• DocumentCode
    1807176
  • Title

    A new method of designing MEMS class E amplifier

  • Author

    Gu, H.M. ; Gao, B.X. ; Liang, C.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    19-21 Dec. 2002
  • Firstpage
    261
  • Lastpage
    263
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the design and fabrication of metal contact MEMS switches for high efficiency Class E amplifier application. The efficiency of the amplifier is 64.3%, which agrees well with the simulation result. With properly selecting the metal contact MEMS switch, the amplifier efficiency may reach up to 99%. To our knowledge, this result presents the first published performance of Class-E amplifier using MEMS switch.
  • Keywords
    amplifiers; microswitches; amplifier efficiency; designing MEMS class E amplifier; metal contact MEMS switches; Contacts; Design methodology; Fabrication; Frequency; Micromechanical devices; Microswitches; Power amplifiers; Silicon; Switches; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Electronics, 2002. Proceedings. ICSE 2002. IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7578-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SMELEC.2002.1217820
  • Filename
    1217820