RF & Microwave Industry News

Rogers Introduces High Temperature Thermoplastic Circuit Materials

Rogers Corp. announced its new SYRON® 7000 and 7100 high-performance circuit materials, engineered for applications that demand outstanding high-temperature stability. These innovative thermoplastic circuit laminates are characterized by a considerably higher melt temperature than PTFE circuit materials, with an estimated Underwriters’ Laboratory (UL) relative thermal index (RTI) of greater...
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Agilent Makes Field Testing Easier with New 20 GHz Microwave Handheld Spectrum Analyzers

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced the N9344C and N9343C handheld spectrum analyzers (HSA), two field-ready instruments designed for technicians and engineers who install, maintain and troubleshoot RF/microwave systems, monitor the spectrum or manage interference in the field. The new analyzers make field testing easier by providing the performance of a...
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COMSOL 2011 Conference CD now Available

The newly released 2011 Edition of the COMSOL Conference CD is a compilation of multiphysics simulation projects presented by engineers, researchers and scientists at recent conferences in Boston, Paris and Bangalore.
Since 2005 COMSOL has been hosting conferences presenting research from our users at a number of different venues throughout the world. This year's CD contains over 500 Multiphysics technical papers, presentations and animations published by users of multiphysics simulation tools from around the globe, serving as a rich technical...
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NXP Introduces BGA28xx Family of Wideband Gain Blocks

The BGA28xx series of gain blocks is a recent addition to NXP’s leading portfolio of RF products, and these gain blocks offer best-in-class linearity versus current consumption.
Optimized for satellite LNBs, the BGA28xx products are also well suited for general purpose applications. These devices join other NXP discrete and integrated building blocks, including oscillators, amplifiers, switches, and biasing, to provide complete coverage for all LNB architectures. As a key benefit, the new BGA28xx gain blocks do...
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Agilent Adds Geolocation Methods Using RF Sensor Networks

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced three enhanced methods for real-time radio frequency (RF) emitter geolocation using a network of Agilent N6841A RF Sensors. The new Agilent N6854A-AG1 software estimates position of a non-cooperative intermittent or short-duration RF signal using measurements from the sensor network and calculations using enhanced time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA)...
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