For RF folks, one of the perennial quests is for better frequency mixers: lower distortion,
lower power, better spurious performance. FETs can help. Nowadays CMOS muxes are the devices of choice for HF mixers, but to get the best performance, you still have to know how they work. Ed Oxner was a long-time Siliconix apps guy, and his paper on High dynamic range FET RF mixers is still right up there with the best.
(From a Siliconix databook, 1985.) The FET mux approach is often credited to Dan Tayloe, but since they work just the same, the "Tayloe mixer" should really be called the "Oxner mixer".