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The Locus Microwave L61000 series high performance X-band low noise amplifier (LNA) is available in a variety of premium noise temperatures including 40K and 45K. This unit is intended for indoor or outdoor environments with custom, ruggedized packaging options to fit the customer’s needs. The L61000 series features an...

Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR®), a provider of high frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, and Vector Fields Ltd. announced at the 2006 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium that they have integrated Vector Fields’ Concerto™ three-dimensional (3D) electromagnetic (EM) modeling software into AWR’s Microwave Office® circuit design platform. Vector...

Building upon its portfolio of WLAN power amplifiers (PA), Fairchild Semiconductor introduces the FMPA2151, a highly integrated dual-band WLAN power amplifier module optimized to increase performance and reduce PCB board footprint in the latest 802.11a/bg WLAN applications, including notebooks, digital cameras and portable handsets. The high performance FMPA2151 offers...

Providing design engineers with a rugged resistive device specifically designed for transmission line termination at high frequencies, TT electronics IRC Advanced Film Division has developed a microwave/RF termination resistor rated for operation at frequencies up to 40 GHz. Designated the MWR series, the microwave chip resistor is constructed using...

SUSS MicroTec AG has announced the newest member of its renowned IZI Probe ® family, the IZI Probe Card. This new solution integrates the unique IZI Probe technology into an RF probe card specifically designed for production test. As RF and microwave devices become more complex and their operating...

RFMD ® introduced a family of Gallium Nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) high power transistors and is sampling to top-tier cellular infrastructure and WiMAX base station customers. The sampling of these transistors represents the achievement of a baseline 0.5 um GaN high power transistor process by RFMD....

TriQuint Semiconductor , a supplier of microwave and millimeter-wave products for wireless communications infrastructure and the defense industry, introduced new gallium arsenide (GaAs) amplifiers during the IMS MTT-S Exhibition in San Francisco, CA. These new amplifiers are part of TriQuint’s continuing commitment to meet customers’ market-specific high frequency signal...

Rohde & Schwarz introduced the R&S FSUP, the company's first instrument designed exclusively for measuring phase noise and characterizing RF signal sources. The instrument incorporates the company's many years of experience in developing high quality spectrum analyzers and low noise oscillators and synthesizers. Rohde & Schwarz claims this to...

TRAK Microwave Corp. announced that it has been selected by a South Korean Prime Contractor to supply a sophisticated RF/microwave subsystem valued in excess of $4.5 M for use by a critical Korean Navy program. Over the three year period of performance of the contract, TRAK will deliver 122...

Polarization is a basic consideration in the design of any wireless communication system. Most systems use either linear or circular polarization. For a simple description of these two types of wave polarization, consider the illustration shown in Figure 1 . This figure shows an electromagnetic wave approaching an observer....