Microwave Journal articles from September 2002

Microwave Journal archives from September 2002

Research@mwjournal.com. (European Supplement).(research developments in microwave industry)
September 1, 2002... Today's investment in and commitment to meaningful, commercially viable research will determine the shape and prosperity of tomorrow's microwave industry. Following its introduction in 2001 the second Microwave Journal guide to European...

FCC initiates proceeding to promote commercial development of mm-wave spectrum. (News from Washington).(71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz and 92-95 GHz bands)
September 1, 2002... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated a proceeding to examine methods to promote the commercial development and growth of spectrum in the 71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz and 92-95 GHz bands. Non-government users have never before...

Lockheed Martin selects Endwave as supplier for Comanche Radar program. (News from Washington).
September 1, 2002... Endwave announced that it has entered into a multi-million dollar contract with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire control Co. to design the RF Receiver unit for the Comanche Radar system used in the Boeing RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter. The...

Raytheon teams with Lockheed Martin for FAA air traffic control modernization. (News from Washington).
September 1, 2002... Raytheon Co. will join Lockheed Martin's national team to design and develop the next generation En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) program for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Raytheon will perform as a major subcontractor to...

Thales launches CATS. (International Report).(Compact Airborne Threat Surveyor)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... French-based contractor Thales Airborne Systems used the 22-28 July Farnborough International Air Show to showcase its latest airborne electronic warfare (EW) product, the Compact Airborne Threat Surveyor (CATS). Operating within the E- to...

AMS wins radar contracts in Ecuador, Hong-Kong and Turkey. (International Report).
September 1, 2002... The Anglo-Italian Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) joint venture has been awarded air traffic control radars contracts in Ecuador, Hong-Kong and Turkey with a joint value of approximately US$34 million. Taking the countries in the order given,...

Rosoboronexport promotes detachable COMINT system. (International Report).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Russian Federation's Moscow-based Rosoboronexport export agency is offering a detachable communications intelligence (COMINT) system that can be easily incorporated aboard any type of utility helicopter. Operating within the 30 to 2000 MHz...

Indra reveals new air defence radar. (International Report).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Spanish contractor Indra has launched a new 2-D air defence surveillance radar under the trade name RAVEN. Operating within the I/J-band (8 to 20 GHz) frequency range, RAVEN is described as being a frequency modulated continuous wave (CW) type...

Loral Skynet marks 40th anniversary of Telstar 1. (The Commercial Market).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... On July 10, 2002, LORAL SKYNET marked the 40th anniversary of the launch of TELSTAR 1, the world's first active communications satellite built by Skynet's predecessors at AT&T and Bell Laboratories. Telstar 1 was launched from Cape...

Demand for broadband access remains high. (The Commercial Market).
September 1, 2002... Broadband subscriber numbers continue to gain momentum in an effort to meet the ever-increasing demand for broadband access. Availability of broadband access will remain the biggest challenge for many regions of the world where infrastructures...

It's raining MEMS. (The Commercial Market).(Micro electro-mechanical systems )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Despite tough economic conditions overall, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) continue their upward trend, according to In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm reports that every major market has now embraced the technology and that...

Spectrum Control Inc. has acquired all of the outstanding common stock of FSY Microwave Inc. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Spectrum Control Inc. has acquired all of the outstanding common stock of FSY Microwave Inc. The purchase of FSY will enable Spectrum Control to expand its existing SPECWAVE line of ceramic-based wireless products and custom engineered...

Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification Systems. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification Systems announced the launch of its RFID European Product Information Center (EPIC), in Freising, Germany. An extension of Texas Instruments' semiconductor Product Information Centers, support...

BAE Systems. (Industry News).(new business site in Fort Worth)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * BAE SYSTEMS has opened a consolidated business site in Fort Worth, TX. The office, Fort Worth Operations, brings about 75 people and some $200 M in annual business activities into one administrative infrastructure. Specifically the new...

Lambda has moved its Melville. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Lambda has moved its Melville, NY, complex to a new facility in Plainview, NY. Operations at the 27,000 square foot design center will focus on custom power solutions with manufacturing processes including machining and transformer...

Sirenza Microdevices. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Sirenza Microdevices has established a new sales office in Stockholm, Sweden. The new office is designed to provide critical sales and applications support to strategic OEM accounts in Northern Europe. In related news, the company has been...

