Novel microstrip fed mechanically tunable combline cavity filter

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 578-580

  Kurudere, Sinan ^a   Erturk, Vakur B ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Harmonic suppression; tunable combline filters (TCFs)

Indexed keywords

CAVITY FILTERS; CIRCUIT STRUCTURES; COMBLINE BANDPASS FILTER; COMBLINE FILTERS; FABRICATION PROCESS; HARMONIC SUPPRESSION; MEASURED RESULTS; PROTOTYPE FILTERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SCREWS;

PRINTED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84888136588     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2013.2281432     Document Type: Article

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