Hybrid LTCC filter

The major advantage of the hybrid LTCC filter concept is the cost efficiency for small and medium volumes combined with a high scale of integration. Designs can be tailored to the specific application and produced on typical... 

Muller, J., Design considerations for hybrid LTCC-RF-Filters, Proceedings of the Ceramic Interconnect Conference, Denver, CO, April 2003. 

Integration of passives in LTCC is also used to build components. Several elements can be combined in a multilayer structure to achieve a specific electrical function (e.g., a band-pass filter). These small-sized components have terminations allowing surface-moimt assembly operations (land grid, castellation, or ball grid array [BGA]). Depending on the nature of diese passive multicomponent devices, they are referred as monolithic (only LTCC elements) or hybrid [58] (mixture of embedded components and additional surface-mounted elements). Reasons for not implementing all passives in the hybrid type are ... 

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