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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
Volume 55, Issue 11, Pages 2399-2405Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.908674
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microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); RF MEMS; tunable filters
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This paper presents a state-of-the-art discrete RF microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) tunable filter designed for 25-75-MHz operation. This paper also presents an enhanced model of the RF MEMS switch, which is used for accurate prediction of the tunable filter response. The two-pole lumped-element filter is based on digital capacitor banks with on-chip metal-contact RF MEMS switches and lumped inductors, and results in a tuning range of 3: 1 with fine frequency resolution, and a return loss better than 13 dB for the entire tuning range. The relative bandwidth of the filter is 4 +/- 1% over the tuning range and the insertion loss is 3-5 dB, limited mostly by the inductor Q and the switch loss. The IIP3 measurements prove that tunable filters with metal-contact series RF MEMS switches show extremely linear behavior IIP3 > 68 dBm).
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