• DocumentCode
    2755687
  • Title

    Lateral DC contact RF MEMS switch with fine gap combs

  • Author

    Kang, Sungchan ; Kim, Hyeon Cheol ; Chun, Kukjin

  • Author_Institution
    Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    Oct. 30 2007-Nov. 2 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We developed lateral DC contact RF MEMS switch using combs. Our goal was to fabricate RF MEMS switch with high reliability and good RF characteristics for FEM module in wireless transceiver system. Therefore, we used silicon substrate for combs in order to achieve big contact force, small off-state capacitance, and high reliability. As a result, our switch showed insertion loss less than 0.44 dB at 2 GHz, isolation greater than 60 dB, and low actuation voltage at 26 V.
  • Keywords
    microswitches; reliability; transceivers; FEM module; RF MEMS switch; insertion loss; lateral DC contact; reliability; wireless transceiver; Capacitance; Contacts; Electrostatics; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency microelectromechanical systems; Silicon; Switches; Teeth; Transceivers; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    TENCON 2007 - 2007 IEEE Region 10 Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1272-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1272-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TENCON.2007.4429090
  • Filename
    4429090