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Brush Ceramic Products Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Brush Engineered Materials) is adding to its ever growing family of technical materials, DUROX-AL. DUROX-AL is high purity Alumina Ceramics available in 99.9 and 99.8 percent purity. High purity Alumina has excellent electrical insulation and great chemical resistance, along with...

Holzworth ’s Cross Correlation Phase Noise Analyzers are complete solutions that are available with either fixed or tunable DUT test frequencies. These dedicated phase noise analyzers offer a lower cost of ownership than traditional solutions. Providing accurate test results while being extremely intuitive to operate is of great value...

ARLON ’s new MultiClad™ HF is the next generation of halogen-free, low-loss thermoset and prepreg system for high-speed and high-frequency multilayer printed circuit boards. MultiClad HF is a thermally robust, high durability system with a high Tg (205° by DSC), low Z-direction expansion (1.2 percent from 50° to 260°C)...

SenarioTek LLC , a provider of custom RF/microwave test and measurement solutions, has been awarded a contract by Orbital Sciences Corp. , Dulles, VA, to provide test technology to extend the capabilities of Orbital’s installed payload test systems for the HYLAS 2 satellite payload. The SenarioTek solution will provide...

EADS Defence & Security , a leader in global security solutions and systems for civil and military markets, announced its official name change to CASSIDIAN . The Business Units have also received new names that highlight the core of their activities: CASSIDIAN Electronics, CASSIDIAN Air Systems and CASSIDIAN Systems....

Focus Microwaves Corp. , a device characterization solutions provider, announced it is offering a graduate electrical engineering course at China’s Tsinghua University on advanced RF power amplifier design methods using loadpull techniques. The class, taught by RF PA design and loadpull expert John Sevic, covers RF PA design methods...

The growing sophistication of naval platforms will be offset by long production cycles and spiraling costs that will limit the overall opportunity for communications systems and resulting demand for radio semiconductors. The recently published Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) data model, “Naval Communications Platforms - Advanced Electronics Component...

Radio and microwave technologies are widely used in mass market applications such as wireless and optical networks, radio and television broadcasting, mobile communications and global positioning systems (GPS). Additionally, these technologies are employed for a wide range of applications, including RF identification and sensors, ultra-wideband communication systems, healthcare systems,...

The latest RFID forecasts from ABI Research indicate that the value of the overall market – including both traditional applications such as access control, automobile immobilization, electronic toll collection and e-ID/ID documents as well as “modernizing” applications such as animal ID, asset management, baggage handling, cargo tracking/security, contactless payment...

Telecommunication, defence, automotive, space and imaging systems require radio frequency and microwave integrated circuits using different processes, with semiconductor devices and ICs forming the core of today’s microwave and mm-wave systems. European microwave companies and research centres produce, develop and are involved in research that covers a broad range...