• DocumentCode
    7882
  • Title

    A Snapshot in Time: The Future in Filters for Cell Phones

  • Author

    Ruby, Rich

  • Author_Institution
    Avago Technol., Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Aug. 2015
  • Firstpage
    46
  • Lastpage
    59
  • Abstract
    The past decades´ phenomenal and rapid growth in cell phone use and, more recently, in smartphone adoption is apparent to everyone. What has not be so clearly articulated is that underlying this growth is a larger growth in the demand for smartphone filters and duplexers. As a result of fourth-generation longterm evolution wireless technology (4G)-and in light of coming fifth-generation (5G) requirements-the number of filters needed in smartphones has exploded.
  • Keywords
    5G mobile communication; mobile handsets; 4G; 5G; cell phone filters; fifth-generation requirements; fourth-generation longterm evolution wireless technology; smartphone adoption; smartphone duplexers; smartphone filters; Cellular phones; Internet; MIMO; Mobile communication; Radio frequency; Resonator filters; TV;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1527-3342
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MMM.2015.2429513
  • Filename
    7153041