Technology and Devices International Inc. (TDI). (Industry News).(to move to new facility)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Technology and Devices International Inc. (TDI), headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, since its inception in 1997, is moving the entire TDI operation to a state-of-the-art facility in Silver Spring, MD. The new facility encompasses 32,000...

Funk Software announced that its Odyssey[TM] WLAN access control and security solution. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Funk Software announced that its Odyssey[TM] WLAN access control and security solution, based on the IEEE security standard 802.1x, will be carried by TerraWave Solutions, a distributor of WLAN products and custom WLAN solutions. The...

Taconic and Teradyne Inc. Connection Systems Division (TCS). (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Taconic and Teradyne Inc. Connection Systems Division (TCS) have reached an agreement to co-manufacture and market Taconic's patent-pending TacPreg[TM] material for large format PWB applications at both Teradyne's La Verne, CA, facility and...

Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector and DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC plan, under the terms of a recent agreement. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector and DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC plan, under the terms of a recent agreement, to collaborate on an advanced copper chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) formulation. Motorola will...

M-Wave Inc. announced that Crown International, a Harman International company. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * M-Wave Inc. announced that Crown International, a Harman International company, has signed a three-year supply chain management agreement with M-Wave utilizing its virtual manufacturing concept. The company expects to ship up to $2 M of...

TRL Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Richardson Electronics. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * TRL Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Richardson Electronics, has been awarded QS-9000 registration from Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

Merrimac Industries Inc. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Merrimac Industries Inc. has been granted a patent further protecting its proprietary Multi-Mix[R] Microtechnology integrated modules. The company had previously obtained patent protection for its unique processing of Multi-Mix products. The...

RF Micro Devices Inc. has begun high volume production shipments of power amplifier modules to Samsung. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * RF Micro Devices Inc. has begun high volume production shipments of power amplifier modules to Samsung. Shipments of the global system for mobile communications PA modules represent the company's first PA sales to Samsung. The PA modules...

Semflex Inc. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Semflex Inc. was awarded Lockheed Martin Corp.'s highest level of supplier recognition, the STAR Supplier Facility Award.

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Superconductor Technologies Inc. has been named to Deloitte & Touche's "Technology Fast 50" program for the Los Angeles, CA, area. The program is a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the area; rankings are based on the...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * RF Micro Devices Inc. reports sales of $103.9 M for the first quarter ended June 30, 2002, compared to $70.1 M for the same period in 2001. Net income was $2.3 M (1Cent/diluted share), compared to a net loss of $28.4 M (17Cents/share) for the...

TESSCO Technologies Inc. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * TESSCO Technologies Inc. reports sales of $69.1 M for first quarter ended June 30, 2002, compared to $59.9 M for the same period in 2001. Net income was $1.1 M (25Cents/diluted share), compared to $283 K (6Cents/diluted share) for the first...

REMEC Inc. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * REMEC Inc. reports sales of $59.1 M for the first quarter ended May 3, 2002, compared to $58.9 M for the same period in 2001. Net loss was $5.2 M (21Cents/diluted share), compared to a net loss of $9.2 M (21Cents/diluted share) for the first...

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Superconductor Technologies Inc. reports sales of $6.1 M for the second quarter ended June 29, 2002, compared to $4.2 M for the same period in 2001. Net loss was $6.6 M (29Cents/diluted share), compared to a net loss of $4.1 M...

SpaceBridge Semiconductor Corp. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * SpaceBridge Semiconductor Corp. announced the completion of a $21 M (Canadian) financing round led by SGF Tech. SGF invested $17 M in support of SpaceBridge's ongoing new product development and marketing efforts.

Antenova has secured $9.4 M of second round venture capital for its small and directional antenna technology. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Antenova has secured $9.4 M of second round venture capital for its small and directional antenna technology, from a consortium led by Quester and Cambridge Gateway Fund. This round is almost double the size of Antenova's first round in 2001....

Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR) and CMEA Ventures have completed AWR's Series B. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR) and CMEA Ventures have completed AWR's Series B preferred stock financing totaling $7.4 M. CMEA, who will be taking an equity position and providing representation on AWR's board of directors, led the round....

Marconi Applied Technologies. (Financial News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Marconi Applied Technologies announced a [pounds sterling]72 M management buyout with European venture capitalist 3i. The move will help secure jobs and aid future development of the business across its locations worldwide. Marconi Applied...

