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Rogers Corp. , a supplier of specialty material solutions, has launched a new Chinese language website. The comprehensive site provides engineers, product designers and other site visitors with the highest level of regionalized service. The new Rogers' China site, accessible at www.rogerscorp.cn.com or from Rogers' English-lauguage homepage, www.rogerscorp.com ,...

The IMS2009 Steering Committee awarded several winners of Red Sox/Yankees tickets on July 2 at a luncheon held in Burlington, MA at the Capital Grille. Attending were IMS2009 Chairman Fred Schindler, Local Arrangements Chairman Tom Costas, Gifts Chairman Mark Lewis and Microwave Journal editors David Vye and Pat Hindle...

As part of a project to provide the Netherlands MoD with one of the most accurate signal direction finding capabilities available anywhere in the world, Roke Manor Research Ltd. has delivered Roke-designed and manufactured crossed-loop antennas to the customer's site. The company’s latest electronic surveillance project includes the delivery,...

SUSS MicroTec , a supplier of process and test solutions for microstructuring applications in semiconductor and related markets, has announced a new structure for sales in Asia based in Singapore. The restructuring establishes the sales office in Bangkok, Thailand, which administers sales and service for lithography and wafer bonder...

Under a three-year network modernization deal, Ericsson is paving the way for leading Ukrainian operator Kyivstar to offer its 23.9 million subscribers mobile broadband services. Via the expansion and modernization of its GSM/EDGE network, Kyivstar's customers across 99.9 percent of the country will be able to access multimedia data...

RFI China has been appointed as a full PTCRB laboratory for both GERAN (GSM) and WCDMA (3G) terminals. The company views this as being a major benefit for manufacturers in Asia as it means that that they can gain all the benefits of RFI quality without the approval having...

ANADIGICS Inc. announced that its AWT6224, AWT6321 and AWT6222 3G dual-band power amplifier (PA) modules are being used in LG Electronics’ new ARENA (KM900) multimedia, touch screen handsets for the European, Asian and Central/South American markets. The LG KM900 ARENA offers a 3-inch, 262K color touchscreen display. It provides...

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), provider of a program in microwave and millimeter-wave RFICs and mixed-signal, and Jazz Semiconductor® , a Tower Group company, announced that they have collaborated to develop a two-antenna quad-beam RFIC phased array receiver covering the 11 to 15 GHz frequency range. First...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. , a supplier of high performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, and MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd. , an Asia-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high volume consumer applications, announced that the companies have completed the final qualification phase in the process...

In the beginning... (Around World War II), microwave circuits were heavy and bulky and consisted of voluminous, hollow metallic pipes and tubes known as waveguide. Microwave engineers working in waveguide were referred to as plumbers and their tools included files, ball-peen hammers, epoxy and paint. In the 1960s, planar...