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 Power Series-Shunt Integrated
Switch Element

The Aeroflex / Metelics’ broadband, high linearity, medium power series-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 Power PIN Diode SPST Series 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
MSWSSB-020-30 20 10 0.20 0.25 0.30 70 55 35 2012
MSWSS-020-40 20 6 0.15 0.25 0.55 63 50 33 2012
MSWSS-040-30 20 10 0.10 0.15 0.20 55 45 35 2012