Now available from UK passive component manufacturer, Syfer Technology, is a range of SMD low-pass, band-pass, high-pass and band-stop filters for frequencies up to 6GHz. Designed to meet increased integration demands in the burgeoning RF and microwave sectors for wireless communications systems, these filters offer significant performance, space and cost advantages. They are … [Read more...]
Regulatory Agencies Upping Enforcement Actions
The FCC carries out random audits of products that have received recent TCB grants. David A. Case NCE, NCT, Cisco, Richfield, Ohio, USA The question that occasionally comes up, generally from someone not familiar with compliance, goes something like, “What will the Federal Communications Commission do to us if we are non-compliant, or how will the agency know?” Both questions … [Read more...]
MOV Planar Arrays Provide Transient Protection in Safety Critical Applications
The newest range of MOV (metal oxide varistor) planar arrays from Syfer Technology provides comprehensive protection from lighting strikes and other transients in safety critical applications including the military and aerospace industries. These application specific MOV planar arrays are typically built into military-style filtered connectors, including circular shell sizes 8 … [Read more...]
Giant Blanket as Lunar Shield
The radiation from solar flares and cosmic rays and their potential for causing DNA damage clearly pose a threat to astronauts spending extended periods of time on the Moon. Now a team of engineering students from North Carolina State University (NCSU) has designed a “lunar textsheild”—a layered blanket made of lightweight polymer material. The outer service of the shield is a … [Read more...]
COTS Processor Platform with Mobile Pentium
The DuroCOR® 810 from Parvus Corporation is a rugged military-grade processor system crafted for high reliability applications requiring MIL-STD-810 F environmental compliance. It withstands extreme temperature, shock/vibration, and ingress conditions. It features protection against dust exposure, water immersion, EMI, and corrosion. This field-ready mission computer is well … [Read more...]
Nanocomp Technologies Wins Two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contracts from United States Air Force
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 10:18 am EDTCONCORD, NH –Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced that it has been awarded two new contracts by the United States Air Force under the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.The light weight and … [Read more...]
Air Force Looks to Nanotechnology for Shielding
NH-based Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. has won two SBIR (small business innovation research) contracts from the U.S. Air Force. The light weight and conductive nature of CNTs (carbon nanotubes) have made them ideal candidates for aerospace applications although practical applications have been limited. Under the terms of the first SBIR, Nanocomp will continue to develop CNT-based … [Read more...]
MORE AMPLIFIER PRODUCTS
TWT Amplifiers Meets Demands HIRF EMC Testing in Commercial AircraftA series of new high-power, pulsed TWT (traveling wave tube) instrumentation microwave amplifiers has been introduced by UK-based TMD Technologies, Ltd. These amplifiers have been optimized to meet the latest stringent demands of high intensity RF (HIRF) EMC testing. The PTC6000 and the PTC7000 TWTAs between … [Read more...]
Reverberation Chamber for EMC Testing
The reverberation chamber provides the most realistic simulation/equivalency for electronics functioning within a cavity Er-Ping Li, Ph.D.; Xing-Chang Wei, Ph.D., Electromagnetic Labs, Singapore National Institute of High Performance Computing Singapore Introduction The problem is familiar, but growing. The widespread and ever-growing use of electronic devices with high-speed … [Read more...]
Major Aerospace and Defense Cuts
Aerospace giant Boeing has announced that it will shed 10,000 employees, or more than six percent of its workforce. Workforce reductions will involve attrition, retirements, reductions in contract labor, and layoffs. This word of job cuts comes amid media reports of significant cancellations of orders for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, once touted as the aircraft that would dominate … [Read more...]
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