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2011-11-21
Experimental Investigations on a Surface Micromachined Tunable Low Pass Filter
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Vittal Janardhana,

    Dr. Vittal Janardhana

    ECE Department

    Birla Institute of Technology

    India

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Naga Sayanu Pamidighantam,

    Dr. Naga Sayanu Pamidighantam

    Jain Group of Institutions

    India

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Neela Chattoraj,

    Dr. Neela Chattoraj

    Electronics and Communication Engineering Department

    Birla Institute of Technology

    India

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Jibendu Sekhar Roy,

    Professor Jibendu Sekhar Roy

    Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department

    Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University

    India

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Srinivasa Kuppireddi,

    Mr. Srinivasa Kuppireddi

    Department of Informatics

    University of Oslo

    Norway

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Raghavendra Govindra Kulkarni

    Dr. Raghavendra Govindra Kulkarni

    Bharat Electronics Ltd.

    India

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 27, 171-178, 2011
doi:10.2528/PIERL11081803 | Google Scholar

Abstract
In this paper, a surface micromachined microwave tunable low pass filter, consisting of tunable shunt capacitors and series inductors, has been realized. The filter exhibits insertion loss of less than 1 dB (up to 10 GHz), stop band attenuation of 20 dB at 20 GHz, and cut-off frequency is changed to 8 GHz with the application of DC actuation voltage in the structure. The filter has an overall dimension of 5.5 mm x 2 mm. The characteristics of tunable filter are investigated with and without packaging.
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Vittal Janardhana, Naga Sayanu Pamidighantam, Neela Chattoraj, Jibendu Sekhar Roy, Srinivasa Kuppireddi, and Raghavendra Govindra Kulkarni, "Experimental Investigations on a Surface Micromachined Tunable Low Pass Filter," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 27, 171-178, 2011.
doi:10.2528/PIERL11081803
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