Industry News

New Products

The following booth numbers are complete as of August 9, 2011. PNA N522XA Network Analyzer The new PNA Series is based on Agilent's PNA-X architecture and is described as a high performance microwave network analyzer, setting a new price/performance standard in the industry. The Agilent PNA is used to...
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The Book End

Microwave Materials for Wireless Applications David Cruickshank, TransTech Inc. The history of magnetic materials began with spinel ferrites, but the discovery of ferromagnetic garnets began a period of intense activity through to the late 1970s. With more of these devices being produced to more stringent requirements for today's cellular...
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The MWJ Puzzler - September 2011

Math, Science and Logic PuzzLeS - for the "enginerd" in all of us (re-printed with permission from Pzzls - www.pzzls.com ) Download the Puzzler (PDF) Address unknown Mr. House would like to visit his old friend Mr. Street, who is living in the main street of a small village....
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Microwaves in Europe: The Current Climate

In times of plenty, it is easy to view the fruits of success as a given and make hay while the sun shines. The good times included the boom in the mobile communications sector in the late 1990s, subsequent periods of full order books and expansion thro...
Is the European RF and microwave industry feeling the heat? Will the current economic drought starve the industry of essential funding and investment or can focused and targeted innovation harvest demand and stimulate growth in established and developing sectors of the market? In hindsight, this was the calm before...
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Around the Circuit

INDUSTRY NEWS Microsemi Corp . announced that it has acquired the millimeter-wave technology and related assets of privately held Brijot Imaging Systems Inc . Microsemi's product offerings will include the industry's first millimeter-wave wand solution for touchless pat downs and will also support customers who need solutions that prevent...
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Adaptive Mode-Coupled Harmonically Tuned High-Q Ultra Low Phase Noise Sources

Historically, synthesizer developers have relied on a crystal based multiplied 1 GHz reference oscillator featuring excellent phase noise performance at frequencies of 3 GHz and above. A frequency multiplier crystal oscillator can offer low phase noise...
Various reference oscillator schemes are possible as shown in Figure 1 . 5 A 10 MHz temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) provides small size and low cost benefits for low-to-moderate performance applications, but higher multiplication factors can degrade the noise floor significantly. Improved stability and phase noise performance can be...
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New Bandstop Filter Using Simple Defected Microstrip Structure

A defected microstrip structure (DMS) has similar properties as a defected ground structure (DGS), but without any leakage through the ground plane. In this article, the stopband performance of a DMS is studied, and new single-band and dual-band bandst...
Currently, the defected ground structure (DGS) 1-4 has been widely employed to improve filter performance and reduce filter size. DGSs show good stopband performance and excellent harmonic suppression in microwave circuits design and especially the periodic DGSs, 4 which extend the stopband greatly. DGS increases the effective capacitance and...
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Loaded Annular Ring Slot Microstrip Antenna for Wideband and Multi-band Operation

Wideband and multi-band antennas have become part-and-parcel of modern telecommunication systems. In this article, an annular ring slot microstrip antenna loaded with two pie-shaped circular sectors is presented. With the use of pie-shaped circular sec...
Tremendous developments in wireless communications have been observed during the last few decades. The evolution of personal communication devices has led to the convergence of image, speech and data communications at anytime and anywhere around the world with the help of one mobile data terminal, which includes computer data...
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Determination of Transmission Zeros of Self-Equalized Cross-Coupled Resonator Bandpass Filters

A method to determine the filter order and the locations of transmission zeros of self-equalized bandpass filters is presented, according to given filter specifications by optimization. The objective error function for the optimization is computed from...
In many RF/microwave communications systems, a bandpass filter with a flat group delay is demanded, in addition to its selectivity. One way to obtain this is by designing a self-equalized filter, in which the group delay equalizer is realized within the filter itself. In general, for a self-equalized filter,...
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