Industry News

Agilent Joins Forces with German Military

Agilent Technologies has won a European-wide bid to supply the German Federal Armed Forces with more than 1,500 digital storage oscilloscopes (DSO). The 6000 series oscilloscopes will be delivered by the end of the year and will be used by engineers and technicians to test electrical equipment at the...
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Editorial Index

ANTENNAS Abri, M., N. Boukli-Hacene and F.T. Bendimerad “Design of a Dual-band Ring Printed Antenna Array,” No. 5, p. 228. Chair, R., A.A. Kishk, K.F. Lee and D. Kajfez “Performance Comparisons Between Dielectric Resonator Antennas and Printed Microstrip Patch Antennas at X-band,” No. 1, p. 90. Chen, Wen-Shan “A...
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Agilent Completes Acquisition of PXIT Inc.

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of certain assets of PXIT Inc. , a privately held company that provides signal integrity testing systems for broadband optical transceiver manufacturers. Financial details were not disclosed. All of PXIT's Massachusetts-based employees have joined Agilent. The combined technology and capabilities...
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New Literature

Power Products Brochure This 36-page brochure features the company’s line of microwave PIN diodes and modules for small signal/high speed switching, large signal switching/attenuators, limiters and Schottky mixers in a variety of surface-mount and high-rel packages, plus its new line of RF power semiconductors for avionics, radar, microwave, broadband,...
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The Book End

Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurements and Circuits Thomas H. Lee Cambridge University Press • 880 pages; $80, £45 ISBN: 0-521-83526-7 This book is a response to the students, hobbyists and practicing engineers who have complained about the lack of a modern reference that balances theory...
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2007 IEEE MTT-S RWS Exhibitor Showcase

Advanced Test Equipment 325 San Diego, CA O. Isarevich, M. Jahn Advanced Test Equipment Rentals offers effective solutions on rentals, leases and sales of test and measurement equipment including network and spectrum analyzers, cellular test sets and more. Equipment available from Agilent, Anritsu, Aeroflex/IFR, Bird, Narda, Noise/Com, Rohde &smp;...
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New Products

Signal Generator The Agilent N9310A RF signal generator reinforces Agilent’s entry into the low cost test instruments market and delivers on the company’s commitment to provide leading-quality and cost-effective products to customers. The N9310A RF signal generator covers ranges from 9 kHz to 3 GHz and full range of...
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H3G and CTS Collaborate on Microwave Planning

CTS International , a provider of network planning, design and optimization solutions, has successfully completed its contract with Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH (H3G) for its Ellipse Microwave Planning Tool Suite. The company has bought a significant number of Ellipse Microwave Planning licenses for the planning and design of its...
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Hall of Fame Dr. Lothar Rohde

The Technical University of Munich is dedicating a lecture hall to Dr. Lothar Rohde, which will honor the pioneer of radio frequency engineering on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Not only was Dr. Rohde founder of Rohde & Schwarz together with Dr. Hermann Schwarz in Munich in 1933,...
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Microwave Noise Modeling for AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs PHEMTs

Analytical expressions for the noise parameters of microwave pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (PHEMT) are presented in this article. These expressions are derived from an accurate small-signal and noise equivalent circuit model, which t...
Pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (PHEMT) have shown excellent microwave and noise performance and are very attractive for millimeter-wave and optoelectronic applications. The complete characterization of these devices, in terms of noise and scattering parameters, is necessary for computer-aided design (CAD) of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) or optoelectronic...
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