Microwave Journal
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Miniature RF Switches

January 17, 2011


AKON offers a line of high performance, high speed and high isolation miniature RF switches.

These switches are available in standard configurations such as SPST through SP8T and higher. Switching speeds are typically in the order of 100 nanoseconds, but units under 10 ns are also available.

Switch off state isolation can be 60 db or greater.
Both reflective and absorptive configurations are available.
Frequency band coverage is model dependent but ranges from 500 MHz to 40 GHz.
Connector options include SMA, GPO, TNC, type N or an extended pin for drop-in.
Standard control logic is single ended TTL.

The reflective SP5T switch shown here covers 2.0 to 18.0 GHz, with 50 nS switching speed (typical), 60 dB isolation, 3 dB maximum insertion loss, maximum VSWR of 2.0:1 and +24 dBm power handling.