Layered Al2O3-TiO2 composite dielectric resonators
Aluminium oxide displays a very low tanδ at microwave frequencies. It also possesses a remarkably high thermal conductivity, ideal for heat dissipation in high power satellite filters. However, its temperature coefficient of the resonant frequency (τf) is approximately –60 ppm/K. It is shown that the application of a film of titanium oxide which has a τf of opposite sign (450 ppm/K) produces a composite in which the τf can be tuned to be zero over a wide temperature range. The tanδ of the composite at zero τf is 3.3 × 10-5 (Q = 30000) at room temperature and at 10 GHz.