Rf Mems Switch Platforms Expedite Mems Integration and Commercialization
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Introduction Consumer demand for highly personalized, ubiquitous access to information continues to increase rapidly. Growing volumes of data traffic and demands for higher quality products and services have driven the proliferation of new portable and fixed communications. Suppliers of wireless and wire line communications are being challenged to provide more features, bandwidth, and talk time with shorter product development cycles, less power, and smaller footprints. These market trends necessitate new product architectures that are enabled by technologies beyond that of planar integrated circuits (ICs). Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology is one such technology.
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