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The Book End

New Horizons in Mobile and Wireless Communications, Vol. 3: Reconfigurability Ramjee Prasad and Albena Mihovska, Eds. Based on cutting-edge research projects in the field, this book (part of a comprehensive four-volume series) provides the latest details and covers the most impactful aspects of mobile, wireless and broadband communications development....
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New Products

The following booth numbers are complete as of April 15, 2009. Aluminum Flange Stock A-Alpha stocks aluminum waveguide flange stock in sizes from WR22 to WR137 and double-ridged sizes WRD180, 475, 580, 650 and 750. This 6063 extruded aluminum material precludes the need to broche corners in the windows...
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The New MWJournal.com Resources Section

Effective Communications through Multiple Mediums
Microwave engineers appreciate the need for different communication schemes to serve diverse channels and receivers. How information is transmitted directly impacts successful reception. In publishing today, print and the Internet are used to communicate to an intended audience. Where print is tried and true, the Journal ’s website is...
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Focus on Research

This month online, Petteri Alinikula, Laboratory Director Nokia Research Center Helsinki, discusses the global reach of the NRC, the role of research in the current economic climate and his plenary speech at IMS 2009. To read the in-depth interview vi...
Nokia is one of the most familiar names worldwide, but not everyone is conversant with the fact that the company started out in 1865 with a mill producing paper—the original communications technology—and that it took a merger with a cable company and a rubber firm to set the new...
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A Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna with Frequency and Polarization Diversities

In this article, a novel microstrip patch antenna is presented, with both frequency and polarization reconfigurabilities. By controlling the states of the switches loading on the patch, the antenna can operate in two distinct frequency bands (the frequ...
The ever increasing development of wireless communication systems has led to a great demand for mobile devices that can operate using different standards such as GSM, GPS, DCS, UMTS and wireless local-area network (WLAN). Moreover, for the standards working under a complicated environment such as WLAN, the polarization diversity...
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Development Report of Power FETs for Solid-state Power Amplifiers from GaAs to GaN Devices

Major advances in microwave device development in recent years have enabled a transition to solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA) for wireless communications and radar systems in microwave to millimeter-wave bands. In particular, SSPAs are rapidly replacing electronic tube amplifiers, such as magnetron and traveling-wave tube-based amplifiers (TWTA), for base stations...
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