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Trade shows are one of the best ways to get in front of your customers and prospects. In a comprehensive 2008 survey, Trade Show Trends , conducted by Exhibit Surveys Inc., the average exhibitor was spending $159 per attendee, “up $30 or 19 percent from 2006 when they spent...

More and more companies are using media sharing sites such as YouTube, Yahoo!Video and Vimeo in order to broaden their digital footprint. With a little strategy, these sites can be used as viable lead generation tools for your company. No doubt you have probably heard a lot about search...

One of the latest social networking sites taking hold in the business world is Twitter. At IMS 2009 we had a handful of companies Twittering about the latest product releases, news and happenings on the show floor. We encouraged everyone to use the hashtag (or keyword) #IMS2009 and had...

Surveys can be interesting critters. They either reinforce or disprove one's beliefs, which in turn leads to great clarity or confusion about how to proceed. The devil is in the detail when it comes to conducting a survey and interpreting the results. First of all, ask yourself - Is...

This year, Microwave Journal ’s editorial focus will be on the microwave supply chain. Our reporting will consider trends in part specification, marketing and procurement as well as the relationship between suppliers and end-users, as this topic relates to the monthly theme. In February, our “High Frequency Components, Boards...

Throughout the Microwave Journal magazine and website, our audience is introduced to a wide array of new products. In the magazine, our “New Waves” section features a listing of these new products along with a vendor supplied graphic, short product review and company contact information. Perhaps you have noticed...

It is a whole new world out there for defense companies. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets are under greater scrutiny, and pressure is mounting to reduce spending and change the way the US military does business. Yet new requirements and increasing demands are placed on the military every day,...

The measurements needed for radar differ depending on the job to be done and the type or radar to be characterized. Modern radar designs incorporate complicated pulses that present significant measurement challenges. Improvements to range, resolution and immunity to interference have implemented complex technologies such as phase modulated pulses,...

Microstrip bandgap structures, such as photonic bandgap (PBG), electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) and defected ground structure (DGS), have recently been used to suppress high-order harmonics in antennas, amplifiers and oscillators 1-4 because they are simple to fabricate and have excellent filtering performance. For example, Radisic 1 introduced a wideband power...

As a result of further research, antennas using metamaterials have been published. Planar leaky-wave antennas using transmission-line metamaterials have been reported with continuous beam scanning. 1-3 Feeding networks of microstrip patch arrays using transmission-line metamaterials have been designed, 4 which removes the inherent pattern squint resulting from the traditional...