Design of low-temperature co-fired ceramic bandpass filters with modified coupled inductors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 172-179

  Tang, Ching Wen ^a   Shen, Che Wei ^a   Hsieh, Ping Ju ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b VIA Technologies Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; Low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC); Modified coupled inductors

Indexed keywords

COUPLED INDUCTOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC DESIGNS; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMIC BANDPASS FILTERS; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS; MEASURED RESULTS; MULTI-LAYERED; PASS BANDS; TRANSMISSION ZEROS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COUPLED CIRCUITS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 77949540788     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2009034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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