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Chronos to Launch New Products at EuMW

Chronos Technology will launch new RoHS compliant power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers and multipliers from Cernex Inc. , Sunnyvale, CA, at the European Microwave Exhibition. The new range of amplifiers and multipliers feature benefits such as solid-state class A design, 50 Ohms in/out impedance and rugged construction. The power...
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Arlon Launches CLTE-XT Microwave Laminate

Arlon Inc. announced the availability of the CLTE-XT microwave laminate. CLTE-XT represents the eXtended Technology of the existing CLTE product line and offers insertion loss (S 21 ) and loss tangent (0.0012 at 10 GHz). CLTE-XT is a micro dispersed ceramic PTFE composite utilizing a woven fiberglass reinforcement to...
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Applied Radar Receives $2.2 M DARPA Contract

Applied Radar Inc. has been selected to receive a $2.2 M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to develop active RF circulators employing Gallium Arsenide (GaAs)-based chips. The device is used to separate strong transmitted radar pulses from the weak radar echos from targets. According to...
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Fujitsu Names COO for US Semiconductor Operation

Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. (FMA) named Keith Horn to be its chief operating officer (COO). Horn, who is currently serving as senior vice president of sales and marketing, will be promoted to COO effective September 1, reporting to Kazuyuki Kawauchi, president and CEO of Fujitsu Microelectronics America. Keith Horn...
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Novel Low Pass Filters Using a Defected Microstrip Structure

In this article, the stop-band characteristics of a novel defected microstrip structure (DMS) are studied and its application to a low pass filter is proposed. The equivalent circuit model of the unit defected microstrip structure is used to explain th...
A novel defected microstrip structure (DMS), which behaves in a way similar to the known defected ground structure (DGS) unit cell, 1–10 is studied in this article. The unit DMS 3,4 is made by etching slots in the microstrip line, which then exhibits the property of rejecting microwaves at...
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Low Voltage Operation of GaAs Power Amplifiers

Next-generation mobile phones are capable of downloading music and video programming, displaying global positioning system (GPS) mapping and sharing high resolution photographs. These new applications are becoming increasingly popular as teenagers and others learn to manipulate photo and music files. Applications involving heavy display usage (such as mobile television)...
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