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The rapid growth of wireless communications, as well as space-borne systems, leads to the increasing demand of low power, high efficiency systems. High efficiency is the prime requirement for any space-qualified transmitter or wireless communication systems. Higher efficiency means greater output power with reduced power dissipation. Achieving higher efficiency...

Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors, (MIM caps) have played a vital role in the design of a wide variety of MMIC circuits, particularly where low loss/high-Q is a critical design requirement. Because of their ease of fabrication, they can be found in the design kits of both silicon and compound semiconductor...

In recent years, the 7 GHz of contiguous bandwidth have been opened for unlicensed use at millimeter-wave frequencies around 60 GHz (known as V-Band) in the US and Japan. High rate wireless communication technology operating at millimeter-wave frequencies has been an interesting topic with various applications and tremendous potentials....

Using NMDG extension kits for vector network analysers, the user is able to characterise the nonlinear behaviour of HF components in time and frequency domain under realistic conditions, even in a non-50 Ohm environment. However, from an engineering point of view, the large signal network analyser (LSNA) techniques are...

Sematron is exhibiting the industry’s first commercially available Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) at the European Microwave Show in booth 218. Manufactured by Symmetricom, the worldwide leader in precision time and frequency technologies, the CSAC provides the accuracy and stability of atomic clock technology while delivering dramatic improvements in...

Permac Electronics will be promoting products from Planar Monolithics Industries during EuMW. Both companies will be in booth 145. One product is an extended range detector log video amplifier. Permac says the amplifier is the world's smallest, lowest power-consuming, CW-immune ERDLVA. The other products are digitally tuned oscillators from...

Mesuro launched a vector network analyser based software solution for Fundamental Only Active Load Pull. The Fundamental Only software implementation follows the format, structure and operation of the existing main system software. This allows a customer to both reutilize existing equipment and also expand to full harmonic load pull...

Pickering Interfaces is expanding its range of 3U PXI RF/Microwave solutions with the introduction of solutions with frequency coverage to 6GHz. Pickering will be exhibiting at EuMW in booth 533. The four products are: • The 40-880 is a 10 MHz to 6 GHz solid-state SPDT switch available as...

When last month's column was broadcast, I was on a plane to Beijing with an agenda focused on putting our plans for a Chinese edition of Microwave Journal into action. Well, I am happy to report that the plan is proceeding and we are preparing for the launch of...

Along with most, I was rather sad to hear that Steve Jobs passed away the other day. He was truly a brilliant and driven individual following his own path. Coincidently, the news reached me on the same day that I finished writing about the innovative spirit at Apple as...