… issues hampering capacitive RF MEMS switches in their … It is concluded that viable
capacitive RF MEMS switches with … number of dielectric-less MEMS switch designs. However, a …

… have designed and analysed a capacitive shunt RF MEMS switch with low actuation voltage
and low insertion losses and high isolation. Here, a novel step-down switch is proposed to …

… designed in this paper is a electrostatically actuated vertically deflective shunt capacitive
RF MEMS switch. Therefore, the switch requiring an actuation voltage of 5.5V to get 1.8 µm …

… RF MEMS devices need to be explored in order to better define in what applications RF MEMS
switches … and resulting reliability of capacitive MEMS switches at various RF power levels. …

… failure of RF-MEMS capacitive switches was … of RF-MEMS switches [1]. Later, in [2], it has
been shown that measuring the drift in pull-in/pull-out voltages of a capacitive RF-MEMS switch …

… ABSTRACT - The first experimental characterization of dielectric charging within capacitive
RF MEMS switches has been demonstrated. Standard devices have been inserted into a …

… A typical example of a capacitive RF MEMS switch is shown in figure 1. It consists of a
freestanding plate suspended by beams above a coplanar waveguide (CPW). Under this ‘bridge’, …

… Capacitive MEMS switch operation A typical capacitive RF MEMS switch consists of a
fixed–fixed thin metallic membrane suspended over a bottom electrode insulated by a dielectric …

… This paper reports a novel capacitive RF-MEMS switch. The presented device has frequency
reconfigurable characteristics and thus can be used in multi-band wireless systems. The …

… 1 shows the top view and the cross-sectional view of the shunt capacitive RF MEMS switch
implemented using the standard 0.35- m CMOS process. The switch consists of a coplanar …