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Power Transistor
RF Micro Devices (Greensboro, NC) offers the RF3931, a 48-volt, 30-watt gallium nitride (GaN) power transistor in a hermetic, flanged, ceramic package. It enables the development of high-efficiency HPAs for a range of...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Multilayer Capacitor Chips
The UQ Series multilayer capacitor (MLC) chips from AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) are suitable for RF/microwave applications ranging from 10 MHz to 4.2 GHz. With precious metal electrodes and a fine-grained,...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Signal Analyzer
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced the N9030A PXA signal analyzer, which provides frequency coverage up to 26.5 GHz and features up to 75 dB spurious-free dynamic range at 140-MHz analysis bandwidth. It also...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Chip Attenuator
International Manufacturing Services (Portsmouth, RI) offers the VGX-3725WA high-power 0.375 x 0.250" aluminum nitride chip attenuator that includes wraparound terminals for solder or epoxy attachment. It dissipates 100W at a...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Switch Matrices
Pickering Interfaces (Clacton on Sea, UK) offers 60-730 and 60-770 RF matrices that are designed for switching signals to frequencies up to 2.5 GHz. The 60-770 is a 50Ω RF matrix available in 32×8, 24×8, 16×8, and 8×8...
Products Electronics & Computers
DC-DC Converters
VPT (Blacksburg, VA) has introduced the VPT100+ 2800 Series DCDC converter modules that offer up to 100W of output power per unit and parallel operation of up to five units. They are available in single output versions of 3.3V,...
Products Electronics & Computers
Rugged Computer Servers
ZX 1-2-3 Series rugged computer servers from Z Microsystems (San Diego, CA) are available in 1.70", 3.45", or 5.15" heights for mission- ready applications. The system architecture supports any extended ATX form-factor...
Products Electronics & Computers
Gold-Plated Toggle Switches
Toggle switches from C&K Components (Newton, MA) feature 50 μ-inch selective gold contact plating and are rated for logic level to 5A resistive loads and 2A inductive loads. They feature a mechanical life to...
Products Electronics & Computers
GPS-Enabled Mobile Computer
The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech (Cincinnati, OH) has introduced the PWS-8033M handheld computer that features an XScale PXA270 624-MHz processor with 3.7" transflective VGA TFT LCD, GPS, 802.11 WiFi, and...
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LVDT Position Sensors
Macro Sensors (Pennsauken, NJ) offers HSTAR 750 Series hermetically sealed, high-temperature, rugged LVDT linear position sensors that can be used to monitor fuel/oil and control flight surfaces of airplanes and rudder...
Products Electronics & Computers
PXI Interface Modules
National Instruments (Austin, TX) has introduced AIM PXI interface modules for military and aerospace avionics applications as well as real-time and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) avionics solutions. They offer single-, dual-,...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Power for Micro Autonomous Systems
The Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) has been initiated to spur basic research in small autonomous robots, particularly in four main areas: Microsystem...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Low-Power Circuit for an Electromagnetic Warning System Sensor
Low-power sensors are important to the Army for monitoring infrastructure of the lifecycle of an operation. Isotope batteries can power and operate compact, low-power sensors for...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Effects of Differing Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor Architectures
Understanding the differing methods and materials that can be used for producing carbon nanotube (CNT)- based electronic components means an informed use of materials...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Silicon Carbide Junction Field-Effect Transistor Devices for Scalable Solid-State Circuit Breakers
Power electronic converters functioning as components in high-power systems, such as those of hybrid military ground vehicles, require fast fault...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Indoor Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This research proposed the use of inexpensive, lightweight range sensors for indoor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation. Two potential range sensors were tested for suitability and error...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Modular, Portable, and Reconfigurable Wireless Sensing System
A modular, portable, reconfigurable wireless sensor system monitors and records environmental conditions in an aircraft cabin. By designing a sensor system that can be easily...
Briefs Materials
Performance Evaluation of Commercial Carbon Monofluoride Materials in Lithium Batteries
The performance of six different commercially available carbon monofluoride (CFx) materials was evaluated at four different discharge rates. The physical...
Briefs Materials
Nanodomain Model of Polymer-Derived Ceramics
Areport discusses a model developed to explain the unusual properties of polymer- derived ceramics (PDCs), which are so named because they are made by controlled pyrolysis of cross-linked polymers. PDCs are metastable ceramics that have potential to be further developed into high-temperature materials...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Lightcraft Propulsion for Launching a Small Satellite
A study of lightcraft propulsion systems in general has led to the conception and analysis of such a system for launching a small (having a mass no more than a few kilograms) satellite into...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Eccentric Mounting and Adjustment System for Belt-Driven Devices
This design relates to an eccentric mounting and adjustment (EMA) system for belt driving, or for belt-driven devices, that is installed and operated within the restricted confines of an engine compartment, typically a motor vehicle. It satisfies two essential requirements for...
Briefs Materials
Characterization of High-Temperature Polymer Thin Films for Power Conditioning Capacitors
Wide bandgap semiconductors (e.g., silicon carbide) will enable operation of military systems at temperatures above 150 °C, which eases thermal...
Briefs Materials
RF Polymer Composites for Electromagnetic Systems
Design of polymer composites with specific engineered electromagnetic properties are of use in a variety of physical electromagnetic systems above 100 MHz. In physical electromagnetic systems such as GPS, radomes, WiFi, etc., proper choice of the material can be transformative in that it can yield...
Briefs Materials
Modeling Defects in Transparent Ceramics to Improve Military Armor
The dominant materials solution used for ballistic transparency protection of armored tactical platforms in commercial and military applications is low-cost glass backed by...
Briefs Materials
Validation of Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP)-Free Torque Seal Inspection Lacquer
The Army uses numerous adhesives and sealants, among other coating materials, that contain significant amounts of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). This work...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Wireless Network Cocast: Location-Aware Cooperative Communications with Linear Network Coding
In wireless networks, reducing aggregate transmit power and having even power distribution increase the network lifetime. The conventional direct transmission (DTX) scheme results in high aggregate transmit power and uneven power distribution. In...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
High Assurance Virtualization Engine (HAVEN)
Virtualization technology has been around since the late 1960s. Initially, it was conceived to maximize utilization of expensive hardware by running multiple instances of an operating system (OS)...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Memory-Based, Structured, Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
For air, space, and ground-based systems, there is a clear need for high-performance, lightweight, low-power, highly reliable computing on data-intensive applications. A...
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