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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Enhanced Robustness of a Bridge-Type Rf-Mems Switch for Enabling Applications in 5G and 6G Communications.

Jasmina Casals-Terré, Lluís Pradell, Julio César Heredia, Flavio Giacomozzi, Jacopo Iannacci, Adrián Contreras, Miquel Ribó

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Jasmina Casals-TerréDepartment Mechanical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), C/Colom 7-11, 08222 Terrassa, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1368-3950
Lluís PradellDepartment Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), C/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4026-226X
Julio César HerediaDepartment Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), C/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Flavio GiacomozziFondazione Bruno Kessler-FBK, Via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6009-0103
Jacopo IannacciFondazione Bruno Kessler-FBK, Via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6462-4814
Adrián ContrerasQorvo Inc., 1818 S Orange Blossom Trail, Apopka, FL 32703, USA.
Miquel RibóElectronics and Telecommunications Department, La Salle-Ramon Llull University (URL), C/Sant Joan de La Salle, 42 08022 Barcelona, Spain.

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Spain PID2019-107885GB-C31/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and PID2020-114070RB-I00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, new suspended-membrane double-ohmic-contact RF-MEMS switch configurations are proposed. Double-diagonal (DDG) beam suspensions, with either two or three anchoring points, are designed and optimized to minimize membrane deformation due to residual fabrication stresses, thus exhibiting smaller mechanical deformation and a higher stiffness with more release force than previously designed single diagonal beam suspensions. The two-anchor DDGs are designed in two different orientations, in-line and 90°-rotated. The membrane may include a window to minimize the coupling to the lower electrode. The devices are integrated in a coplanar-waveguide transmission structure and fabricated using an eight-mask surface-micro-machining process on high-resistivity silicon, with dielectric-free actuation electrodes, and including glass protective caps. The RF-MEMS switch behavior is assessed from measurements of the device S parameters in ON and OFF states. The fabricated devices feature a measured pull-in voltage of 76.5 V/60 V for the windowed/not-windowed two-anchor DDG membranes, and 54 V/49.5 V for the windowed/not-windowed three-anchor DDG membranes, with a good agreement with mechanical 3D simulations. The measured ON-state insertion loss is better than 0.7 dB/0.8 dB and the isolation in the OFF state is better than 40 dB/31 dB up to 20 GHz for the in-line/90°-rotated devices, also in good agreement with 2.5D electromagnetic simulations.

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beam suspensioncoplanar-waveguideRF-MEMS switch

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PMID36433499
PMCPMC9697462

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