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Design and Characterization Methodology for Efficient Wide Range Tunable MEMS Filters
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Design and Characterization Methodology for Efficient Wide Range Tunable MEMS Filters

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Multilayer dielectric stacks of coupled filters

W W Rigrod

    Applied Optics
    |January 30, 2010
    PubMed

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