Fabrication, Assembly, and Testing of RF MEMS Capacitive Switches Using Flexible Printed Circuit Technology

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 248-254

  Ramadoss, Ramesh ^a   Lee, Simone ^b   Lee, Y C ^b   Bright, V M ^b   Gupta, K C ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

CPW shunt switch; Flexible printed circuits; Kapton E polyimide film; Printed circuit MEMS; RF MEMS switches

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; INSERTION LOSSES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; POLYIMIDES; PRINTED CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES;

FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT PROCESSING;

PACKAGING;

EID: 0142196123     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2003.817968     Document Type: Article

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