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| Title: | On the design of an Ohmic RF MEMS switch for reconfigurable microstrip antenna applications |
| Authors: | Spasos, M
Charalampidis, N
Mallios, N
Kampitaki, D
Tsiakmakis, K
Soel, P
Nilavalan, R |
| Keywords: | RF
MEMS
Design |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society |
| Citation: | WSEAS Transactions On Communications. 8 (1) 153-161 |
| Series/Report no.: | 8;1 |
| Abstract: | This paper presents the analysis, design and simulation of a direct contact (dc) RF MEMS switch specified for reconfigurable microstrip array antennas. The proposed switch is indented to be built on PCB via a monolithic technology together with the antenna patches. The proposed switch will be used to allow antenna beamforming in the operating frequency range between 2GHz and 4GHz. This application requires a great number of these switches to be integrated with an array of microstrip patch elements. The proposed switch fulfills the switching characteristics as concerns the five requirements (loss, linearity, voltage/power handling, small size/power consumption, temperature), following a relatively simple design, which ensures reliability, robustness and high fabrication yield |
| URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3914 |
| ISSN: | 1109-2742 |
| Appears in Collections: | School of Engineering and Design Research papers
Electronic and Computer Engineering
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