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Tomographic Electrical Resistance-Based Damage Sensing in Nano-Engineered Composite Structures
Advanced composite materials are increasingly replacing metals in the aerospace industry as they offer weight-saving improvements such as high...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Uncooled Tunable LWIR Microbolometers
Uncooled infrared detectors have significant potential capabilities that have been little explored. Micro-machined uncooled detectors with tunable spectral characteristics across the long-wave infrared...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Fluid Helmet Liner for Protection Against Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury
An Advanced Combat Helmet liner design uses the novel idea of including filler materials inside channels in the liner. An energy-absorbing foam was selected for the main liner structure, and several filler material candidates of widely varying properties are being...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Performance of Steel Stud Walls Subjected to Blast Loads
Construction trends have brought about an increase in the use of cold-formed steel studs in Air Force facilities. These steel stud walls have significant potential for mitigating large...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Power Amplifier Module
Mimix Broadband (Houston, TX) offers the XP1044-QL 3W power amplifier module housed in a 7 × 7 mm package. The linear 2-stage amplifier delivers 18.5 dB of gain and 34 dBm of power at 1 dB compression point. The input and output of the device are internally pre-matched. The device is designed for WiMAX applications between...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Front-End Modules
RF Micro Devices (Greensboro, NC) offers the RF7177 and RF7178 RF front-end modules. The RF7178 module integrates a quad-band, class 12-compliant GSM/GPRS power amplifier; a pHEMT antenna switch; and receive SAW filters....
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Vehicle-Mounted Amplifier
AR Modular RF (Bothell, WA) has released the AR-75 75W auto-tuning, multi-band, vehicle-mounted tactical booster amplifier that enables troops to maintain constant communications in harsh environments. It boosts...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Monopole Antenna
Pulse, a Technitrol Co. (San Diego, CA) has announced a set of monopole antennas that deliver Zigbee 2.4 GHz and ISM bands 868 MHz, 915 MHz, and 2.4 GHz. The antennas are alternatives to using trace antennas since they occupy...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RFID Controller
Pepperl+Fuchs (Twinsburg, OH) has introduced IDENTControl Compact one- and two-head RFID Ethernet controllers that feature two onboard Ethernet connectors with a built-in switch. This allows for multiple Ethernet topologies...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Vector Signal Generators and Analyzers
National Instruments (Austin, TX) offers the NI PXIe-5663E 6.6-GHz, 2-, 3-, and 4-channel RF vector signal analyzers (VSA) and NI PXIe-5673E 6.6-GHz, 2-, 3-, and 4-channel RF vector signal generators (VSG)...
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RF Power Amplifier
BC Systems (Setauket, NY) has introduced the DA Module, an RF power amplifier for defense applications. The amplifier combines power supply/RF power amplifier integration, a frequency range of 25 to 1,000 MHz, and RF output...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Power Amplifier
Hittite Microwave Corp. (Chelmsford, MA) offers the HMC-C074 and HMC-C075 connectorized power amplifiers for military and test instrumentation applications from 10 MHz to 6 GHz. The modules are specified for operation between 10...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF/Microwave Device Tester
The SMART^E™ 5300 general-purpose test environment from Aeroflex (Plainview, NY) is a high-speed system for testing RF and microwave devices. The DC to 40 GHz system can test, monitor, and control any device under...
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High-Speed Converters
Electro Standards Laboratories (Cranston, RI) offers three configurations of high-speed ruggedized interface converters. Available as encased, board-only, or DIN rail-mounted, the fiber-to-USB interface converters are used...
Products
Plastic Circular Connectors
ITT Interconnect Solutions (Santa Ana, CA) offers the APD Series plastic circular connectors for use in wheeled armored vehicles. The connectors are lightweight, easy to assemble, and offer the additional security of...
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Switches and Isolators
Perfect Switch, LLC (San Diego, CA) has introduced the POWER-GATE line of high-current solid-state DC relays, low-voltage disconnects, and battery isolators. The switches can be configured for various applications to...
Products
Testing String Pot
The MT3A testing string pot for high-acceleration test applications in potentially wet environments is available from Celesco Transducer Products (Chatsworth, CA). The string pot is available in 3, 9, 15, and 30" stroke...
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Single-Board Computer
GE Intelligent Platforms (Charlottesville, VA) has announced the IMP3A, a 3U CompactPCI single-board computer featuring dual-core QorIQ™ processor technology from Freescale™. The IMP3A combines the processor with a...
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Data Recording and Playback System
PT (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) offers the MPR2000 radar and sensor data recording/playback system that enables integrators to expand their existing air traffic control recording systems and build IP-based...
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Coatings and Optics
Precision Glass & Optics (Santa Ana, CA) offers thin-film coatings, commercial optics, and precision optics for military and defense applications, including plano optical components from prisms to windows, beamsplitters,...
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Battery and Audio Connectors
Mil-Con (Wood Dale, IL) offers a new series of battery connectors and audio connectors. The battery connectors are available in traditional plug/socket contact styles, as well as in circular contact designs....
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Optics Replication
OPCO Laboratory (Fitchburg, MA) provides a proprietary replication process that reproduces complex optics. It transfers the profile of a precision optical surface from a master, creating an exact duplicate on a variety of...
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Line-Scan Camera
X-Scan Imaging Corp. (San Jose, CA) has introduced the XH8800 Series line-scan camera for imaging high-energy x-ray and gamma-ray scanning applications. The camera images large, dense objects such as metal casting and steel...
Articles Energy
Alternative Energy and Propulsion Power for Today's U.S. Military
The U.S. military has the most sophisticated weapons systems in the world, but they are fueled and mechanically powered by old technologies. Given the mission of the U.S....
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Antenna Design Considerations
With the advent of prolific wireless communications applications, system designers are in a position to consider the placement and performance of an antenna system. The first step in establishing antenna...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Choosing Your RF Design Environment Flow
You can’t build a house without blueprints. So why do so many RF design flows try to build a board without a schematic? Most often, this crude process comes about due to lack of availability of RF...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Designing a Sensorless Torque Estimator for Direct Torque Control of an Induction Motor
Induction motors often are the preferred choice among industrial motors due to the modern power electronics that improve their speed control. Vitally...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Development of GaN-Based Nanostructure Photon Emitters
Gallium nitride (GaN)-based wide bandgap semiconductors are very important material systems for fabrication of photon emitters in a wide range of wavelengths. In particular, the light emitters in ultraviolet (UV), blue, and green wavelengths have been developed and demonstrated in recent years....
Briefs Physical Sciences
Through-the-Wall Small Weapon Detection Based on Polarimetric Radar Techniques
Detecting concealed small weapons carried by people has received significant interest from law enforcement agencies as well as the military, most frequently for...
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