• DocumentCode
    3100885
  • Title

    BaSrTiO3-Based 30–88MHz tunable filter

  • Author

    Zhang, Ken ; Watson, Tom ; Cardona, Albert ; Fink, Mike

  • Author_Institution
    Agile RF Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-28 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1492
  • Lastpage
    1495
  • Abstract
    This article presents the operation, design and performance of tunable filter bank based on Agile\´s barium strontium titanate (BST) thin film technology. A novel capacitor array has been designed utilizing a nonlinear BST capacitance model and a capacitor array "stacking" technique. Measurements demonstrate the rejection of tunable filter of > 30dB at ±27% band width, the return loss is <; 10dB over entire operating range, and the minimum third order intercept is greater than 40dBm with switching speeds <; 1ms.
  • Keywords
    barium compounds; capacitors; filters; thin films; BST thin film; BrSrTiO3; barium strontium titanate; capacitor array stacking technique; frequency 30 MHz to 80 MHz; nonlinear BST capacitance model; tunable filter bank; Barium; Binary search trees; Capacitance; Capacitors; Filter bank; Loss measurement; Stacking; Strontium; Titanium compounds; Transistors; BST; IIP3; nonlinear model; tunable filter; tuning speed;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2010 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6056-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0149-645X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.2010.5515504
  • Filename
    5515504