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DuPont 9k7 low-temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) is a low-loss, or high-quality-factor Q, tape system targeting at radio frequency (RF) applications. This paper reports on the effect of a critical process parameter, the heating rate, on the densification and dielectric properties of the 9k7 LTCC. The role of competing densification and crystallization during the sintering of 9k7 is discussed. The high Q of DuPont 9K7 can be used to improve RF system performance, for example a better receiver noise figure, by designing embedded passive RF components such as inductors, capacitors and filters. Furthermore, miniaturized multilayer low-pass filters (LPF) with a wide stopband were fabricated to showcase the technology.

A compact, high-selectivity, and wide stopband lowpass filter is highly demanded in wireless communication systems to suppress adjacent harmonics and unwanted signals. In this letter, a new miniaturized lowpass filter with elliptic-function frequency response is introduced. The filter is fabricated in multilayer low temperature cofired ceramics. The size of the miniaturized filter is 5.5 × 3.9 × 1.72 mm3. The measured insertion loss of the filter is better than 0.37 dB from DC to 1.28 GHz and the measured stopband of the filter is great than 22 dB from 2.3 to 7.5 GHz.

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DuPont 9k7 low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) is a low loss, or high quality factor Q, tape system targeting at radio frequency (RF) applications. This paper reports the effect of a critical process parameter, heating rate, on the densification and dielectric properties of the 9k7 LTCC. The role of competing densification and crystallization during the sintering of 9k7 is discussed. The high Q of DuPont 9K7 can be used to improve RF system performance, for example a better receiver noise figure, by designing embedded passive RF components such as inductors, capacitors and filters. Miniaturized multilayer low pass filters (LPF) with a wide stopband were fabricated to showcase the technology.

A series of SrTiO3 (STO) based temperature compensation dielectrics that were cofireable with the commercial DuPont 951 lowerature cofireable ceramic (LTCC) were developed. The STO30 dielectric with 30 wt% STO showed the highest positive temperature coefficient of resonant frequency (τf) that was opposite to the τf=-69 ppm/°C of the Dupont 951 LTCC, and was selected to design a temperature-compensated four-pole bandpass filter. The filter shows a near zero τf=0.7\) ppm/°C over a temperature range-20 °C to 80 °C. The variance of insertion loss of the filter over the same temperature span is 0.28 dB. The maximum-difference group delay of the filter is 37 pS. The insertion loss included two SMA connectors at 20 °C is greater than 2.45 dB. A general variational method with the transmission-line technique provided an analytical method to calculate the effective dielectric constant and the characteristic impedance of an arbitrary multilayer strip line structure. With this method, the thickness of STO30 compensation dielectric can be optimized to obtain a nearly full temperature compensation for the filter. The electromagnetic simulation results of the filter agreed well with measured data.

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The base dielectrics of commercial low temperature cofired ceramics (LTCC) systems have a temperature coefficient of resonant frequency ({tau}{sub f}) in the range -50 {approx} -80 ppm/C. In this research we explored a method to realize zero or near zero {tau}{sub f} resonators by incorporating {tau}{sub f} compensating materials locally into a multilayer LTCC structure. To select composition for {tau}{sub f} adjustment, {tau}{sub f} compensating materials with different amount of titanates were formulated, synthesized, and characterized. Chemical interactions and physical compatibility between the {tau}{sub f} modifiers and the host LTCC dielectrics were investigated. Studies on stripline (SL) resonator panels with multiple compensating dielectrics revealed that: 1) compositions using SrTiO{sub 3} provide the largest {tau}{sub f} adjustment among titanates, 2) the {tau}{sub f} compensation is proportional to the amount of SrTiO{sub 3} in compensating materials, as well as the thickness of the compensating layer, and 3) the most effective {tau}{sub f} compensation is achieved when the compensating dielectric is integrated next to the SL. Using the effective dielectric constant of a heterogeneous layered dielectric structure, results from Method of Momentum (MoM) electromagnetic simulations are consistent with the experimental observations.

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