Challenges facing microwave filter engineers - RF Cafe Forums

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Post subject: Challenges facing microwave filter engineers Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:04 am
I would really appreciate some insight from the members of this group on the major challenges to be overcome by microwave filter engineers in the future. To some extend I realise that this depends on the intended application. Some of forces presently driving development include: 1) miniaturisation, 2) simplification of design rules, manufacture and circuit layout, 3) improved rate of cut-off and 4) reduced insertion loss. Can anyone add to this list or provide information about the challenges which apply in certain specific applications.

Thanks
James

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Post subject: Microwave FiltersPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:32 pm
I'd add:
1. Passband VSWR control/Passband ripple
2. Repeatability in manufacturing
3. Simplified tuning in manufacturing
4. Phase linearity
5. Spurious responses

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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:06 am
Thank you very much for this reply.

James

Posted 11/12/2012