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Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurements and Circuits Thomas H. Lee Cambridge University Press • 880 pages; $80, £45 ISBN: 0-521-83526-7 This book is a response to the students, hobbyists and practicing engineers who have complained about the lack of a modern reference that balances theory...

Advanced Test Equipment 325 San Diego, CA O. Isarevich, M. Jahn Advanced Test Equipment Rentals offers effective solutions on rentals, leases and sales of test and measurement equipment including network and spectrum analyzers, cellular test sets and more. Equipment available from Agilent, Anritsu, Aeroflex/IFR, Bird, Narda, Noise/Com, Rohde &smp;...

Signal Generator The Agilent N9310A RF signal generator reinforces Agilent’s entry into the low cost test instruments market and delivers on the company’s commitment to provide leading-quality and cost-effective products to customers. The N9310A RF signal generator covers ranges from 9 kHz to 3 GHz and full range of...

CTS International , a provider of network planning, design and optimization solutions, has successfully completed its contract with Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH (H3G) for its Ellipse Microwave Planning Tool Suite. The company has bought a significant number of Ellipse Microwave Planning licenses for the planning and design of its...

The Technical University of Munich is dedicating a lecture hall to Dr. Lothar Rohde, which will honor the pioneer of radio frequency engineering on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Not only was Dr. Rohde founder of Rohde & Schwarz together with Dr. Hermann Schwarz in Munich in 1933,...

Pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (PHEMT) have shown excellent microwave and noise performance and are very attractive for millimeter-wave and optoelectronic applications. The complete characterization of these devices, in terms of noise and scattering parameters, is necessary for computer-aided design (CAD) of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) or optoelectronic...

The development of 3G services is requiring a constant increase in network capacity from the mobile operator. Dense access microwave networks, in terms of links per square kilometer and spectrum occupancy, are needed to connect UMTS nodes to the core network. Any introduction of a new link or any...

Analysis performed with traditional electromagnetic-field software might give a good sense of the operation of a microwave component from the perspective of pure electromagnetics under ideal conditions. Real-world operating conditions are not ideal, however, and the physical phenomena that affect a component’s performance often go beyond electromagnetics alone—effects from...

Most of today’s wireless applications call for a reduction in the physical size and an increase in the functionality of RF and microwave components, forcing designers to adopt a host of new materials and structures. These densely packed circuits present a number of engineering challenges from increased electromagnetic coupling...

The growing trend toward the use of smaller components in high-end microwave applications is being driven fervently by end-user demand for easier mobility and serviceability of equipment. Within the military realm especially, tactical agility in the field correlates directly to the use of certain types of equipment that are...