A novel tunable band-pass filter using MEMS technology

Author

Zhang, N.-B. ; Deng, Z.L. ; Huang, J.-M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

20-23 June 2010

Firstpage

1510

Lastpage

1515

Abstract

This paper presents a band-pass tunable filter (BPF) within frequency ranges of 13-20GHz and it shows good stop rejection and sharp roll off frequency. It used a novel design to turn the resonant frequency by micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) switch and coplanar-waveguide (CPW) structures. The DC voltage is utilized to load RF-MEMS switch as source of the tunable cell´s power. The simulation obtained by HFSS and ADS tool shows that insertion loss is less than 1dB in pass-band and return loss is greater than 10 in the stop band.

Keywords

band-pass filters; coplanar waveguides; microswitches; microwave filters; MEMS technology; RF-MEMS switch; band-pass tunable filter; coplanar-waveguide structures; micro-electromechanical systems switch; resonant frequency; tunable band-pass filter; Band pass filters; Insertion loss; Microelectromechanical systems; Micromechanical devices; Microswitches; Microwave filters; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency microelectromechanical systems; Switches; Tunable circuits and devices; Band-pass filter (BPF); Radio frequency Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); Tunable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Automation (ICIA), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5701-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICINFA.2010.5512025

Filename

5512025