Articles by MWJ Staff

Industry News TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. , an RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced its acquisition of TriAccess Technologies , a provider of Cable TV (CATV) and Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) integrated circuits for the amplification of high quality multimedia content, effective immediately. Previously, TriQuint served as TriAccess’ foundry...

LINC2 Filter Pro Software Release ACS has recently released a new version of its LINC2 filter synthesis software. LINC2 Filter Pro version 1.18 adds new capabilities for exporting design and analysis data to other programs. This new version can send filter analysis data, including frequency response data, to Excel...

Power Divider Model PD0218-S2 is a two-way Wilkinson power divider that was just released and covers most military and EW bands from 2 to 18 GHz. These power dividers are available in octave and multi-octave bandwidths and are available from Aeroflex/Inmet stock. The designs are based on an industry...

RF Bulk Acoustic Wave Filters for Communications Ken-ya Hashimoto, Editor RF-BAW devices employing a piezoelectric thin membrane were proposed in 1980. Although their excellent performance was well recognized, the majority of engineers believed that their applicability was limited due to extremely tight requirements given to device fabrication. However, RF-BAW...

Passive Components Download the Puzzler Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 5 A circuit that is designed to propagate signals of a desired frequency or frequency interval and to reject all other signals 7 Frequency-dependent impedance that is capable of storing but not dissipating energy 9 A component that transfers...

After many years of charting a solo course, in 2008 the RF & Hyper Europe trade show joined four others, running alongside l’Electronique, Mesurexpo, Opto and the Vision-Show . This year there were two more additions to the family for the three-day event as Espace Laser Paris and Forum...

MILCOM is the premier international conference for military communications, attracting high-level attendance from government, military, industry and academia. The event promotes communications technologies and services to key decision makers from all branches of the armed forces, Department of Defense, federal government, and the heads of multi-national forces. Microwave Journal editors will also be there to get the perspectives on the military market from exhibiting microwave component/subsystem manufacturers. Read more