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PHOENIX CIVIC PLAZA HALL MAPS Click on a image below to view the full size printable map.  You will need Adobe Acrobat to open the images, you can get Acrobat for free here .   Halls A/B Halls B/C Halls D/E  ...

THE BOOK END * Ultra-wideband Radar Technology James D. Taylor CRC Press LLC 424 pages; $99.95 ISBN: 0-8493-4267-8 Ultra-wideband radar (UWB) is finding applications in a number of diverse commercial areas. This book presents theory and ideas for future UWB systems development and shows the potential capabilities. The book...

THE COMMERCIAL MARKET Sharp Rise in Growth of Millimeter-wave Market Forecast for the Next Five Years A report from Allied Business Intelligence, "Millimeter-wave: Broadband, Automotive Radar and Semiconductors," forecasts that the market for millimeter-wave and other high frequency applications will grow from $3.5 B in 2000 to $12.4 B...

IMS2001: A Microwave Odyssey Welcome to the International Microwave Symposium Samir El-Ghazaly General Chairman, 2001 International Microwave Symposium It is hard to believe that eight years have passed since Phoenix extended its invitation to host the 2001 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium. The AdCom of the Microwave Theory and...

INTERNATIONAL REPORT Martin Streetly, International Correspondent Best of Breed T/R Module Passes Critical Technical Review Violations Raytheon's best of breed radar transceiver (T/R) module is reported as having successfully concluded its critical technical review and entered prototype manufacturer during the latter part of March. The device comes out of...

NEW LITERATURE * Data Book This 760-page fourth edition data book offers customers a comprehensive guide to the company's expanded line of products. The book contains the most current product information, specifications and application notes, as well as trimming potentiometers, precision potentiometers/position sensors, turnscounting dials, passive networks, discrete components,...

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON DARPA Invites Proposals for Innovative Electronic Warfare Technologies The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released two solicitations for creative approaches to develop and demonstrate low powered, distributed radio frequency spectrum-monitoring technologies. The program, known as "WolfPack" and valued at more than $40 M, is...

WORKSHOPS & COURSES Microwave Antenna Measurements Short Course * Topics: Design, use and evaluation of anechoic chambers, far-field, near-field and compact ranges, techniques for the determination of antenna radiation patterns, directivity, gain, polarization and impedance, phased array testing and alignment, radar cross-section measurements, and radar imaging techniques. * Site:...

PRODUCT FEATURE Cost-effective Solutions for High Density Interconnect and RF Modules Using Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic Materials DuPont Microcircuit Materials Research Triangle Park, NC C urrently, the most significant driver for packaging and high density interconnects is wireless communications. Figure 1 illustrates the projected regional growth of wireless subscribers...

PRODUCT FEATURE High Linearity SSPAs for 2.3 to 2.7 GHz Applications Stealth Microwave, a division of SSB Technologies Inc. Trenton, NJ T he demand for high speed data transmission is on the rise. Thanks to the Worldwide Web, data transmission has become the fastest growing segment of the telecommunications...