Title :
RLC active filters with electronically tunable centre frequency and quality factor
Author :
Pipilos, S. ; Tsividis, Yannis
Author_Institution :
Div. of Comput. Sci., Athens Nat. Tech. Univ.
fDate :
3/17/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Letter discusses techniques for the electronic tuning of inductors and capacitors, and for the active compensation of their losses and thus the enhancement of their quality factors. Applications to integrated RLC filters using on-chip inductors are considered
Keywords :
Q-factor; active filters; band-pass filters; bipolar integrated circuits; compensation; linear integrated circuits; microwave filters; radiofrequency filters; tuning; 1 to 1.61 GHz; RLC active filters; active loss compensation; bipolar transistor transconductors; capacitor tuning; centre frequency tuning; electronic tuning; inductor tuning; integrated RLC filters; microwave range; on-chip inductors; quality factor; second order bandpass RLC filter;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940323
