Articles by Microwave Journal

The European Commission is funding a €6.5 M, three-year programme aimed at reducing the costs and risks associated with designing, prototyping and manufacturing integrated microsystems. Known as INTEGRAMplus, this new Framework 6 Integrated Project will be coordinated by the UK’s QinetiQ and draw on the complementary expertise and facilities...

In its latest Insight report, “Silicon-on-Sapphire Switches for Handsets: Stopgap or Disruptive Technology?,” Strategy Analytics, the research and consulting company, evaluated CMOS silicon-on-sapphire (SoS) RF switches and found that SoS has begun to disrupt established approaches to transmit-receive (T/R) switching in multi-mode, multi-band cellular handsets. Peregrine Semiconductor has shipped...

The proposed merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies has been generating a great deal of press. There are logical fits to their respective businesses. Both are large players in the wireless and wired infrastructure markets. On the wireless side, Alcatel plays primarily in the GSM family of technologies while...

After an explosive year of growth in 2005 that has seen the Bluetooth market more than double, 2006 looks set to provide another healthy year of profits for Bluetooth vendors. In its new study entitled “Bluetooth: The Global Outlook,” ABI Research concludes that the market for Bluetooth radios will...

Phones with the ability to take images, both still and video, have captured approximately 40 percent of the wireless phone market, reports In-Stat. Despite the product’s popularity, many camera phone users want higher resolution, the ability to use storage media and many of the state-of-the-art features found in modern...

Industry News William Burton Mraz William Burton Mraz , 41, of Newfields, NH, died suddenly on March 29, 2006, as the result of an automobile accident. Mraz was vice president and co-owner of UltraSource Inc., Hollis, NH, since 1997. He was in charge of new business development, inside sales,...

An alphabetical listing of companies participating in the Microwave Week exhibition and their respective booth numbers Click here to view the pdf . (File size: 972 kb)...

The layout of halls A, B and C of the Moscone Convention Center for use in conjunction with the exhibitor list to locate participating companies Click here to view the pdf . (File size: 776 kb)...

A complete day-by-day schedule of the technical presentations that compose the MTT-S, RFIC and ARFTG conferences Click here to view the pdf . (File size 14.4 MB)...

Elcoteq SE , a global provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) for the communications technology industry, is moving to new facilities in Manaus, Brazil and Juarez, Mexico this month. Relocating to these new premises enhances the manufacturing and office space, and enables the company to provide state-of-the-art services to...