Tunable VHF miniaturized helical filters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 282-289

  Psychogiou, Dimitra ^a   Peroulis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; capacitive loading; helical resonator; tunable filter; UHF; VHF

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAVITY RESONATORS;

CAPACITIVE LOADING; HELICAL RESONATORS; TUNABLE FILTERS; UHF; VHF;

LOADING;

EID: 84894575620     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2294592     Document Type: Article

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