Electrical Filters Synthesis, Design and Applications

This book is one of the most basic and fundamental handbooks written on electrical filters, ranging from networks and synthesis to the design and physical reliability. Lumped and distributed element filters, hybrids, active and acoustical filters are covered. The meaning of poles and zeros in the frequency plane, and corresponding network behavior are reviewed. Filter-circuit designs of low, high-band-pass and band-rejection are discussed, along with insertion loss and component characteristics in- clouding leakage resistance and parasitic behavior at VHF and UHF. The chapter on physical reliability of filters helps prevent the designer from selecting components that are not physically realizable. Selecting inductors which have parasitic capacitance- resonance and capacitors with too much pigtail inductance are avoided. Alignment and measurement techniques are discussed for multistage filter tuning.