A passband-corrected high rejection channel-select micromechanical disk filter

IFCS 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Akgul, Mehmet ^a   Nguyen, Clark T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

capacitive gap transducer; frequency tuning; mechanical circuit; MEMS resonator; quality factor; RF channel selection; small gap; wireless communications

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SENSOR NETWORKS; TRANSDUCERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FREQUENCY-TUNING; MEMS RESONATORS; QUALITY FACTORS; RF CHANNEL-SELECTION; SMALL GAPS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84906877084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FCS.2014.6860009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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