High-Q narrowband tunable combline bandpass filters using MEMS capacitor banks and piezomotors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 393-402

  Fouladi, Siamak ^a   Huang, Fengxi ^b   Yan, Winter Dong ^c   Mansour, Raafat R ^b  

^a BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Huawei Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combline filter; electronic tuning; high Q; mechanical tuning; piezomotor; RF microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS); tunable filters

Indexed keywords

COMBLINE FILTERS; ELECTRONIC TUNING; HIGH Q; MECHANICAL TUNING; PIEZO-MOTOR; RF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITORS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEMS; MOTORS; POLES;

TUNING;

EID: 84872834294     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2226601     Document Type: Article

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