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The New Power Brokers: Nitronex on GaN

Ray Campton from Nitronex talks to Microwave Journal about their GaN technology, the markets and the competition.
June 12, 2009
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  MWJ:   What are the most significant benefits of GaN/LDMOS/HVFET? How does this compare to other high power devices?   Nitronex: The most significant advantages of GaN over other power technologies are is its power density and high frequency response. Having several times higher power density results in...
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The New Power Brokers: Freescale Semiconductor on LDMOS

Leonard Pelletier of Freescale Semiconductor talks to Microwave Journal about their LDMOS technology, the markets and the competition.
June 12, 2009
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MWJ: What are the most significant benefits of LDMOS?   Freescale: • LDMOS has the lowest cost per watt ($/W) ratio of any of the high power RF amplifier technologies. • LDMOS has some of the best Class-AB linearity, gain, reliability, and thermal resistance numbers of any of the popular RF power...
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The New Power Brokers: HVVI on HVVFETs

Brian Battaglia (formerly) of HVVi talks to Microwave Journal about their HVVFET technology, the markets and the competition.
June 12, 2009
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MWJ:   What are the most significant benefits of HVVFET™? How does this compare to other high power devices? HVVi: The benefit of designing high power devices using a high voltage breakdown technology and a vertical device structure is high power density. The resulting power device is housed in...
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The New Power Brokers: NXP on LDMOS

Steve Theeuwen from NXP talks to Microwave Journal about their LDMOS technology, the markets and the competition.
June 12, 2009
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MWJ: What is the potential of GaN/LDMOS/HVFET technology in mobile radio communication systems. What are the most significant benefits of GaN/LDMOS/HVFET? NXP: NXP is the company that develops both LDMOS and GaN technology. LDMOS is today’s technology of choice for base station, broadcast and radar applications. Being technology leader,...
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The New Power Brokers: High Voltage RF Devices

June 12, 2009
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Among the changing landscape of RF/microwave semiconductor developments, devices with material properties that can sustain high electric breakdown are of particular interest.  Within the last six-months alone, the Journal has published over a dozen papers on Laterally Diffused MOS (LDMOS), gallium nitride (GaN), silicon carbide (SiC) SIT & MESFETs,...
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EDA Focus: May 2009

Transcript of interview of David E. Root by Microwave Journal Editor David Vye on April 16th, 2009.

May 4, 2009
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EDAFocus
May 2009

X-parameters(TM) characterize the phase and amplitudes of harmonics generated by non-linear components under large input power levels at all ports. Get the details in this MWJ exclusive interview with David Root from Agilent Technologies.

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Executive Interview with Frank Wodoslawsky

Frank Wodoslawsky, President and CEO of Weinschel Associates, talks about the company’s tradition of excellence in engineering, designing custom components for niche applications and taking on the jobs that larger companies are passing up.
March 17, 2009
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ExecutiveInterviews
March 2009

Frank Wodoslawsky, President and CEO of Weinschel Associates talks about the company’s tradition of excellence in engineering, designing custom components for niche applications, the microwave passive components and digital step attenuator markets and taking on the jobs that larger companies are passing up.

Interview with Frank Wodoslawsky


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Executive Interview with Jeremy C. Wensinger

Microwave Journal talks to the President of Cobham Defense Electronic Systems Division (CDES) about acquisition strategies, the defense market and the importance of good engineers.
February 13, 2009
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ExecutiveInterviews
February 2009



Jeremy C. Wensinger - President Designate of Cobham Electronic Defense Systems talks about the company's recent acquisitions, technical challenges, talent management plan and outlook on the defense market.

Interview with Jeremy Wensinger



Joe Thomas - President, M/A-COM Technology Solutions shares his thoughts on the company's impressive history, unique charter moving forward as an independent entity and the future.


Interview with Joe Thomas



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The Meshing of Two EM Giants

January 16, 2009
David Vye
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ANSYS Inc. develops, markets, and supports engineering simulation software used to predict how product designs will operate and how manufacturing processes will behave in real-world environments. In 2008, ANSYS acquired Ansoft LLC and expanded its domain into the RF and microwave world.
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