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Werlatone recently expanded its offering of high power combiners and directional couplers to include a new product line supporting a full 20 to 1000 MHz bandwidth. These broadband units are a perfect fit for military and commercial applications alike, as they are all designed for extreme operating conditions. The...

Instruments for Industry (IFI), S61 Series solid-state GaN-based amplifiers operate over the frequency range from 1 to 6 GHz and can be supplied at power levels from 5 to 250 W, offering all the control and communication features needed for today's automated test systems. Spurious outputs are less than...

EMC Test Software AR's SW1007 EMC test software combines radiated susceptibility and conducted immunity testing into one package to offer more control and a more intuitive interface. Built-in standards include IEC, MIL-STD, DO160, automotive standards and the ability to create your own test standards. The software has the ability...

Components X-Band Hybrid Coupler Florida RF Labs has expanded the HybriX® coupler product line with the introduction of a new X-Band hybrid coupler, HPX2F. With operating frequency of 8 to 12 GHz, HPX2F is the world's first multi-layered PTFE coupler designed for X-Band applications. HPX2F offers low insertion loss,...

Radio Wave Propagation Fundamentals Artem Saakian Radio Wave Propagation Fundamentals attempts to satisfy the growing demand in radio wave propagation study materials for students and specialists. The core materials were developed from lecture notes that have been offered by the author for graduate students at Patuxent Graduate Center of...

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In "The Innovator's Dilemma" (1997), Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, coined the term "disruptive technology" to describe innovation that changes the fundamentals of an existing market and related value network through displacement of an entrenched technology. Although the phrase connotes an abrupt transition,...

RF front-end designers have always been in need of passive devices that serve in many functional blocks in their radio designs. These devices include 90 degree hybrids, power dividers and directional couplers, to state a few. There are many others that can also be considered. Key challenges for the...

The Lockheed Martin team developing the US Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System has turned on initial power to the program's pathfinder spacecraft, known as the GPS III Non Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST). The milestone gives the team high confidence in meeting the scheduled launch of the first...

Northrop Grumman Corp. successfully demonstrated the Highly Adaptable Multi-Mission Radar (HAMMR), which is a derivative of the Defense Department's Ground Based Fighter Radar (GBFR), a multi-mission ground tactical radar designed to provide the US Army with counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) as well as air defense capabilities while "on-the-move."...