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JEM Engineering , a custom antenna design, manufacturing and testing services company, announced that it has co-engineered an artificially-evolved antenna with NASA , becoming the first of its type in space. The evolved antenna – mounted on three of NASA’s Space Technology 5 (ST5) satellites – was launched into...

Basic antenna theory shows that the scattering cross-section of an antenna is often much larger than the physical cross-section of the metal wires from which the antenna is constructed. In the case of RFID tags, a large number of tag antennas may be present in close proximity to one...

Filtronic plc , a global designer and manufacturer of customized microwave electronic subsystems for the wireless telecommunications and defence industries, and Powerwave Technologies Inc. , a global supplier of end-to-end wireless solutions for wireless networks, announced that the companies have entered into a period of exclusive negotiations for the...

Since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released UWB technology, 1 many researchers have made efforts to develop UWB radio systems. 2,3 As the antenna is a key component of a UWB radio system, many antenna designs for UWB applications have been published. 4 A monopole antenna has the advantage...

A new ABI Research study of the wireless base station RF power amplifier market has concluded that three factors will determine the shape of the sector over the next five years. "RF Power Amplifiers: Equipment and RF Power Device Analysis for Cellular Infrastructure Markets" examines the economic and technical...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF modules for telecommunications networks, defense electronics and homeland security systems, announced that it has entered into a Preferred Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement, effective as of April 24, 2006, with Oak Investment Partners XI, Limited Partnership. Pursuant to the purchase...

TTP Communications plc and Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) today announced that TTPCom’s subsidiary TTPCom Ltd. has reached an agreement with ADI — its long time collaborator in the development of silicon and software for cellular phones — under which TTPCom will transfer to ADI intellectual property, engineering resources and...

The Chinese mobile communications market shows little sign of waning. For 2005, China Mobile, the world’s largest cellphone operator in terms of network capacity and customers, reported a 28.3 per cent increase in profit to 53.5 bn yuan (US$6.7 bn) on revenue of 243 bn yuan (US$30.4 bn). In...

M/A-COM , a business unit of Tyco Electronics and a provider of wireless radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components, announced the opening of the M/A-COM - Shenzhen Engineering and Operations Center in Shenzhen, China. The Center houses operations and engineering expertise and staff from M/A-COM’s Infrastructure and Broadband...

EMS SATCOM , a division of EMS Technologies Inc., reported that Bombardier Aerospace has selected the company’s eNfusion™ AMT-3800 high gain antenna as an approved factory option on its ultra long-range Global™ Express XRS and super-large Bombardier Global 5000™ business jets. The AMT-3800 antenna joins the company’s AMT-50 tailmounted...