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  MWJ:   What are the most significant benefits of GaN/LDMOS/HVFET? How does this compare to other high power devices?   Nitronex: The most significant advantages of GaN over other power technologies are is its power density and high frequency response. Having several times higher power density results in...

MWJ: What are the most significant benefits of LDMOS?   Freescale: • LDMOS has the lowest cost per watt ($/W) ratio of any of the high power RF amplifier technologies. • LDMOS has some of the best Class-AB linearity, gain, reliability, and thermal resistance numbers of any of the popular RF power...

MWJ:   What are the most significant benefits of HVVFET™? How does this compare to other high power devices? HVVi: The benefit of designing high power devices using a high voltage breakdown technology and a vertical device structure is high power density. The resulting power device is housed in...

MWJ: What is the potential of GaN/LDMOS/HVFET technology in mobile radio communication systems. What are the most significant benefits of GaN/LDMOS/HVFET? NXP: NXP is the company that develops both LDMOS and GaN technology. LDMOS is today’s technology of choice for base station, broadcast and radar applications. Being technology leader,...

Among the changing landscape of RF/microwave semiconductor developments, devices with material properties that can sustain high electric breakdown are of particular interest.  Within the last six-months alone, the Journal has published over a dozen papers on Laterally Diffused MOS (LDMOS), gallium nitride (GaN), silicon carbide (SiC) SIT & MESFETs,...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, continues to expand its Power Detector product line to include an extensive range of industry-leading RMS Power Detectors, Logarithmic Detectors and SDLVAs that cover the entire 50 Hz to 20 GHz frequency range with...

Crystek 's CVCO55CC-3318-3467 voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) operates from 3318 to 3467 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.1~16 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -106 dBc/Hz @ 10 kHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +5 dBm. Engineered and manufactured in the...

Anritsu Co. introduces the MN469xA series 4-port test sets for use with its VectorStar MS4640A vector network analyzer (VNA). The development of the MN469xA series takes advantage of VectorStar’s 70 GHz high-performance, proven switching technology to produce the high accuracy and wide dynamic range necessary to conduct 16 fully...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF devices and integrated subsystems, has announced that its advanced E-band TX/RX pair is now available in high volumes. Endwave’s transmit-receive (TX/RX) module pair is a uniquely integrated subsystem that incorporates several Endwave innovations. They operate over the E-band frequency spectrum...

San-tron Inc. , a manufacturer of RF coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, has announced the release of new Type N T connectors, UG-28A/U and UG-107B/U, manufactured with a unique counterbore innovation. San-tron has replaced the miter-cut joining technique with a counterbore joining technique. The counterbore technique saves both time...