Organic "Wafer-Scale" Packaged Miniature 4-bit RF MEMS Phase Shifter

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1229-1236

  Kingsley, Nickolas ^a,b   Papapolymerou, John ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c URSI   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal polymer (LCP); Miniature; Multibit; Organic; Packaged; Phase shifter; Reduced size; RF microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); System on package (SOP); Tree junction; Wafer scale

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER (LCP); MINIATURE; MULTIBIT; ORGANIC; PACKAGED; PHASE SHIFTER; REDUCED SIZE; RF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS); SYSTEM-ON-PACKAGE (SOP); TREE JUNCTION;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PERMITTIVITY; POLYMERS;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 33644989750     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.864099     Document Type: Article

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