High-Q tunable filters: Challenges and potential

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 70-82

  Mansour, Raafat R ^a   Huang, Fengxi ^a   Fouladi, Siamak ^a   Yan, Winter Dong ^a   Nasr, Mitra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; LOADING;

COMMUNICATION TOWERS; HARDWARE RESOURCES; INSTALLATION LOCATIONS; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; THIRD-GENERATION (3G) NETWORKS; WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURES; WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84904317518     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2014.2321101     Document Type: Article

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