Abstract: This paper proposes a radiating pattern reconfigurable antenna by employing RF Micro-electromechanical Systems (RF MEMS) switches. The antenna has a low profile and small size of 4 mm× 5 mm× 0.4 mm, and mainly consists of one main patch, two assistant patches, and two RF MEMS switches. By changing the RF MEMS switches operating modes, the proposed antenna can switch among three radiat...

In this paper, we present three hierarchical multiscale architectures that are interconnected electrooptically at micro-scale level and via spin waves at nanoscale level. These architectures are derived from the Optical Reconfigurable Mesh (ORM), which is a MEMS architecture that supports several types of electrical and optical routings. The first multi-scale architecture presented here is a st...

© 2014 Materials Research Society MRS BULLETIN • VOLUME 39 • JUNE 2014 • www.mrs.org/bulletin Introduction Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond fi lm technology has experienced modest growth in the last two decades in terms of scientifi c and technological advances in the fi eld, which has, ultimately, positively affected progress in diamondbased microelectromechanical/nanoelectromechanical ...

The design of RF MEMS switches involves several disciplines: mechanics, materials science and electrical engineering. While significant progress has been made in the RF design of the switches, mechanical and material studies are required for mass commercialization of reliable devices. Senturia and co-workers at MIT have presented a closed form solution to describe the electromechanical behavior...

This paper demonstrates the design of an Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) based optical switch. In the design both physical and network layer analysis is performed. The physical layer power and noise analysis is done to obtain Bit Error Rate (BER). This has been found that at the higher bit rates, BER is not affected with number of buffer modules. Network layer analysis is done to obtain perfor...

The ability of silicon micromachining to produce small, precision, movable parts provides an opportunity for MEMS component use in optical communications networks [1,2]. To address this potential market, Analog Devices has developed the Optical iMEMS process for fabricating MEMS optical components with integrated, onchip electronics. While this process could be used to make a variety of optics ...

During this project the research focused on the following topics: a) the development of a MEMS reconfigurable Sierpinski antenna on LCP substrate; b) the development of a low cost localized packaging technique for RF MEMS switches integrated on a multilayer organic substrate (this is extremely important for the switch reliability that will be required in the reconfigurable antenna system); c) t...

Micro-mirror arrays are currently being developed by a number of companies for optical switching. To bring these products to the market quickly, a rapid development cycle is needed, leaving little time for multiple fabrication runs. CAD tools for MEMS can reduce the number of fabrication iterations run by allowing prototyping to occur within the virtual environment. Here, many models can be tes...