Articles by MWJ Staff

Catalog Update

RF/Microwave Filters and Products This short form catalog features cavity, ceramic, SAW, LC and crystal filter products. Filters are available in bandpass, lowpass, highpass and bandstop designs. Additional products include duplexers, directional couplers, attenuators, terminations, EMI filters, antennas, RF surge arrestors and RF cable assemblies. Standard and custom products...
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New Products

GaAs MMIC SP4T Switches These two new SMT packaged GaAs PHEMT MMIC SP4T switches are ideal for industrial sensors, test and measurement, microwave radio, military EW and space applications up to 30 GHz. The HMC641LP4E is a MMIC SP4T switch that is rated for operation from DC to 20...
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The Book End

Small Antennas: Miniaturization Techniques & Applications provides up-to-date methods on the theory and design of small antennas, including an extensive survey of small antenna literature published over the past several years. Antennas have always been difficult to miniaturize, but recent developments in novel materials, either natural or synthetic (metamaterials),...
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The MWJ Puzzler - January 2011

Radar And Antennas Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 5 LTE (3 words) 7 Hybridization of FEM and IE solvers 9 Short for multi-input, multi-output 14 MoM (3 words) 15 Short for signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio 16 A signal processing technique used in sensor arrays for directional signal transmission or reception 17 3G...
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January 2011 WaveGuide

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The MWJ Puzzler - December 2010

Industrial, Scientific and Medical Applications Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 5 BER (3 words) 9 Electric grid with two-way communication capability to optimize energy consumption and delivery to the customer (2 words) 10 Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor 12 New type of light source that uses RF energy to...
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Software Update

System Simulation Software ACS has recently released a new version of the LINC2 VSA (Visual System Architect) system simulation software. Version 1.09 adds new system component models to the VSA’s components menu. This new version of the VSA offers a new file-based multi-tone signal source for stimulation of system...
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New Products

Components Crystal Notch Filter Anatech Electronics introduced the AS10CN801 crystal notch filter, which offers a notch center frequency of 10 MHz and notch bandwidth of 1 kHz. The filter’s rejection in the notch bandwidth is 80 dB, low-side passband is 9.8999 to 9.999 MHz, high-side passband is 10.001 to...
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The Book End

For decades, microwave radios in the 6 to 50 GHz bands have been providing wireless communications. Recently, newer technologies at the 60 to 100 GHz mmWave bands have taken advantage of new wireless regulations that are designed to enable ultra-high capacity communications. Multigigabit Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communications explores...
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