Cree Inc. (Contracts).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Cree Inc. has been awarded government contracts totaling $26.5 M, if fully funded, over a three-year period from the Office of Naval Research and Air Force Research Laboratories for silicon carbide MMIC process development. The US Navy, the...

General Dynamics Decision Systems. (Contracts).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * HUBER+SUHNER has been awarded a two-year subcontract by General Dynamics Decision Systems to supply microwave assemblies for the Navy's STANDARD Missile Program. The subcontract is valued at $550 K with work to be performed at the Essex, VT,...

TECOM Industries Inc. (Contracts).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * TECOM Industries Inc., a TRAK Communications company, has received a contract award from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Mountain View, CA. TECOM will provide both crossed polarized log periodic antenna systems and high...

RF Components division of Raytheon Co. will supply Telson Electronics. (Contracts).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * As part of a recently concluded high volume production agreement, the RF Components division of Raytheon Co. will supply Telson Electronics with the RMPA0951A-102 GaAs HBT power amplifier for the handset manufacturer's TD8600 single-band,...

Cushcraft Corp. (Personnel).(Gregory S. Czuba)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Cushcraft Corp. has named Gregory S. Czuba as its president and chief operating officer. Previously, Czuba had been president of REMEC Wireless, where he led 300 employees in the design, development and manufacture of wireless radio and...

KVH Industries. (Personnel).(Patrick J. Spratt)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * KVH Industries has hired Patrick J. Spratt as the company's chief financial officer. Spratt succeeds Richard Forsyth, who will remain with the company in the role of VP, finance. Spratt brings 30 years of finance and operations experience to...

Unity Wireless Corp. (Personnel).(Brian Nixon, Doron Nevo)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Unity Wireless Corp. announced that Brian Nixon and Doron Nevo have joined the company's board of directors. Nixon was also named to the non-executive position of vice chairman. Nixon brings over 20 years of corporate and entrepreneurial...

Schema. (Personnel).(Roni Abiri, Andrew Burroughs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Schema has appointed Roni Abiri as chief technology officer and Andrew Burroughs as chief marketing officer. Abiri brings over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry and will focus on the development of future wireless technologies....

Corning Gilbert Microwave Products. (Personnel).(Carolyn Case)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Corning Gilbert Microwave Products has named Carolyn Case VP of business development. In this new role, Case will lead the company's microwave products business and accelerate the strategic new business ventures for Coming Gilbert worldwide.

Semflex Inc. (Personnel).(Cameron Selogie)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Semflex Inc. has appointed Cameron Selogie as the company's VP and general manager. He will be responsible for developing and implementing growth and profit strategies in all functional areas of the operation.

CMC Wireless Components. (Personnel).(Chris Mosher)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * CMC Wireless Components has appointed Chris Mosher East Coast sales director. Mosher has a background in ceramic microelectronic packaging as well as a technical background in material science.

Sirenza Microdevices. (Personnel).(Sam Taban)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Sirenza Microdevices has named Sam Taban the company's strategic accounts director for Sweden and Finland. Taban will work out of the company's new sales office in Stockholm, Sweden, and brings years of experience in a succession of key...

Zentrix Technologies Inc. (Personnel).(Krista Lynch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Zentrix Technologies Inc. has named Krista Lynch to its inside sales team as account representative for the powder metals products group. In this position, Lynch is responsible for customer service of the company's copper/tungsten heatsinks...

Trompeter Electronics. (Personnel).(Joe Anderson)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Trompeter Electronics has named Joe Anderson field sales engineer for the Dixie States territory of Georgia, Alabama and East Tennessee. Prior to joining the company, Anderson was a regional sales engineer for Atlanta Cable Sales.

American Beryllia Corp. (Web Site).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * American Beryllia Corp. has introduced a new Web site, www.americanberyllia.com, that provides product designers with complete information on the company's ability to press, extrude, and fire BeO to suite a wide variety of product development...

Link Microtek. (Rep Appointments).(appointed exclusive UK distributor for UBE Electronics)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Link Microtek has been appointed as exclusive UK distributor for Japanese ceramic filter manufacturer UBE Electronics. Link Microtek will be supplying UBE's complete range of low profile surface-mount filters and high performance dielectric...

