Substrate integrated evanescent-mode cavity filter with a 3.5 to 1 tuning ratio

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 450-452

  Moon, Sungwook ^a   Sigmarsson, Hjalti H ^a   Joshi, Himanshu ^a   Chappell, William J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evanescent mode cavity; RF packaging; tunable filter; wireless communication

Indexed keywords

CAVITY FILTERS; FLEXIBLE MEMBRANES; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; PIEZOELECTRIC DISC; RF PACKAGING; TUNABLE FILTERS; TUNING RATIO; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE; WIDE TUNING; WIDELY TUNABLE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; TUNING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES;

EID: 77955579004     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2010.2050680     Document Type: Article

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