Articles by Microwave Journal

Philips has formed an alliance to develop Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology and products for the growing cellular infrastructure market. Philips has joined with United Monolithic Semiconductors and Fraunhofer Institut Angewandte Festkorperphysik (IAF) for collaboration in the research and development of GaN technologies. While Philips stays committed to the evolution...

RFID markets, increasingly concentrated on the Gen 2 specification, show signs of a healthy transition to the next phase of RFID implementation: full integration at the enterprise level, backed by deep management commitment. When Wal-Mart’s new CEO, Rollin Ford, addressed his troops upon taking office recently, saying, “When Gen...

Industry News Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd . announced that it has acquired privately held US-based venture company SyChip Inc ., a leader in radio frequency chip scale modules (CSM). Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is an innovator in electronics and a global supplier of passive components. Murata agreed to pay...

Rosenberger of North America LLC and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that they have signed an agreement for Rosenberger to purchase assets and to license technology used by Agilent at its Santa Rosa, CA cable assembly shop. Upon completion of the sale, Agilent will obtain these products and services from...

Z-Communications Inc. , a leader in VCO and PLL technology since 1987, announced the appointment of Mahadevan Sridharan (Sri) as its president. Sri was previously vice president of engineering and marketing of Z-Communications. He holds a PhD degree in microwave circuit design and brings with him a wealth of...

Fairchild Semiconductor has expanded its Global Power Resource™ design centers to nine worldwide with the addition of a facility in São Paulo, Brazil. This new design center responds to the burgeoning high technology markets in South America. Fairchild is focusing on the South American region, projected by WSTS to...

Published June 6, 2006 In an effort to better combine the editorial content of our magazine with our newly developed and retooled on-line presence, we have decided to expand Harlan's RF and microwave engineering advice into a monthly feature that appears in Microwave Journal. Harlan has selected one question...

Spacek Labs Inc. applauds the stellar performance of its W-band front-end components on NASA’s CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar satellite. The company provided the LO source active X6 multiplier and both the up and downconverting mixers for the first satellite-based, millimeter-wave cloud radar. The satellite was successfully launched on April...

The RF to Light 100 rose 1% last week, YTD + 10% at 2321. ADC Telecomm shares dropped 23% after saying it would buy Andrew Corp. in deal valued at $2 B. Andrew shares remained unchanged. Shares of communications services rose broadly providing a haven amid turbulence. Most market...