Air Products and Chemical Inc's global Electronics Division. (Rep Appointments).(Schumacher signs distribution agreement with Dow Corning)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Schumacher, a unit of Air Products and Chemical Inc's global Electronics Division, has signed a long term agreement with Dow Corning to serve as the global master distributor of three new liquid chemical vapor deposition precursors --...

Vitelec Electronics has named Charcroft Electronics as a franchised distributor. (Rep Appointments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Vitelec Electronics has named Charcroft Electronics as a franchised distributor. The move is designed to carefully match customers with the distributor that provides the best fit in terms of area of expertise. The agreement covers Vitelec's...

Phase One Microwave Inc., Rocklin, CA, has made a series of new rep appointments. (Rep Appointments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Phase One Microwave Inc., Rocklin, CA, has made a series of new rep appointments. Boston Micro-Components will handle the New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Northern Technical Sales will...

Hittite Microwave Corp. (Rep Appointments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * Hittite Microwave Corp. has appointed two new sales representative firms to serve customers in India and Taiwan. Syratron Marketing Private Ltd., headquartered in Bangalore, will handle sales in India, while Bandtek International Co. Ltd....

M-tron Industries Inc. has signed Arrow Electronics as a distributor. (Rep Appointments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... * M-tron Industries Inc. has signed Arrow Electronics as a distributor. Arrow is one of the largest distributor's of electronic components and computer products. The partnership between the two companies is designed to help raise the bar for...

Optimizing link performance, cost and interchangeability by predicting residual BER: part II -- nonlinearity and system budgeting. (Tutorial).(bit error ratio)
September 1, 2002... This is the second part of a two-part tutorial on residual BER prediction for cost optimization of oscillator phase noise and power amplifier linearity. Today's demanding digital modulations require a different type of analysis at 'normal'...

Design considerations for multimode multiband WLANs. (Technical Feature).(wireless local area networks)
September 1, 2002... Wireless local area networks (WLAN) are becoming increasingly popular in the corporate environment. They provide high speed connectivity and easy access to corporate networks without requiring wiring. Flexibility is key with WLAN capability. In...

The design of bandpass filters considering frequency dependence of inverters. (Technical Feature).
September 1, 2002... In general, practical inverters have frequency-dependent impedance or admittance. The equivalent circuits of several widely used inverters are investigated, consisting of ideal inverters plus frequency-dependent real and/or immittance parts....

SAW voltage-controlled oscillators. (Application Note).
September 1, 2002... Voltage-controlled surface acoustic wave (SAW) oscillators (VCSO) have been used for many years in both commercial and military applications. The low phase noise allows frequency multiplication to higher frequencies for use as sources, such as...

A CAD tool utilizing fast hybrid MM/FE/MoM/FD techniques. (Cover Feature).
September 1, 2002... To meet the rapidly increasing demand for advanced microwave components and antennas in wireless terrestrial and satellite-based communications, accurate and efficient CAD tools are critical. Due to efforts made during the 1990s -- the decade...

A broadband hybrid solid-state and TWT amplifier. (Product Feature).(Illustration)
September 1, 2002... Test applications that require microwave power from 1 to 18 GHz are usually addressed by two amplifiers, a solid-state unit to cover the low frequency range and a traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA) for the higher range. The input signal must...

A compact monopulse feed for tracking antennas. (Product Feature).
September 1, 2002... With the steady improvements in tracking radar technologies over the past twenty years, the diameter requirements for antennas has been reduced to match the improvements in transmitter power and receiver sensitivity. This has led to a need for...

A highly linear 17 to 24 GHz SMT power amplifier. (Product Feature).
September 1, 2002... A new surface-mount technology (SMT)-packaged power amplifier has been introduced for wireless communications applications, including millimeter-wave point-to-point radio, local multipoint distribution services (LMDS), satellite communications...

Radio-based infrastructure solutions. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This new Web site highlights customer benefits and communicates the company's dedication to customer relations. The new customer-oriented Web site features product usability and promotes customer benefits, as well. The site is user-friendly and...

Resistive products. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This Web site offers a complete line of resistor products for the wireless markets for both commercial and military applications. Included on this site are high power terminations, resistors and attenuators. Also offered are cable load...

Expanded quality and product support section. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... The newly expanded quality and product support section of this Web site provides customers with new information on the company's DC to 40 GHz RFIC/MMIC products including: qualification test reports, package, layout, tape and reel drawings and...

