Techniques for isolation between filters using inductive coupling cancellation are disclosed. An apparatus includes a first filter including a first plurality of inductors and a second filter including a second plurality of inductors. The first and second filters are implemented physically adjacent to one another. First and second ones of the first plurality of inductors and a first one of the second plurality of inductors are polarized in a first direction, while a second one of the second plurality of inductors is polarized in a second direction opposite that of the first direction. The second one of the second plurality of inductors is physically adjacent to one of the first and second ones of the first plurality of inductors such that magnetic coupling currents induced into one another are canceled.

Systems and methods for generating a radio frequency (RF) signal by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with transmission frequency within a wide transmission frequency range are described. An output reactance of the DAC coupled (directly or indirectly) to one or more antennas corresponds to the transmission frequency of the RF signals. Multiple embodiments of the DAC are described to include circuitry for tuning the output reactance of the DAC, and therefore, shifting a center frequency to select a transmission frequency range (from multiple transmission frequency ranges) for providing the RF signals.

An electronic component includes a first main body including a plurality of dielectric layers stacked together, and a second main body mounted to the first main body. The second main body includes a first circuit section and a second circuit section that are each constituted by using at least one acoustic wave element and are electrically separated from each other. The first main body includes first to third ground conductor lavers located between the first and second circuit sections when seen in a Z direction.

A hybrid resonator includes an acoustic wave resonator (AWR) having a piezoelectric material; a first electrical contact, electrically conductively connected to the piezoelectric material; and a second electrical contact, electrically conductively connected to the piezoelectric material. The hybrid resonator further includes a first resonant circuit, electrically conductively connected in series or parallel to the acoustic wave resonator via at least one of the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact. The resonant circuit includes a first inductor, and a first capacitor; wherein, if the first resonant circuit is electrically conductively connected to the acoustic wave resonator in series, the first inductor and the first capacitor are electrically conductively connected to one another in parallel, and if the first resonant circuit is electrically conductively connected to the acoustic wave resonator in parallel, the first inductor and the first capacitor are electrically conductively connected to one another in series.

An electronic component includes a stack, a first inductor, a second inductor, a third inductor, and a shield conductor. The shield conductor includes a first conductor part provided on a side surface of the stack and a second conductor part provided on a side surface of the stack. The electronic component further includes a first connecting conductor that connects two columnar conductors of the first inductor and the first conductor part, a second connecting conductor that connects two columnar conductors of the second inductor and the second conductor part, and a third connecting conductor that connects two columnar conductors of the third inductor and the first conductor part.

An electronic component includes a capacitor having a desired capacitance value and a laminate including a plurality of laminated insulating material layers. Land electrodes are provided on a bottom surface of the laminate. Internal conductors face the land electrodes, respectively, across the insulating material layer within the laminate, have areas larger than those of the land electrodes, respectively, and contain the land electrodes, respectively, when seen in a planar view from a z-axis direction. A capacitor conductor is provided on the positive direction side of the capacitor conductors in the z-axis direction and faces the capacitor conductors.

What is specified is a combined impedance matching and RF filter circuit having improved impedance matching in conjunction with good frequency-tunability of the filter circuit. The circuit comprises a reactance elimination circuit for reducing the reactance and a tunable RF filter circuit, which is frequency-tunable and can carry out a resistance matching.

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for a tunable filter. In some example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus. In some example embodiments, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus may include a tunable radio frequency filter including a tunable phase shifter coupled to a resonator, wherein the tunable phase shifter tunes a center frequency of the tunable radio frequency filter by at least varying a phase of a radio frequency signal provided to the resonator. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.

A reconfigurable RF filter, which includes a first resonator, a second resonator, and a first coupling circuit, is disclosed. The first coupling circuit is coupled between the first resonator and the second resonator. The reconfigurable RF filter operates in one of a group of operating modes, which include a first operating mode and a second operating mode. During the first operating mode, the reconfigurable RF filter is a bandpass filter having a first bandwidth and a first insertion loss via the first resonator. During the second operating mode, the reconfigurable RF filter is a bandpass filter having a second bandwidth and a second insertion loss via the first resonator, such that the first bandwidth is greater than the second bandwidth and the first insertion loss is less than the second insertion loss.

Embodiments of radio frequency (RF) filtering circuitry are disclosed. In one embodiment, the RF filtering circuitry includes a first port, a second port, a first RF filter path, and a second RF filter path. The first RF filter path is connected between the first port and the second port and includes at least a pair of weakly coupled resonators. The weakly coupled resonators are configured such that a first transfer response between the first port and the second port defines a first passband. The second RF filter path is coupled to the first RF filter path and is configured such that the first transfer response between the first port and the second port defines a stopband adjacent to the first passband without substantially increasing ripple variation of the first passband defined by the first transfer response.