Proceedings of the 38th European Microwave Conference Improvement of the Link Quality in a Spatial Multiplexing MIMO System Using Beamforming Hassen BEN MAAD1, Soumaya SALLEM2, Kaïs MABROUK3 and Bernard HUYART4 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications- TELECOM-ParisTech RFM-COMELEC, 46, rue Barrault - 75013 Paris - France. 1 2 benmaad-enst.fr soumaya-enst.fr 3 mabrouk-enst.fr 4 huyart-e

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Proceedings of the 38th European Microwave Conference Reliability of Dielectric Less Electrostatic Actuators in RF-MEMS Ohmic Switches D. Mardivirin#1, A. Pothier#2, M. El Khatib#3, A. Crunteanu#4, O. Vendier*5 and P. Blondy#6 # XLIM UMR 6172 ­ Université de Limoges/CNRS - 123 Avenue Albert Thomas - 87060 LIMOGES Cedex FRANCE david.mardivirin-xlim.fr 2 arnaud.pothier-xlim.fr 3 mohammed.el-khatib

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