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Narda Microwave: 55 years strong In February 1953, just a few months after The Saddlemen became Bill Haley and His Comets, four design engineers armed with a $20,000 engineering services contract formed Nassau Research & Development Associates. From these inauspicious beginnings in the back of a machine shop in...

Company History R&K Laboratory was founded by Reichiro Kobana in August 1977 and began shipping RF double balanced mixers in late 1978. His mission was to develop unique RF and microwave products for academic and commercial applications in Japan. R&K Laboratory became R&K Company Limited in February 1980, when...

Company History As early as 1932, Dr. Lothar Rohde and Dr. Hermann Schwarz, the company’s founders, developed their first measuring instrument, an interference wavemeter. In 1933, they set up shop under the name ‘Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. L. Rohde und Dr. H. Schwarz’ in Munich (renamed Rohde & Schwarz in...

Company History The roots of Reactel, Incorporated began when founder Emanuel (Manny) Assurian was employed as an Engineer by suburban Washington, DC filter manufacturer I-tel in the mid 1960’s. Eventually, Manny was named President of CIR-Q-TEL (I-tel’s new name) and remained there for several years. In 1979, Manny decided...

Company History Remcom has been a pioneer in the field of electromagnetic simulation since it was founded in 1994, introducing the first commercial FDTD solution. Raymond Luebbers and his graduate students H. Scott Langdon and Christopher Penney formed Remcom as an extension to the research that they were conducting...

Company History In 1991, William (Bill) J. Pratt, Powell T. Seymour and Jerry D. Neal founded RF Micro Devices® in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their mission was to bring gallium arsenide (GaAs) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology to the burgeoning wireless communications semiconductor marketplace, also in its early stages of...

50 Years of History In 1958, when the first issue of Microwave Journal came out, Rogers Corporation was already producing products for the nascent electronics market. At the time Rogers’ DUROID™ line of fiber-reinforced polymer materials were being used in gaskets and electrical insulation. DUROID brand products like RT/duroid®...

Company History 1958: The company was initially founded by Hans Rosenberger Senior in a locksmith shop that today forms the custom machining center. 1967: When Mr. Rosenberger bought some turning machines from a bankrupt company he was asked to handle an outstanding order for this company, giving Rosenberger access...

Company History For more than 30 years, the heritage companies which comprise Spectrum Microwave have supplied its defense and commercial customers with innovative and sophisticated RF & Microwave components and assemblies for demanding applications. Spectrum Microwave originally evolved under the direction of Spectrum Control’s CEO Richard Southworth out of...

Company History 1940: Tensolite Corporation was founded. 1950: Tensolite Insulated Wire Co., Inc. was founded. 1952: Tensolite entered the field of PTFE insulation. 1960: Tensolite became part of Carlisle Companies, Inc. 1962: Tensolite developed a process to wrap polyimide tapes on wire to produce a tougher, lighter airframe wire....