ABI Research has just released a report that looks at the microwave tube market and concludes that it is currently safe from losing significant market share to new high power solid-state devices such as GaN. This was the same conclusion offered by David Zavadil of Teledyne MEC back in 2008. Here's Zavadil's explanation why.
This free live event features leading representatives from European defence agencies, market analysts and industry leaders discussing current initiatives, market trends and strategies impacting the European Defence/Security sector.
European Microwave Week 2010 EuMW 2010, September 26 - October 1, 2010 Paris, France
The European Microwave Week consists of four conferences: The European Microwave Conference (EuMC); The European Wireless Technology Conference (EuWiT); The European Radar Conference (EuRAD); The European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC). In addition to the conferences, the Week showcases a variety of workshops and short courses as well as the European Microwave Exhibition - the largest trade show on RF and microwaves in Europe.
Passive Component Technology September 21, 2010 Free 1-hour Webinar
EuMW 2010 September 26-October 1, 2010 Paris
Products
Rogers Corp. Teams New RO4460 Prepreg with RO4360 Laminates
The company, a global leader in the development and manufacture of high performance, specialty-material-based products has developed the perfect prepreg match to its popular RO4360™ laminates: RO4460™ prepregs. Both materials feature consistent dielectric constant (Dk) of 6.15 ± 0.15 and low dielectric loss of 0.003 at 2.5 GHz.
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation:Hybrid Power Amplifier Modules AR’s new line of wideband, hybrid power amplifier modules (HPMs) cover the 6 to 18 GHz frequency range and are the result of combining microelectronic technology with the latest developments in thin film substrates. These hybrid modules require a single DC voltage source and are 50 ohm cascadable building blocks with output powers up to 37 dBm.
Skyworks Solutions Inc.:SMP1324-087LF and SMP1371-087LF: shunt PIN diodes These series or shunt devices combine very low insertion loss, good isolation, unprecedented series diode power handling and low distortion in a very small package, and are designed for high-volume commercial, industrial and military radio communications systems such as land mobile radios, tactical radios, avionics and infrastructure markets.
Rohde & Schwarz:DST200 RF Diagnostic Chamber The compact R&S DST200 RF diagnostic chamber makes it easy for developers of wireless devices such as mobile phones to perform reproducible radiated RF measurements on the workbench. The benchtop chamber simulates conditions that approximate free space and features a 700 MHz to 6 GHz broadband test antenna especially designed for the chamber.
RFHIC Corporation:GaAs p-HEMT LNA for S-band Applications These low noise amplifiers are built with GaAs p-HEMT die attached on a ceramic thick film substrate. Alumina, the most commonly used type of ceramic, is what RHIC has chosen due to its relatively high thermal conductivity. These LNAs are focused on giving the lowest noise possible; exhibiting low noise performance of better than 1 dB noise figure.
AKON Inc.:Miniature RF Switches AKON offers a line of high performance, high speed and high isolation miniature RF switches. These switches are available in standard configurations such as SPST through SP8T and higher. Switching speeds are typically in the order of 100 nanoseconds, but units under 10 ns are also available.
Aeroflex/Weinschel Inc.:8310/8311-Series Programmable Attenuator Units Representing a new concept in programmable attenuation for bench test and subsystem applications, standard 8310 Series designs house and control various Aeroflex/Weinschel Programmable Attenuator Models (3200T, 150T, and 4200 Series) via front panel controls or standard communications interfaces including GPIB (IEEE- 488) and RS-232/RS-422 /RS485.
Donn Mulder, Vice President and General Manager of Microwave Measurements Division at Anritsu, talks about his company’s research, development, manufacturing, and marketing in light of evolving wired and wireless communication systems.
This month, we asked several of our contributing experts to "The Masters of MIMO" August cover story to respond to audience questions from our last webinar on MIMO. Below are the individual replies from repesentatives from SATIMO, MI Technologies, Spirent. and Agilent.
Various experts from Rogers Corporation provide technical advice and information about RF/microwave materials in this new Blog. Trade offs between different materials, material properties and more are covered.
Modelithics has released the latest version of their popular linear and non-linear device and system level component model Libraries, v7.0. The Modelithics Library version 7.0 encompasses Modelithics popular CLR, NLT, and NLD Sub-Libraries.
Satimo presents a Spatial Fading Emulation technique, using an anechoic chamber, a channel emulator, and a mapping of geometry based stochastic channel model (GSCM) by the channel emulator to validate MIMO wireless devices.
AR’s new line of wideband, hybrid power amplifier modules (HPMs) cover the 6 to 18 GHz frequency range and are the result of combining microelectronic technology with the latest developments in thin film substrates. These hybrid modules require a single DC voltage source and are 50 ohm cascadable building blocks with output powers up to 37 dBm.
These series or shunt devices combine very low insertion loss, good isolation, unprecedented series diode power handling and low distortion in a very small package, and are designed for high-volume commercial, industrial and military radio communications systems such as land mobile radios, tactical radios, avionics and infrastructure markets. 
The compact R&S DST200 RF diagnostic chamber makes it easy for developers of wireless devices such as mobile phones to perform reproducible radiated RF measurements on the workbench. The benchtop chamber simulates conditions that approximate free space and features a 700 MHz to 6 GHz broadband test antenna especially designed for the chamber.
These low noise amplifiers are built with GaAs p-HEMT die attached on a ceramic thick film substrate. Alumina, the most commonly used type of ceramic, is what RHIC has chosen due to its relatively high thermal conductivity. These LNAs are focused on giving the lowest noise possible; exhibiting low noise performance of better than 1 dB noise figure.
AKON offers a line of high performance, high speed and high isolation miniature RF switches. These switches are available in standard configurations such as SPST through SP8T and higher. Switching speeds are typically in the order of 100 nanoseconds, but units under 10 ns are also available.
Representing a new concept in programmable attenuation for bench test and subsystem applications, standard 8310 Series designs house and control various Aeroflex/Weinschel Programmable Attenuator Models (3200T, 150T, and 4200 Series) via front panel controls or standard communications interfaces including GPIB (IEEE- 488) and RS-232/RS-422 /RS485. 
Donn Mulder, Vice President and General Manager of Microwave Measurements Division at Anritsu, talks about his company’s research, development, manufacturing, and marketing in light of evolving wired and wireless communication systems. 
Christopher Marki of Marki Microwave files his thoughts on patents and makes his case against them in his latest blog entry.
Various experts from Rogers Corporation provide technical advice and information about RF/microwave materials in this new Blog. Trade offs between different materials, material properties and more are covered.
