Meander based RF MEMS capacitive switch for Mobile Front End Terminal Antenna support

摘要

Future network's main requirements are compact size, support to heterogeneous network which drive the requirements for multiband support. Self-similar shaped structure have useful applications in cellular telephone and microwave communications etc. Video conferencing, streaming video are main applications that are included in future networks and requirements for these applications are high data rates which require to have high bandwidth. But our aim to derive an antenna which works on large band of frequencies while having compact size. As size of antenna reduces bandwidth supported by the antenna. So it is required to have small size with high bandwidth. In this paper we propose meander based RF MEMS capacitive switch for mobile front end terminal antenna support for next generation networks. Different number of iteration is performed for its support to different bands. Re-configurability in antenna is another important concept and in this work this reconfigurability is achieved by using RF MEMS switches.