Aeroflex Microelectronic Solutions

From GaAs to silicon. No one provides a more comprehensive approach to handling all your requests for standard and custom Schottkys, PINs, NIPs, varactors, detectors, limiters, capacitors, resistors, inductors, attenuator pads, and so much more. And they come delivered every way imaginable, from wafers to plastic surface mount.

Aeroflex Metelics Products

Medium and High Power Shunt Switch Element

The Aeroflex / Metelics’ broadband, high linearity, medium and high power shunt switch elements are excellent for test instrumentation, software defined radio, and wireless infrastructures such as TD-SCDMA, WiMAX, WiBro, WLAN, and MIMO OFDM.

  • Small package size
  • Broadband performance
  • Low insertion loss
  • Cost effective choice for switch applications.

  Feature Article, MPD 3-2010: Advances in Plastic Surface Mount Silicon and GaAs Schottky Diodes for High Frequency Detectors and Mixers, by James L. Godbout and Rockford C. Curby, Ph.D., Aeroflex / Metelics

  Application Note,  AN55131B:  Design of LOW COST High Performance 20W and 50W Transmit and Receive Antenna Switches

  Application Note, AN55132B:  Design of LOW COST High Isolation 20W and 50W Transmit and Receive Antenna Switches

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Medium and High Power PIN Diode SPST Shunt Switch Elements
Part
Number
 Rated
Power
Max		 Frequency
Maximum		 Insertion Loss
Typical		 Isolation
Typical		 Package*
Frequency (GHz)
1 2.5 6 1 2.5 6
MSWSH-020-30 20 6 0.05 0.25 0.35 35 31 27 2012
MSHSH-040-30 40 6 0.04 0.10 0.30 35 32 36 2012
MSWSHC-040-40 40 10 0.10 0.20 0.40 35 55 50 2615
MSWSH-100-30 100 6 0.10 0.15 0.35 35 30 27 CM22
MSWSHB-020-30 40 10 0.02 0.08 0.13 40 40 35 2012