Articles by Leo G. Maloratsky, Rockwell Collins

The transceiver duplexer is a key element in avionics systems, radars, antenna arrays and wireless communication systems. The duplexer provides protection of the receiver and transmitter from unwanted parasitic signals. This article discusses several duplexer schematics, their development flow and a trade-off design. Duplexer Schematics An RF transceiver duplexer...

As is well known, there are two general types of altimeter systems - a pulse radar altimeter and a frequency modulated, continuous wave (FM-CW) radio altimeter. Aircraft radio altimeters typically operate at altitudes from 0 to 8000 feet utilizing separate antennas for transmit and receive. Such radio altimeters have...

There are several reasons for the wide use of printed transmission lines. They are simple to produce, they operate over a wide bandwidth, and have small weight and dimensions. The earliest form of printed transmission lines was the stripline ( Figure 1a ). 1,2 The printed stripline consists of...