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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 7, July 2000

A Varactor-Tuned RF Filter

Page 1157.

Abstract:

An electronically tunable filter at 1 GHz is presented in this paper. The filter uses a suspended substrate design and commercially available varactors for filter tuning. The filter has a 60% tuning range from 700 MHz to 1.33 GHz with a low insertion loss (better than 3 dB from 1 to 1.33 GHz). This paper discusses the effects of the varactor series resistance and the electrical length of the distributed resonator on the overall resonator quality factor and filter insertion loss. The input third-order intermodulation product intercept point was measured to be better than 17 dBm across the entire tuning range.

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