SAW, CERAMIC filters question?
Insertion Loss is not that important in this matter, only a high Q filter.
The band is quite narrow <1%. used in 2-3 GHz.
I need some suggestions on reading material for designing ceramic etc. or maybe some tips on simulating with ADS or HFSS.
I will appriatiate any kind of help
The SAW filters uses very special and hard to find materials , some ones are chemists compound made specyficaly to this porpouse.
I think that is very dificult made any filter without a high level chemistry laboratory.
The filters used in wifi are in the net (http://www.qsl.net/dk1ag/saw_lit.html)
(http://www.murata.com/catalog/p06e3.pdf#search='saw%20filters%20construction%20p df')
I am mostly interested in ceramic actually. I am only going to do simulations and so on. Are there any alternatives as well?
You are going to have trouble with such a narrow bandwidth and high center frequency. Manufacturing tolerances will be a problem. So will temperature sensitivity.
Can you do your filtering at a lower frequency as in superheterodyne topologies?
