A miniature 8-16 GHz packaged tunable frequency and bandwidth RF MEMS filter

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology, RFIT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 249-252

  Lee, Kok Yan ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^b  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguide filter; Digital capacitor bank; Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); Quasi lumped filter; RF MEMS; Wideband tunable filter

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; DIGITAL CAPACITOR BANKS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; RF-MEMS; WIDE-BAND TUNABLE FILTERS;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMECHANICAL FILTERS; MECHATRONICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS;

EID: 77951433230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIT.2009.5383729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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