Tunable suspended substrate stripline filters with constant bandwidth

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zahirovic, Nino ^a   Fouladi, Siamak ^a   Mansour, Raafat R ^a   Yu, Ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Research and Development Department   (Canada)

Author keywords

filter design; tunable filters

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH VARIATION; CONSTANT BANDWIDTH; COUPLING MATRIX; COUPLING SCHEME; COUPLING STRUCTURES; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; FILTER DESIGNS; HIGHER ORDER; RETURN LOSS; STRIPLINE FILTERS; SUSPENDED SUBSTRATES; TUNABLE FILTERS; TUNING RANGES; TWO-POLE FILTERS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 80052339876     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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