Comprehensive study of RF analysis of G/GO-based NEMS shunt switch

Microsystem Technologies - Tập 28 - Trang 1069-1075 - 2022
Rekha Chaudhary1, Prasantha R. Mudimela1
1Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India

Tóm tắt

High isolation and low insertion loss are the key design parameters for the NEMS switch at high frequency. The comprehensive study of radio frequency (RF) performance analysis of graphene-graphene oxide (GO) based NEMS shunt switch is done in this work. The results show that GO along with graphene can be used as a suspended beam in RF NEMS switches. The RF performance analysis of GO-based NEMS switches has been evaluated for both monolayer and multilayer GO beam. It is also demonstrated that GO provides superior isolation and low insertion loss at RF. The monolayer GO has low pull-in voltage, acquires high downstate capacitance, and high switching speed. Nevertheless, multilayer GO also shows improved RF performance with high switching speed. The mode shape of the suspended beam is evaluated by performing the eigenfrequency analysis for the first three frequencies.

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