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Is the European RF and microwave industry feeling the heat? Will the current economic drought starve the industry of essential funding and investment or can focused and targeted innovation harvest demand and stimulate growth in established and developing sectors of the market? In hindsight, this was the calm before...

INDUSTRY NEWS Microsemi Corp . announced that it has acquired the millimeter-wave technology and related assets of privately held Brijot Imaging Systems Inc . Microsemi's product offerings will include the industry's first millimeter-wave wand solution for touchless pat downs and will also support customers who need solutions that prevent...

Various reference oscillator schemes are possible as shown in Figure 1 . 5 A 10 MHz temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) provides small size and low cost benefits for low-to-moderate performance applications, but higher multiplication factors can degrade the noise floor significantly. Improved stability and phase noise performance can be...

The addition of a small amount of C in the B-doped base layer of a npn SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) paved the way for exposing the high frequency (HF) performance potential of such devices more than 10 years ago. 1 Significantly, the suppression of thermal diffusion and point-defect...

Currently, the defected ground structure (DGS) 1-4 has been widely employed to improve filter performance and reduce filter size. DGSs show good stopband performance and excellent harmonic suppression in microwave circuits design and especially the periodic DGSs, 4 which extend the stopband greatly. DGS increases the effective capacitance and...

Tremendous developments in wireless communications have been observed during the last few decades. The evolution of personal communication devices has led to the convergence of image, speech and data communications at anytime and anywhere around the world with the help of one mobile data terminal, which includes computer data...

In many RF/microwave communications systems, a bandpass filter with a flat group delay is demanded, in addition to its selectivity. One way to obtain this is by designing a self-equalized filter, in which the group delay equalizer is realized within the filter itself. In general, for a self-equalized filter,...

In the development of high-end electronic devices, a steep rise is being observed in the demand for module solutions for RF components. The reason is to be able to compete in a market that desires new features everyday in the smallest form factor, at lowest current consumption and with...

Manchester was at the heart of the industrial revolution in the 19 th century and the city will again be a hub of activity as the RF and microwave industry takes the opportunity to demonstrate its current invention and productivity during European Microwave Week 2011, which will be held...

This month's Executive Interview: Professor Wolfgang Heinrich, President of the European Microwave Association (Eu M A) explains the Association's history, structure and aims, and outlines the role that it plays in the global RF and microwave industry. After five years, European Microwave Week returns to Manchester and the UK....