RF & Microwave Industry News

M/A-COM Showcasing New Products for Networks, Aerospace and Defense, and Multi-Market Applications

M/A-COM Technology Solutions , a leading supplier of high performance analog semiconductor solutions for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications, is showcasing a broad portfolio of new products for Networks, Aerospace and Defense, and Multi-Market applications. Product solutions on display in M/A-COM Tech’s Booth #422 include: • A complete chipset...
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DuPont Microcircuit Materials Presents New LTCC Materials Developments at IMAPS 2011

DuPont Microcircuit Materials , part of DuPont Electronics & Communications, is highlighting two key technical developments at the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society’s 44 th International Symposium on Microelectronics, Oct. 9 to 13, 2011, in Long Beach, CA. The company’s newest product development, DuPont™ GreenTape™ 9K5 low temperature co-fired...
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High Efficiency L-Band GaN Power Amplifier

This article illustrates the design and development of a 60 W pulsed Class F power amplifier over the frequency range of 1.25 GHz ± 50 MHz. The power amplifier has been designed and fabricated using a GaN HEMT transistor. This amplifier shows a competi...
The rapid growth of wireless communications, as well as space-borne systems, leads to the increasing demand of low power, high efficiency systems. High efficiency is the prime requirement for any space-qualified transmitter or wireless communication systems. Higher efficiency means greater output power with reduced power dissipation. Achieving higher efficiency...
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Direct Measurement-based Modeling of Ultra-low Resistance Passive Components

This article presents a methodology for modeling the resistance of MIM capacitors, directly from measured S-parameters, using an ultra-low impedance measurement known as the “S21-shunt” technique. It leverages from the work previously introd...
Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors, (MIM caps) have played a vital role in the design of a wide variety of MMIC circuits, particularly where low loss/high-Q is a critical design requirement. Because of their ease of fabrication, they can be found in the design kits of both silicon and compound semiconductor...
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Design of V-Band Millimeter-wave CMOS Low Noise Amplifier

A V-Band millimeter-wave CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) fabricated with the 0.13 mm process is presented. A three-stage cascaded common source structure is adopted. The measurement results of the fabricated LNA show the peak performance at 50 GHz exhib...
In recent years, the 7 GHz of contiguous bandwidth have been opened for unlicensed use at millimeter-wave frequencies around 60 GHz (known as V-Band) in the US and Japan. High rate wireless communication technology operating at millimeter-wave frequencies has been an interesting topic with various applications and tremendous potentials....
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NMDG Releasing Nonlinear Extension Kit for VNAs

Using NMDG extension kits for vector network analysers, the user is able to characterise the nonlinear behaviour of HF components in time and frequency domain under realistic conditions, even in a non-50 Ohm environment. However, from an engineering point of view, the large signal network analyser (LSNA) techniques are...
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