Patent ID: 7776661

Claim:
A method of processing electrical signals in a megahertz or greater frequency range comprising the steps of: (a) introducing a signal to a co-planar waveguide, the co-planar waveguide providing a central conductor for receiving an input signal at a waveguide input and providing an output signal at a waveguide output, the central conductor supported by a insulating planar substrate and flanked on either side by ground conductors substantially parallel to each other and the central conductor also supported by the insulating planar substrate and spaced from the central conductor by gaps having a substantially predetermined dielectric, the gaps providing a predefined capacitance which together with an intrinsic inductance of the central conductor produces a predetermined characteristic impedance of a waveguide structure allowing impedance matched, low-loss transmission of high-frequency signals in at least one of the megahertz and gigahertz range; and (b) exciting into resonance at least one mechanically resonant pillar extending upward from the insulating planar substrate within the co-planar waveguide, the mechanically resonant pillar supporting a conductor, the conductor transferring electrons from the central conductor as received from the waveguide input to a second conductor with mechanical movement of the resonant pillar; and (c) extracting a modified signal from the waveguide output.