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Microwave laminates, or substrates, have been used in the industry for approximately 50 years. Although they can be thought of as the materials used in microwave printed circuit boards, they do far more than provide mechanical support for components and copper interconnections. In a real sense, these materials form...

The gigahertz era in consumer electronics has catalyzed the convergence of RF and microwave applications with mainstream large-scale semiconductor technology. This merging of technology has brought performance, manufacturability and time-to-market requirements into the forefront of a world once driven solely by design-to-specification. Stand-alone microwave circuits are rapidly moving to...

The first time frequency control devices were used in an automobile was in the 1930s when car radios from the Galvin Manufacturing Corp. were installed. Galvin Manufacturing was later renamed Motorola (the prefix “motor” was chosen because of the company’s early involvement in the automotive industry) and later the...

In most fields today, electronic devices must meet strict certification requirements to ensure that humans are not exposed to excessive levels of radiated energy. If sufficiently high levels of power, quantified as the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), are dissipated in human tissue, the result could be tissue heating and...

The demand for products and systems that can operate at higher frequencies is increasing with the higher frequency bands being utilized for important applications such as vehicle distance radar (77 GHz) and aerospace and defense applications (94 GHz). This creates demand for higher frequency measurement and testing. To address...

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...

A new series of L-band (1200 to 1400 MHz) and S-band (2700 to 3100 MHz and 3100 to 3400 MHz) power solution modules (PSM) has been introduced by Microsemi PPG for pulsed radar applications. These PSMs offer two to three times more output power over the single transistors currently...