Ladder shaped RF mems switch for wireless application

  • Authors

    • Aamir Saud Khan
    • T Shanmuganantham
    2018-06-08
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.33.15551
  • Actuation Voltage, Cantilever Beam, Insertion Loss, Isolation Loss, RF MEMS

  • This paper analyses the different position of actuation electrode in an inline ladder shaped cantilever beam Radio Frequency (RF) Microelec-tromechanical System (MEMS) switch, which shows very good RF parameters over the range of (0-50) GHz along with low actuation voltage. The switch is designed and simulated by software Intellisuite 8.7v for electromechanical analysis and by EM software for RF anal-ysis. From the simulated results, they obtained a low actuation voltage (2 V). It shows a very less insertion loss -0.008 dB at 8 GHz and high isolation loss –100 dB at 8 GHz.

     

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    Saud Khan, A., & Shanmuganantham, T. (2018). Ladder shaped RF mems switch for wireless application. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.33), 998-1001. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.33.15551