Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Bandpass Filters With Continuously Tunable Center Frequency and Bandwidth

This paper presents a comparison and performance evaluation of three different technologies for the implementation of tunable filters utilizing semiconductor varactors, commercially available barium strontium titanate (BST) thin film and screen-printed BST thick-film varactors. To identify the most suitable technology for applications in low power receiving up to high-power transmitting stages, th...