RF-MEMS switches for reconfigurable integrated circuits
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...Brown published a paper in 1998 [ 51 ] with a good comparison of RF switches for re-configurable ICs, such as quasi-optical beam steering and electrically re-configurable antennae....
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...This creates a hysteretic behavior (Brown, 1998; Zavracky and Morrison, 1984), which is inherent for all MEMS switches....
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...The size of the gap can be found by balancing these two forces for an applied voltage and can be written as (Brown, 1998)...
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..., 1999), capacitive (Brown, 1998; Goldsmith et al., 1998; Majumdar et al., 1997; Muldavin and Rebeiz, 2000a, 2000b; Pacheco, Katehi and Nguyen, 2000; Pacheco, Peroulis and Katehi, 2001; Park et al., 2001; Poltz et al., 2001; Rizk et al., 2001; Santos et al., 1997; Sovero et al., 1999; Ulm et al., 2000; Yao et al., 1997) and membrane (Goldsmith et al....
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...In this class, one could consider traditional cantilever and diaphragm type MEMS which can be used as electrostatic microswitch and comb-type capacitors (Brown, 1998)....
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...Following the classical review paper by Brown (1998), the RF MEMS development to date can be classified into the following categories based on whether one takes an RF or MEMS view point: (1) RF extrinsic in which the MEMS structure is located outside the RF circuit and actuates or controls other…...
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...…gate array (FPGA); Filtenna; graph models; graphene; Infra-Red; laser diodes; liquid crystals; micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS); mul- tiple input multiple output (MIMO); neural networks; photo- conductive switches; p-i-n diodes; plasmonics; reconfigurable antennas; thermal switches; varactors...
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...13, in which the phase shifters and other RF electronics are integrated with planar antennas on parallel slats [16]....
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...4(a) and (b) are micrographs of the SPST switches developed at Hughes Research Laboratories (HRL), Malibu, CA, and the Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA [6], respectively....
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