RF & Microwave Industry News

Rogers introduces Condux Plus conductive foams

Rogers Corp.s High Performance Foams Division has introduced a new problem-solving material for handheld mobile devices — Condux Plus™ electrically conductive foam. Even in the most complex, compact handheld electronic designs, Condux Plus materials feature excellent electrical conductivity, consistent mechanical properties, and outstanding electromagnetic (EM) shielding capabilities, allowing them to serve as reliable grounding pads for handheld devices in need of enhanced conductivity and shielding performance.


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TriQuint High-speed DSA provides high performance for BTS & test applications

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. has released a new 7-bit digital step attenuator (DSA) that delivers the low insertion loss, high speed, linearity and and advanced, fine-grain resolution required by designers of base station transceivers, test equipment and many other similar applications. The TQP4M9083 provides up to 31.75 dB of attenuation in 0.25-dB steps and operates from 400 MHz to 3.5 GHz.


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Peregrine Semiconductor expands digitally tunable capacitor product line

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (Peregrine), a fabless provider of high-performance radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs), announced from booth # 2009 at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS2012) in Montreal, two new Digitally Tunable Capacitors (DTCs) — the PE64101 and PE64102 (PE64101/2) DTCs. The 5-bit, 32-state DTCs, designed using Peregrine’s DuNE™ tuning technology, enable wide-band tunable networks and minimize mismatch losses, improve system efficiency, and reduce radio complexity for cost-sensitive applications, such as RFID, phase shifters, and wireless communications, among others. 


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