A coupled resonator filter is disclosed. The coupled resonator filter is provided with high quality factor, and comprises: a first resonance unit, a second resonance unit and a main adjustment unit. In the present invention, the main adjustment unit is electrically connected between the first resonance unit and the second resonance unit, and comprises an adjustable capacitor. By changing a capacitance of the adjustable capacitor, a coupling coefficient between the first resonance unit and the second resonance unit is adjusted. As a result, the coupled resonator filter of the present invention included advantages of high controllability of the frequency bandwidth and high inhibition rate of noise signal.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, changing a tuning value of a tunable component coupled to an antenna from a first tuning value to a second tuning value during a first stage, and changing the tuning value of the tunable component from the second tuning value to a third tuning value during a second stage that occurs subsequent to the first stage, wherein during each of the first stage and the second stage the antenna is not utilized by a transmitter for communication purposes, wherein the first stage and the second stage are separated from one another by a first active region, and wherein during the first active region the transmitter causes a first signal to be transmitted from the antenna for communication purposes. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A harmonic trap filter suppresses at least one harmonic signal produced by an amplifier and includes an input terminal and a ground terminal. The harmonic trap filter further includes a plurality of resonators electrically coupled one to another between the input terminal and the ground terminal in a spatial order defined by relative phase shift of alternating voltage bias signals respectively applied thereto. The resonators are tuned to resonate at a frequency at which a phase delay is imparted to the at least one harmonic signal by the resonators to effect cancelation of the at least one harmonic signal at the input terminal.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, changing a tuning value of a tunable component coupled to an antenna from a first tuning value to a second tuning value during a first stage, and changing the tuning value of the tunable component from the second tuning value to a third tuning value during a second stage that occurs subsequent to the first stage, wherein during each of the first stage and the second stage the antenna is not utilized by a transmitter for communication purposes, wherein the first stage and the second stage are separated from one another by a first active region, and wherein during the first active region the transmitter causes a first signal to be transmitted from the antenna for communication purposes. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A coupled resonator filter is disclosed. The coupled resonator filter is provided with high quality factor, and comprises: a first resonance unit, a second resonance unit and a main adjustment unit. In the present invention, the main adjustment unit is electrically connected between the first resonance unit and the second resonance unit, and comprises an adjustable capacitor. By changing a capacitance of the adjustable capacitor, a coupling coefficient between the first resonance unit and the second resonance unit is adjusted. As a result, the coupled resonator filter of the present invention included advantages of high controllability of the frequency bandwidth and high inhibition rate of noise signal.

A high frequency multilayer filter may include a plurality of dielectric layers and a signal path having an input and an output. The multilayer filter may include an inductor including a conductive layer formed over a first dielectric layer. The inductor may be electrically connected at a first location with the signal path and electrically connected at a second location with at least one of the signal path or a ground. The multilayer filter may include a capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode that is separated from the first electrode by a second dielectric layer. The multilayer filter has a characteristic frequency that is greater than about 6 GHz.

An LC filter includes a first capacitor electrode connected to one end of a first via conductor and faces a first ground electrode in a laminating direction. A second capacitor electrode is connected to one end of a second via conductor and faces the first ground electrode in the laminating direction. A third capacitor electrode is connected to one end of a third via conductor and faces the first ground electrode in the laminating direction. A fourth capacitor electrode is connected to one end of a fourth via conductor and faces the first ground electrode in the laminating direction. The second capacitor electrode faces each of the first capacitor electrode, the third capacitor electrode, and the fourth capacitor electrode in a direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the laminating direction.

An LC filter includes a first electrode connected to a first via conductor between two ends of the first via conductor, a second electrode connected to a second via conductor between two ends of the second via conductor, a third electrode connected to a third via conductor between two ends of the third via conductor, and a fourth electrode connected to a fourth via conductor between two ends of the fourth via conductor. In a plan view viewed from the laminating direction, the second via conductor and the fourth via conductor are disposed on two sides of a virtual line connecting the first via conductor and the third via conductor, respectively. The second electrode faces the first electrode and the third electrode.

Embodiments of an apparatus that includes a substrate and an inductor residing in the substrate are disclosed. In one embodiment, the inductor is formed as a conductive path that extends from a first terminal to a second terminal. The conductive path has a shape corresponding to a two-dimensional (2D) lobe laid over a three-dimensional (3D) volume. Since the shape of the conductive path corresponds to the 2D lobe laid over a 3D volume, the magnetic field generated by the inductor has magnetic field lines that are predominately destructive outside the inductor and magnetic field lines that are predominately constructive inside the inductor. In this manner, the inductor can maintain a high quality (Q) factor while being placed close to other components.

In one embodiment, a tuning network includes: a controllable capacitance; a first switch coupled between the controllable capacitance and a reference voltage node; a second switch coupled between the controllable capacitance and a third switch; the third switch coupled between the second switch and a second voltage node; a fourth switch coupled between the second voltage node and a first inductor; the first inductor having a first terminal coupled to the fourth switch and a second terminal coupled to at least the second switch; and a second inductor having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the first inductor and a second terminal coupled to the controllable capacitance.