Performance of an enclosed MEMS mounted shunt on a CPW line

摘要

A growing interest has been given to reconfigurable antennas. Most of these antennas rely on the integration of switch technologies. In this paper, it is proposed to test the integration of a set of commercially available MEMS switches in a PCB circuit design. The components are inserted in the slots of a CPW line enlarged by a large bandwidth multi section impedance transformer. This integration test is considered as a first and necessary step towards the design of reconfigurable antennas.