The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...
Strong wireless demand resulted in growth of more than 25% in the gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC market in 2015, according to The Information Network in its report 'The GaAs IC Market'. Every cell phone contains power amplifiers (PA), ...
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Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes both passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) has added new millimeter-wave (mm-wave) waveguide frequency mixers available in six down-conversion and six ...
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Accel-RF Instruments Corp of San Diego, CA, USA (which produces turn-key reliability and performance characterization test systems for compound semiconductors) says that it has 'unplugged' the RF SMART Fixture from its automated test ...
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University of Glasgow and University of Cambridge in the UK have claimed the highest frequency performance to date for gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on low-resistivity (LR) silicon (Si) [A. Eblabla et al, ...
Coaxial connectors help carry radio frequency signals. Also called coax connectors, these components are attached to the end of a coaxial cable. Made of metal, they are usually plated with gold, tin or nickel. Most coaxial connectors ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp says that on 1 June it will begin shipping a compact 40Gbps electro-absorption modulator with laser diode-transmitter optical sub assembly (EML-TOSA) for optical transmission (in the 1.55-micron ...
The fourth ElectroTest Expo is taking place on Tuesday 26th March at the Rose (Ageas) Bowl in Southampton. The exhibition and seminar sessions focus on PCB debug and test technologies and is organised by a group of test and measurement ...
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Monitoring and measurement through ingestible, implanted, and body-worn wireless sensors can improve healthcare, and if those sensors can support continuous data streaming, more real-time information will be available for analysis. ...
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The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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Researchers in the USA have developed radio frequency switches based on nitride semiconductor voltage-controlled capacitors (varactors) [F. Jahan et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 9 January 2013]. The team, consisting of engineers from ...
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University of Glasgow and UniversitéParis researchers have demonstrated for the first time RF performance of 50nm gate-length diamond field-effect transistors(FETs)[Stephen A.O.Russell et al,IEEE Electron Device Letters,published ...
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