002780     Document Type: Article

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