RF & Microwave Industry News

Rogers' PES introduces new curamik CoolPerformance Plus coolers

Rogers Corp.’s Power Electronics Solutions (PES) group has introduced its latest high-performance cooling material, curamik® CoolPerformance Plus. curamik CoolPerformance Plus is an advanced liquid-cooled material designed to dissipate large amounts of heat and provide reliable thermal management of high-power laser diodes and other heat-generating optical devices.


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Cobham and RFHIC to develop new GaN solid state radar

Cobham and RFHIC will jointly develop GaN High Power Amplifier (HPA) modules that will be integrated into a prototype 175 kW solid-state transmitter. Development activities under this Memorandum of Agreement will be executed by Cobham Integrated Electronics Solutions, a business unit of CAES at its Exeter, N.H. site.


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EDI CON China 2016 adds RF Silicon on Insulator track and keynote

EDI CON China 2016, taking place April 19-21 in Beijing at the China National Convention Center (CNCC), is pleased to announce that GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Peter Rabbeni, Sr. Director, RF BU Business Development & Product Marketing, will kick off the newly added RF Silicon on Insulator (SOI) Technology Track with a keynote talk entitled, “RF SOI: Revolutionizing Radio Design Today and Driving Innovation for Tomorrow.” 


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Technion students design synthetic aperture radar simulator using NI AWR Design Environment

The students at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel have successfully designed a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) using NI AWR Design Environment™. The design challenge was to build an efficient, easy-to-use SAR simulator that would connect to MATLAB for signal processing and that could handle many targets on the surface and then use MATLAB to calculate the object shapes.


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Keysight introduces industry’s most usable browser head for InfiniiMax II probes

Keysight Technologies Inc. introduced the N2839A differential browser head for use with InfiniiMax I/II Series probe amps, bringing the measurement fidelity of a solder-in probe head to hand-held browsing. When used with the InfiniiMax II 1169A probe amplifier, the N2839A gives users 12 GHz of bandwidth, making this the world’s most usable hand-held browser solution for measuring high-speed differential or single-ended signals.


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Raytheon to display groundbreaking new Patriot radar at US Army trade show

The world's newest missile defense radar is gearing up for a road trip. Raytheon Co. funded, developed and built a new Gallium Nitride (GaN) powered Active Electronically Scanned Array main antenna for the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System. Raytheon will exhibit its prototype Patriot full-scale, GaN-based AESA radar in the company's booth at the Association of the United States Army's Global Force Symposium and Exposition in Huntsville, Ala., March 15-17.


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