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- Publications
- Influence
Electric-field assisted assembly and alignment of metallic nanowires
- P. Smith, C. Nordquist, +4 authors T. Mallouk
- Physics
- 22 August 2000
This letter describes an electric-field assisted assembly technique used to position individual nanowires suspended in a dielectric medium between two electrodes defined lithographically on a SiO2… Expand
Novel Microsystem Applications with New Techniques in Low‐Temperature Co‐Fired Ceramics
- K. Peterson, Kamlesh D. Patel, +5 authors M. Okandan
- Materials Science
- 1 September 2005
Low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) enables development and testing of critical elements on microsystem boards as well as nonmicroelectronic meso-scale applications. We describe silicon-based… Expand
Lifetime limitations of ohmic, contacting RF MEMS switches with Au, Pt and Ir contact materials due to accumulation of ‘friction polymer’ on the contacts
- D. A. Czaplewski, C. Nordquist, C. W. Dyck, G. A. Patrizi, G. A. Kraus, W. D. Cowan
- Materials Science
- 23 August 2012
We present lifetime limitations and failure analysis of many packaged RF MEMS ohmic contacting switches with Au–Au, Au–Ir, and Au–Pt contact materials operating with 100 μN of contact force per… Expand
Electrical Contact Resistance and Device Lifetime Measurements of Au-RuO2-Based RF MEMS Exposed to Hydrocarbons in Vacuum and Nitrogen Environments
- M. J. Walker, D. Berman, C. Nordquist, J. Krim
- Materials Science
- 9 September 2011
Electrical Contact Resistance (ECR) measurements are reported for RF micro-electromechanical switches with Au-RuO2 contacts, situated within an ultrahigh vacuum system equipped with in situ oxygen… Expand
RF MEMS Switches With $\hbox{RuO}_{2}$ –$\hbox{Au}$ Contacts Cycled to 10 Billion Cycles
- D. A. Czaplewski, C. Nordquist, G. A. Patrizi, G. A. Kraus, W. Cowan
- Materials Science
- Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
- 1 February 2013
We present improvements in RF microelectromechanical switch design and fabrication that demonstrated improved lifetimes in cycled switches. First, implementation of RuO2-Au contact metallurgy into an… Expand
Investigating the impact of carbon contamination on RF MEMS reliability
- A. Carton, C. G. Christodoulou, C. Dyck, C. Nordquist
- Computer Science
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society…
- 9 July 2006
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A MEMS high-Q tunable capacitor for reconfigurable microwave integrated circuits
- C. Nordquist, Arnoldo Muyshondt, +6 authors C. Sullivan
- Engineering
- 2003
Future microwave networks require miniature high-performance tunable elements such as switches, inductors, and capacitors. We report a micro-machined high-performance tunable capacitor suitable for… Expand
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MEMS Ohmic Latching Relay.
- D. A. Czaplewski, M. S. Baker, C. Nordquist, K. R. Pohl, G. A. Kraus
- Materials Science
- 1 September 2007
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X-band RF MEMS tuned combline filter
- C. Nordquist, C. Goldsmith, +4 authors C. Sullivan
- Engineering
- 22 February 2005
A three-pole combline filter tuning from 8.2 to 11.3 GHz using RF MEMS switched capacitors is reported. This structure, measuring 2.85×2.15 mm2, allows 31% tuning with 11% 3 dB bandwidth for the four… Expand
Monolithically integrated solid-state terahertz transceivers
Recent advances in microfabricated terahertz quantum cascade lasers have achieved coherent power and frequency performance previously possible only with much larger gas- or vacuum-tube sources. A… Expand