A vertically integrated micromachined filter Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A 10-GHz filter constructed of slot-coupled micromachined cavities in silicon is presented. The novel character of the filter lies in its structure, which consists of a microstrip feed to cavities via slot apertures and three vertically stacked slot-coupled cavities. The cavities are essentially reduced-height waveguide resonators. The measured results are presented and compared to a finite-element-method model. The simulated model has a bandwidth of 4% with an insertion loss of 0.9 dB at 10.02 GHz. The measured filter yields a 3.7% bandwidth with a deembedded insertion loss of 2.0 dB at 10.01 GHz. Various loss mechanisms are examined to explain the difference between simulated and measured insertion loss.

published proceedings

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Harle, L., & Katehi, L.

citation count

  • 42

complete list of authors

  • Harle, L||Katehi, LPB

publication date

  • September 2002