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Agilent Technologies Inc. demonstrated its full range portfolio of WiMAX test solutions April 9-10 at the Suntec Convention Center, Booth 34. Agilent's test solutions address the WiMAX test requirements in design verification, pre-conformance, conformance, network deployment and service assurance. These test solutions enable engineers and managers in R&D, manufacturing...

INTRODUCTION This paper is concerned with the connection between the varactor equivalent circuit and harmonic generator performance. Substantial progress has recently been made in the detailed analysis of multiplier circuits by several workers; these results will likely be published in the near future. Instead of borrowing from these new...

This article presents a high gain and efficiency Doherty amplifier for WLAN mobile base stations with three advanced methods. First, a Doherty amplifier is developed with uneven power drive, which provides more input power to the peak amplifier for full power operation and appropriate load modulation. Second, a special...

This year is the 50 th anniversary of Microwave Journal . As is frequently the response to such noteworthy occasions, the editors, in their unquestionable wisdom, have invited old codgers like me to create retrospectives on microwave technology. I never thought it would have happened, but the older I...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, have teamed to speed the installation of Type 1 secure wireless networks for intelligence and civilian agencies of the federal government. The two companies combined their core strengths to provide Secure Wireless Architecture...

A US Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle. The satellite, designated GPS IIR-19M, is the sixth in a line of eight GPS IIR...

Raytheon Co. played a pivotal role in the February 20 th successful intercept of a non-functioning satellite. The company’s Standard Missile-3 was specially modified for its unique operation, performing beyond its intended capabilities to intercept the target 153 miles over the Pacific Ocean. Much engineering and technical expertise went...

Northrop Grumman Corp. is one of two companies awarded a contract by the US Army to design and demonstrate a prototype missile interceptor weapon system that will defend warfighters against rocket, artillery and mortar (RAM) threats. As part of the first phase of a multi-phase program spanning five years,...

The European Space Agency’s director general Jean-Jacques Dordain and European Commission director general for Enterprise & Industry, Heinz Zourek, have signed an agreement, which establishes the allocation of an EC budget of €624 M to ESA as a contribution to the implementation of the GMES Space Component (GSC). This...

Flomerics’ MicReD subsidiary will play a major role in the recently announced European-funded NANOPACK project, which aims to address thermal barriers to continued performance increases in semiconductors and power electronics by developing new technologies and materials for low thermal resistance interfaces and electrical interconnects. The NANOPACK consortium, which is...