Synthesizers. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... ITT Microwave Systems has added details of the latest low spurious, high speed, modular synthesizers to the company Web site at www.ittmicrowave.com. The WaveCor[TM] synthesizer line gives EW and radar system designers the utmost performance...

Simplifying sensing. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This site features the company's design and development of Hall sensor integrated circuits. A wide range of magnetic sensor ICs is offered for applications such as position sensing, dented wheel position sensing, electronic motor speed...

Passive components. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This site features the company's hand-crafted quality, extraordinary reliability, passive components. Product line Consists of precision thin/thick Rim chip resistors, MOS capacitors, networks, attenuators, inductors, metallized/patternized...

New Web site. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This newly launched Web site includes a product search capability, a simple to use 'request for quotation' facility, and a local representative identifier by selection from a map. Designed for ease of use, visitors to the new Web site can also...

Agile precision frequency sources. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This Web site provides complete technical specifications for the company's PTS frequency synthesizer line. With easy, fast microsecond switching, remote programming and resolution ranges from megahertz to microhertz the synthesizers are vital...

Connectors and cable assemblies. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This new Web site offers telecom, wireless semiconductor and military designers a wide variety of standard and custom connectors and cable assemblies to choose from. In addition to a completely redesigned user interface, visitors can use the...

Isolators & circulators. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This Web site has been recently upgraded with a new product search engine and .pdf product specification sheets. Users' specific requirements will quickly translate into a part number and description, and from this a quote on price and delivery...

Wire, cables, RF/microwave connectors and cable assemblies. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This Web site features the company's high performance wire and cables, RF/microwave connectors and cable assemblies. The products are targeted at applications in the aerospace, defense electronics, wireless infrastructure, optical...

Housing components and modular packaging solutions. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This new Web site is a resource for engineers looking for housing components and modular packaging solutions. The company, which was recently acquired by Emerson Electric, engineers and delivers complete soldered and direct sealed packages. A...

Adapters on-line. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... This site has added e-commerce capability, allowing connectors and adapters to be purchased direct from the manufacturer, using Mastercard or Visa, worldwide. Adapters are the first products available in the web store, with type N connectors to...

Packaging, circuitry and materials. (Web Update).
September 1, 2002... The company has added a parametric search engine tool to the packaging section of its Web site. This feature provides another avenue for customers to use when selecting RF and microwave packages to match their application. Users simply enter...

SMT compatible multi-interface connector series. (Components).
September 1, 2002... This 1.0/2.3 multi-interface connector series features an SMT design that facilitates PCB assembly and also accommodates tight packaging density. These connectors are available with 2, 3 and 4 coaxial interface combinations in the same housing....

Dual duplexer. (Components).
September 1, 2002... The model WSDD-00009 dual duplexer is designed to suppress interference caused by close proximity commercial SMR mobile serives to in-service public safety radios. In many cases the interference causes receiver desensitization resulting in...

Power limiters. (Components).
September 1, 2002... The UX series of PIN diode power limiters for UHF and SHF bands is designed to prevent failure of the input amplifying stages of low noise receivers when radio pulse power up to 5000 W is applied in the frequency range up to 12 GHz. The series...

Mixers. (Components).
September 1, 2002... This family of GaAs MMIC mixers with LO amplifiers is designed for cellular/PCS/3V applications. These mixers are ideal for low cost infrastructure applications where a combination of small size, low LO drive and high linearity/isolation is...

Tubular filters. (Components).
September 1, 2002... The "Quick Pick" series of tubular filters is ideal for eliminating unexpected spurious response when fastest delivery is required. Frequency range is 60 MHz to 20 GHz, and the filters are available in low pass and bandpass configuration (up to...

Single sideband mixer. (Components).
September 1, 2002... The model SSB-0218 single sideband mixer covers 2 to 18 GHz with numerous IF bands available from 30 to 500 MHz. Designed for broadband applications requiring carrier and sideband suppression, the SSB-0218 is double-balanced single sideband...

DC blocking connector. (Components).
September 1, 2002... The model 8537 DC blocking connector integrates broadband DC blocking functionality into both the 2.92 and the 2.40 mm, 2-hole flange, female or male connectors. Operating frequency is 7 kHz to 45 GHz. Insertion loss is MCE/Inmet Corp., Ann...