2017-10-04
Wideband Interdigital Capacitor with Spurious Spikes Suppression
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 71, 1-5, 2017
Abstract
A wideband interdigital capacitor (WIDC) is proposed and verified. By short interconnecting the open ends of interval fingers with microstrip lines etched on PCB bottom layer, the spurious spikes that limit the bandwidth of conventional interdigital capacitor (IDC) are eliminated. The bandwidth and capacitance of IDC increase more than 2800% and 100%, respectively.
Citation
Bo Zhou, Qipeng Wang, Yue Lu, and Chong-Hu Cheng, "Wideband Interdigital Capacitor with Spurious Spikes Suppression," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 71, 1-5, 2017.
doi:10.2528/PIERL17082805
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