Articles by Microwave Journal Staff

While mobile handsets are expected to account for approximately two-thirds of the Bluetooth devices that will ship in 2002, and cordless headsets will also be a growing category, Allied Business Intelligence's (ABI) new Bluetooth report notes that there are significant opportunities for Bluetooth semiconductor vendors in other markets, especially...

According to a report by In-Stat/MDR, over the last three years, a very rapid wireless evolution has occurred in the home. In 1999 and 2000, the question was whether HomeRF or 802.11 would win in the home. In 2001, the main issue was whether 802.11a (5 GHz Wi-Fi) or...

Given the down turn in the semiconductor equipment market, suppliers are now focusing more intently on the compelling opportunity MEMS fabrication is presenting, according to In-Stat/MDR. There are some 60 MEMS fab/foundries, several hundred start-ups (many of which have their own in-house prototyping and/or fabrication facilities), as well as...

The total worldwide count of analog, CDMA, TDMA, GSM, PDC, PHS and UMT base stations will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of a mere 13.7 percent through 2006, according to In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm finds that, during this same period, UMTS will lead...

COMPONENTS Ceramic Filter/Decoupling Capacitor This ceramic filter/decoupling capacitor utilizes revolutionary X2Y® technology. The design incorporates common shielding electrodes that form a Faraday Cage around the standard capacitor. The addition of the common electrode creates two matched or balanced capacitors enabling simultaneous line-to-line and line-to-ground filtering. The matched capacitor design...

INDUSTRY NEWS The Connecticut Microwave Corp. acquired the combiner, duplexer and filter product lines of Davicom Technologies Inc. The acquisition included all engineering, tooling, manufacturing process data and work in progress. These products are primarily used in dedicated systems including business, safety and municipal. Littelfuse Inc. has purchased Semitron...

2002 Product Catalog This catalog includes high power passive resistive components featuring terminations, resistors and attenuators in various configurations. Packages are available in chip form, chips with leads and flanged devices. Also featured are standard precision chip packages, thick film circuit capabilities, cable load and power sensors. Barry Industries...

Compact and Broadband Microstrip Antennas Kin-Lu Wong John Wiley & Sons Inc. 327 pages; $94.95 ISBN: 0-471-41717-3 Modern portable communication equipment requires compact, broadband microstrip antennas. This book is intended to present new advanced designs of this type of antenna, offering more than 100 advanced microstrip antenna designs and...

Raytheon Co. is expanding its Reliability Analysis Laboratory (RAL) technical offerings with the incorporation of reliability engineering consulting services. Reliability is a core feature that can make or break the long term success of both products and companies. Design for Reliability (DFR) engineering tasks are just as important as...

Lockheed Martin received a $131 M funding increment to continue its leadership of the Battle Management/Command and Control/Communication (BM/C2/C) program for the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Missile Defense National Team. The contract runs through December of 2003 and funds the team's efforts to devise and field an operational structure...