High-Q HF Microelectromechanical Filters

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 512-526

  Bannon, Frank D ^a   Clark, John R ^b   Nguyen, Clark T C ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass; filter; high Q; IF; insertion loss; MEMS; micromechanical

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048107     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.839911     Document Type: Article

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