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Friday, March 28, 2014

MEMS Switch from GE claims fastest/highest Power Crown

The era of the MEMS switch may finally be here thanks to the research efforts of GE. Its MEMS chip, as small as 50 microns square, swathes as fast as 3 GHz and can handle up to 5-kiloWatts of power, making it a candidate for everything from industrial power control, to turning on light bulbs to switching antennas inside a smartphone.

GE's fast MEMS switch is also small, here just 100 microns square in a hex configuration.
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