Industry News

MM-Wave Products and Technologies

November 16, 2006, IEE, Savoy Place, London
CALL FOR PAPERS Contributions are sought from prospective authors for this colloquium, which is organized by the RF & Microwave Professional Network. It will cover recent advances in all aspects of mm-wave technology including MMICs, MCMs, subsystems, packaging, processing and complete product or system development. Contributors should submit a...
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IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2006)

June 11-13, 2006, San Francisco, CA
The 2006 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2006) brings focus to the technical accomplishments in RF systems, circuit, device and packaging technologies for mobile phones, wireless communication systems, broadband access modems, radar systems and intelligent transport systems. It builds upon its heritage as one of the foremost...
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IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC 2006)

August 14-18, 2006, Portland, OR
The IEEE International Symposium on EMC (EMC 2006) will be uniquely balanced, affording excellent resources for EMC, design and compliance engineers. The technical program will feature top quality papers, presented by recognized, industry-leading experts. Further, the EMC 2006 technical program will be on the cutting edge of EMC information,...
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Mimix Broadband Sells Its GaAs Foundry to USTI

Mimix Broadband Inc. , a supplier of microwave and millimeter-wave gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors, announced that it has executed a definitive agreement to sell its gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundry to Universal Semiconductor Technology Inc. (USTI), a high technology investment company. As part of this agreement, Mimix and USTI have...
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Design of an Amplifier Using a Harmonic Termination Matching Tuner and Harmonic Blocking Bias Line

In this article, a new 3 dB branch line hybrid, using an asymmetric defected ground structure (DGS) microstrip, is proposed. The proposed branch line coupler suppresses the second and third harmonic components effectively. If transmission lines having ...
Harmonic load-pull systems have gained importance recently, because such setups allow the appropriate harmonic terminations for a transistor to be determined in order to obtain high efficiency and high linearity. Harmonic load-pull can also make the verification of transistor models possible. However, the active load-pull systems that are presently...
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A 2 GHz, 0.25 µm MOS Complementary VCO with Differentially Tuned MOS Varactors for Wireless Applications

This article describes a 2 GHz CMOS complementary voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with differentially tuned MOS varactors for ISM-band wireless communications applications. The VCO is fabricated using a 0.25 µm mixed-signal/RF CMOS process. This VCO, utilizing differentially tuned MOS varactors, can reduce the adverse effect of high varactor sensitivity by...
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Traveling in Space Comes Easy to Thales ED

Thales Electron Devices is proud of its contribution to the success of Giove-A, the first demonstrator satellite for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation and positioning system. The company has supplied the Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTA) that amplify the system validation signals. These microwave tube amplifiers are particularly suitable for...
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IET Launches with Promise to Reach the Young

Europe's largest professional society for engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), was launched on 31 March in London, UK. The new Institution has been formed by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) and will have more than 150,000 members worldwide....
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Tecan Environmental Status Gets Green Light

High-precision metal part and finishing specialist, Tecan , has been recognized for its ongoing commitment to minimizing its effect on the environment, by being granted ISO 14001 status for its in-house environmental management systems. This ISO specifies the actual requirements for an environmental management system and applies to those...
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Huber + Suhner Kicks Up a Storm

Huber + Suhner has been awarded a major order for radio frequency assemblies and connectors predestined for the second series of 236 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The order is valued at approximately CHF 13 million and will be processed over the next three to four years. It is the second...
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