High-performance 1.52.5-ghz rf-mems tunable filters for wireless applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1629-1637

  El Tanani, Mohammed A ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alumina; Combline filter; Constant bandwidth tunable filter; Miniature planar filter; RF microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS); Tunable filter

Indexed keywords

COMBLINE FILTERS; PLANAR FILTERS; RF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; TUNABLE FILTER; TUNABLE FILTERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; MECHATRONICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; TUNING;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS;

EID: 77953621236     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2049166     Document Type: Article

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