Circuital modelling of shunt capacitive rf MEMS switches

2008 European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference, EuMIC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 362-365

  Bartolucci, Giancarlo ^a   Marcelli, Romolo ^b   Catoni, Simone ^b   Margesin, Benno ^c   Giacomozzi, Flavio ^c   Lucibello, Andrea ^b   Mulloni, Viviana ^c   Farinelli, Paola ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ITC IRST   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; NEW MODEL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RF-MEMS; SHUNT CAPACITIVE;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SWITCHES;

MEMS;

EID: 66649119164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMICC.2008.4772304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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