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Six partners from the semiconductor and solar industries are joining forces in the NEULAND project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, to explore new avenues for the efficient use of electricity from renewable sources. NEULAND stands for innovative power devices with high energy efficiency...

Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), and Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency, signed a new Cooperation Agreement that will extend the partnership between ESA and Canada until 2020.The two space agencies have enjoyed a 30-year partnership that has led to many successful...

When it comes to mobile network infrastructure discussions, LTE is the name on everyone's lips. Yet the very meaning of the acronym—"Long-Term Evolution"—is a hint that it is not going to happen overnight. LTE's deployment as the mainstay 4G technology will take place gradually, and will not even begin...

Innovative Micro Technology announced the addition of a new geometry point in its technology roadmap for Through Silicon Vias (TSV). Joining the copper-filled 15 by 60 micron depth TSV configuration that has been in production for nearly two years, IMT has been sampling its 50 by 250 micron copper-filled...

Rapid Chinese TD-SCDMA rollouts and the often-maligned GSM/GPRS/EDGE equipment markets have benefited the base station RF power amplifier and RF power device markets. GSM/GPRS/EDGE RFPAs and devices are still shipping in the millions. The Asia-Pacific region is presently accounting for more than 50 percent of the RF power semiconductor...

The worldwide market for digital set-top boxes—including hard-to-track free-to-air satellite (DBS) boxes—will grow from 205 million in 2010 to 226 million in 2015. Shipments in North America and Western Europe are falling following largely successful digital transitions, while Asia-Pacific, Latin-America and Eastern Europe all see significant growth. Set-top boxes...

In Memory of... Microwave Journal's co-founder and first editor, Ted Saad passed away January 25th, 2011. In addition to putting his stamp on this magazine, Saad had a long and influential career that touched many in the industry and microwave technical society. Saad worked at MIT Radlab between 1942...

The weakest signal that a wireless receiver can recover is defined by its sensitivity 1 where BW is the bandwidth in Hz, SNR the required signal to noise ratio and F the system noise figure. A low-noise amplifier (LNA), as its name implies, improves the receiver sensitivity by reducing...

AWR® Corp. released a new product within its AWR Connected™ portfolio, specifically an ODB++ PCB layout verification design flow for connecting popular third-party PCB tools with its Microwave Office® (MWO) and AXIEM™ software solutions. The ODB++ PCB flow specifically moves layout data from a customer's PCB vendor tool into...

LeCroy Corp. , a supplier of oscilloscopes and serial data test solutions, announced that its 45 GHz WaveMaster 845 Zi-A oscilloscope was the winner of the annual DesignVision Award presented by UBM Electronics in the Test and Measurement Equipment category at DesignCon 2011. The WaveMaster 845 Zi-A, the world's...