RF-MEMS Components and Networks for High-Performance Reconfigurable Telecommunication and Wireless Systems

摘要: MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical-Systems) technology applied to the field of Radio Frequency systems (i.e. RF-MEMS) has emerged in last 10-15 years as a valuable and viable solution manufacture low-cost very high-performance passive components, like variable capacitors, inductors micro-relays, well complex networks, tunable filters, reconfigurable impedance matching networks phase shifters, so on. The availability such components their integration within RF (e.g. radio transceivers, radars, satellites, etc.) enables boosting characteristics performance telecommunication systems, addressing for instance significant increase reconfigurability. benefits resulting from employment RF-MEMS are paramount, being some them reduction hardware redundancy power consumption, along with operability same system according multiple standards. After framing more detail whole context technology, this paper will provide brief introduction on typical platform. Subsequently, relevant examples lumped elements be reported measured characteristics.