Articles by Microwave Journal Staff

According to In-Stat, after years of promises, Ultra-wideband (UWB) devices are finally here. Based on short range, high data rate radio technology, most early UWB-enabled devices deliver in the range of 40 to 100 Mbps, with future devices delivering much higher speeds. The first UWB device to hit the...

Over the next few years, the GPS chipset market will be driven by integration into mobile devices, including personal navigation devices (PND), cellular headsets, mobile PCs and a variety of portable consumer electronics (CE) devices, reports In-Stat. The most promising portable CE categories include ultra mobile devices (UMD), handheld...

Industry News Theodore “Ted” L. Kozul died November 6 th , in his home after a long illness. He was 80 years old. Ted was the founder and president of Baytron Co., one of the first companies to offer a full line of millimeter-wave components. His products looked like...

RF and Microwave Cable Assemblies ESM Cable Corp. manufactures RF and microwave cable assemblies for the defense/aerospace, telecom, medical and test markets. These assemblies operate everywhere from the racks of telecommunications equipment to multi-platform IED jammers and even the UAV’s flying high overhead. For over 10 years, ESM Cable...

4 to 8 GHz Solid-state Amplifier AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation has increased its offering of broadband amplifiers with a new family covering 4 to 8 GHz. This family includes models available in 15, 35, 60, 90 and 120 W. This amplifier family is suitable for wireless test applications and EMC...

Lightwave Catalog This catalog provides detailed product and application information on Agilent’s latest solutions for photonic testing of next-generation low cost optical devices and digital microwave solutions (BERTs, DCAs) for high speed devices. It covers photonic and transceiver measurement solutions that offer industry-leading performance for fastest time-to-market in next-generation...

RFID: A Guide to Radio Frequency Identification V. Daniel Hunt, Albert Puglia and Mike Puglia Wiley Interscience • 238 pages; $60 ISBN: 978-0-470-10764-5 Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a wireless communication technology that enables users to uniquely identify tagged objects or people. This book provides a broad overview...

The papers presented at the SJ Technologies sponsored ARMMS RF & Microwave Society conference in Corby, UK, on 5 and 6 November, covered a wide range of topics in the RF and microwaves sector. The Society is a non-profit, independent professional society comprised of electronics engineers with an interest...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Melville, New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. , has received $5.6 M in orders from a domestic prime contractor to supply broadband, solid-state, high power radio signal jamming amplifiers. These amplifiers, which include the latest solid state transistor technology and provide for very...

Raytheon Co. components built under contract to the Boeing Co., the prime contractor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, played key roles in the destruction of a ballistic missile target during GMD’s latest successful flight test conducted September 28, by the US Missile Defense Agency. Raytheon-built Exoatmospheric Kill...