EC5203

Microwave Engineering
IEEE Microwave Frequency Bands
 Features or Advantages of Microwave
• Increased Bandwidth
• Improved Directive Properties
• Less Fading & Reliability
• Transparency Property
• Low Power Requirement
• Reflection, Refraction & Absorption Property
• Heating Property
 Applications of Microwave
• Broadcast & Point to Point Communication
• Aircraft Control Unit & ATC Centre
• Satellite Communication Systems,
• Microwave Oven
• Drying Machines
• Food Processing Industries
• Rubber, Plastic, Chemical, Drying Inks Industries
• Mining & Public Work Department
• Defence Equipment's Like Radar, Guided Missile, KALI
• Biomedical Applications
• Medical Treatment Units like Cancer Therapy, MRI etc
GaAs MMIC (a 2–18 GHz upconverter)
Three-dimensional structure of an MMIC circuit, showing the key elements.
Radio-frequency microelectromechanical system
A radio-frequency microelectromechanical system (RFMEMS) is a microelectromechanical
systems with electronic components comprising moving sub-millimeter-sized parts that
provide radio-frequency (RF) functionality. RF functionality can be implemented using a variety of
RF technologies. Besides RF MEMS technology, III-V compound
semiconductor (GaAs, GaN, InP, InSb), ferrite, ferroelectric, silicon-based semiconductor (RF
CMOS, SiC and SiGe), and vacuum tube technology are available to the RF designer. Each of the RF
technologies offers a distinct trade-off between cost, frequency, gain, large-scale integration,
lifetime, linearity, noise figure, packaging, power handling, power consumption, reliability,
ruggedness, size, supply voltage, switching time and weight.

There are various types of RF MEMS components, such as CMOS integrable RF

MEMS resonators and self-sustained oscillators with small form factor and low phase noise, RF
MEMS tunable inductors, and RF MEMS switches, switched capacitors and varactors.

RF MEMS resonators are applied in filters and reference oscillators. RF MEMS switches, switched
capacitors and varactors are applied in electronically scanned (sub)arrays (phase shifters)
and software-defined radios (reconfigurable antennas, tunable band-pass filters).
Figure (a) A capacitive fixed-fixed beam RF MEMS switch, switch, connected in series to a microstrip line.
connected in shunt to a CPW line. (b) An ohmic cantilever RF MEMS