Tuning in to RF MEMS

GM Rebeiz, K Entesari, IC Reines… - IEEE microwave …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RF MEMS technology was initially developed as a … , all make it the ideal tuning device for
reconfigurable filters, … same level-if not higher-than RF MEMS phase shifters, and in our …

RF MEMS from a device perspective

JJ Yao - Journal of micromechanics and microengineering, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
… This reversed capacitance tuning with an increasing tuning voltage lowering the RF
capacitance mimics the behaviour of varactor diodes, and thus minimizes the number of changes …

RF MEMS‐based tunable filters

J Brank, J Yao, M Eberly, A Malczewski… - … Journal of RF and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… , while the bandwidth increased as the center frequency was tuned higher. This resulted in
the filter having less insertion loss at the highest tuning state than at the lowest tuning state. …

RF MEMS electrostatically actuated tunable capacitors and their applications: a review

F Khan, MI Younis - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… tunable capacitor based tunable filters provide excellent performance in terms of tuning
range and quality factor. Many other papers also reported utilizing MBTC for designing high …

RF MEMS inductors and their applications—A review

OF Hikmat, MSM Ali - … of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… self-resonance frequency, and tuning range. This will provide … most common RF MEMS
inductors applications, including RF … the best fabrication and tuning approaches inferred from the …

Handling RF power: The latest advances in RF-MEMS tunable filters

P Blondy, D Peroulis - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This paper discusses the latest advances in this area on both continuously tunable RF-MEMS
devices, and digital-like tuned devices. While the emphasis of coverage is on fundamental …

RF MEMS variable capacitors for tunable filters

CL Goldsmith, A Malczewski, ZJ Yao… - … Journal of RF and …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… this RF MEMs device can be changed over a significant capacitance range. The RF MEMs
… This is a key ingredient to designing filters that are electronically tuned by varying RF MEMs

[PDF][PDF] X-band RF MEMS tuned combline filter

CD Nordquist, CL Goldsmith, CW Dyck… - Electronics …, 2005 - researchgate.net
… filter tuning from 8.2 to 11.3 GHz using RF MEMS switched … % tuning with 11% 3 dB bandwidth
for the four tuning states … Radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS) …

RF MEMS tunable capacitors with large tuning ratio

TGSM Rijks, JTM Van Beek… - … . Maastricht MEMS …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… for the development of RF MEMS an industrialized low-cost … For the realization of RF
MEMS, the standard process has … approach to manufacture RF MEMS switches and variable …

A 25–75-MHz RF MEMS Tunable Filter

K Entesari, K Obeidat, AR Brown… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… switches and lumped inductors, and results in a tuning range of 3 : 1 with fine frequency …
MEMS microrelays have been reported in [6] and [7]. This paper presents a two-pole RF MEMS