Articles by Microwave Journal

EADS Defence & Security (DS) has delivered the most advanced secondary radar system for air traffic control purposes to the Philippine Air Transportation Office (ATO). The Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar (MSSR) 2000 I is the first building block of a comprehensive modern air traffic control network in the region....

Infineon Technologies has reaffirmed its number one market position in semiconductor discretes and modules for power electronics and outperformed the global market in 2007 according to the latest study of global market research firm IMS Research. The study reports that Infineon expanded its market share to 9.7 percent of...

Romania's National Institute of Materials Physics (NIMP) has ordered an advanced sputtering tool from Surrey NanoSystems , to support fundamental research into oxide materials including piezoelectric and pyroelectric thin films, and photoelectrochemical cells to support the hydrogen economy. NIMP chose a configuration of Surrey NanoSystems' Gamma tool, an advanced...

EMRISE Corp. , a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, announced that it has sold the assets of its printed circuit board (PCB) business, EMRISE Circuit Division (ECD), in Monrovia, CA, to Sierra Circuits Inc. , a provider of quick-turn printed circuit boards located...

TriQuint Semiconductor , an RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, was recognized by Northrop Grumman Corp. Electronic Systems (NGES) at its 2008 Supplier Conference with an award for bulk acoustic wave (BAW) innovation. At the same event TriQuint also received a Strategic Supplier Award for its dedication...

Ceralta Technologies Inc. announces the launch of a combined direct sales force to support the strategic direction and valued customer base of Ceralta and its subsidiaries TRU Corp. and Sage Laboratories Inc. TRU and Sage are radio frequency and microwave solution providers that garner significant brand recognition in the...

Tyco Electronics M/A-COM announced a line-up of three new high-power bipolar transistors designed for pulsed avionics and radar applications, ranging from 960 to 1215 MHz. The M/A-COM MAPRST0912-50, MAPRST0912-350 and MAPR-000912-500S00 transistors are ideally suited for pulsed avionics applications such as air traffic control (ATC) systems, distance measurement equipment...

Harris Corp. , an international communications and information technology company, announced that it will integrate technology from Freescale Semiconductor , a leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors, into its new TV transmitters for terrestrial broadcasters. Using Freescale’s laterally diffused MOS (LDMOS) UHF technology will enable Harris...

Rogers Corp. 's High Performance Foam Division will be highlighting two key BISCO® Silicone materials at the upcoming Aircraft Interiors Expo, Americas, to be held at the Long Beach, CA Convention Center September 9-11, 2008. Rogers (Booth #768) will be exhibiting its BISCO L3-A and HT-200 silicone materials in...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced its work with NVIDIA to accelerate signal integrity simulations using NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)-based Graphics Processing Units (GPU). The association is expected to yield the commercial release of a GPU-enabled Advanced Design System (ADS) Transient Convolution Simulator that will allow signal integrity designers...