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Design and Simulation of a Novel Low-Voltage RF MEMS Switch for Reconfigurable Antennas

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Advances in System-Integrated Intelligence (SYSINT 2022)

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The demand for high-speed networks is increasing in telecommunications and portable devices. In this work, an RF MEMS switch is designed to be integrated into reconfigurable antennas for 5G applications in the 1–6 GHz frequency range. The proposed electrostatic RF MEMS switch requires a very low operating voltage of 3.1 V. In addition, the switch achieves an insertion loss of −0.0085 to −0.0118 dB and an isolation of −46.2 to −31.5 dB in the frequency range 1–6 GHz.

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  1. Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics Engineering Department, UST at Zewail City, Giza, 12578, Egypt

    Alaa Elshazly, Mario Mounir, Muhammad K. Khalaf, Yasmine Elogail & Hassan Mostafa

  2. Optoelectronic Components and Devices Research Unit, CDTA, 16081, Alger, Algeria

    Faycal Saffih

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Elshazly, A., Mounir, M., Khalaf, M.K., Saffih, F., Elogail, Y., Mostafa, H. (2023). Design and Simulation of a Novel Low-Voltage RF MEMS Switch for Reconfigurable Antennas. In: Valle, M., et al. Advances in System-Integrated Intelligence. SYSINT 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 546. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16281-7_67

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