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Following a major review the Technology Strategy Board—an executive non-departmental public body established by the UK Government in 2007—is to refocus the work of its Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN). The aim of the networks is bring together interested parties from business, universities and research organisations to stimulate innovation through...

A new page in the modern history of aeronautical standardization has been written by ETSI members and ETSI partner organization EUROCAE, with the adoption of a new European Standard on Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS). It is seen as a significant step towards the completion of...

While the cellphone industry has generally been unaffected by economic ups and downs, this recession may well be very different, reports In-Stat. The current economic slowdown is more widespread and deeper than ever experienced during the history of the cellphone, and has spread through Europe, Asia and North America,...

ABI Research’s optimistic forecasts for the penetration of high-powered RF integrated circuits into the mobile wireless base station market have been borne out by the latest market developments. According to research director Lance Wilson, “Compared to the discrete devices they can replace, high-power RFICs take up less circuit board...

While microwave and millimeter-wave high-power vacuum electron devices (VED) remain “below the radar” of many industry observers, the total available market (TAM) for this segment is nearly $1 B. Despite its size, and although these tubes (valves) remain essential elements in specialized military, scientific/medical and space communications applications, this...

As mobile network expansion moves ostensibly to emerging markets where solar energy levels are more favorable, solar power appears ready to play an important role in reducing the costs of cellular service delivery and ensuring a more reliable power supply. The OEMs’ drive toward reducing base station power consumption,...

Industry News EMS Technologies Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Satamatics Global Ltd. , a global provider of Inmarsat IsatM2M (machine-to-machine or “M2M”) services, headquartered in Tewkesbury, UK. The acquisition complements the company’s existing Iridium- and Inmarsat-based tracking solutions. EMS expects the acquisition to...

Nowadays, microwave antennas are widely used, especially in achieving the objective of maximal integration for personal communication systems. These antennas can be mounted on the surface of high performance aircrafts, satellites, missiles, mobile phones and others. Integrated antennas are a combination of solid-state devices and circuits with printed antenna...

Linear antennas and their many variations have been essential to wireless communication and sensing for over a century. They have been widely deployed over the electromagnetic spectrum, especially at wavelengths ranging from VLF through microwaves. Even though they have been intensely studied throughout that time, there remain some fundamental...

High power RF amplifiers are expected to provide high primary performance parameters such as output power, gain and efficiency, as well as operate reliably for more than 20 years in the field. Traditionally, designers have built these amplifiers using components fabricated in cost-effective silicon-based technologies such as bipolar or...