Temperature Conditioned Coaxial Cable Assemblies Explained March 12, 2020 By: Peter McNeil There are many applications, some emerging, that require both phase and amplitude error to be minimized. These applications include synthetic aperture radar using antenna arrays, beamforming/MIMO antenna arrays for communications, actively electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, satellite communications, interference friend or foe (IFF) radar,...

Pasternack Introduces New Double Ridge Waveguide Electromechanical Relay Switches In-Stock Double Ridge Waveguide Switches Support Broadband Frequencies up to 40 GHz IRVINE, Calif. (March 10, 2020) – Pasternack, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has just launched a new series of Double Ridge Waveguide Electromechanical Relay Switches...

Pasternack Expands Millimeter-wave Waveguide Antenna Product Line New Waveguide Antennas Include Probe, Corner Reflector, Sector, Dual Polarized Types and More! IRVINE, Calif. (March 5, 2020) – Pasternack, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has expanded its offering of mmWave waveguide antennas to address the growing number...

Review of High Power Amplifier Applications: Class AB High Power Amplifiers A class AB amplifier is a highly used amplifier design for high power RF applications, as well as other applications that require high power gain with minimal signal distortion. The main feature benefit is that Class AB amplifiers are biased so that the output...

5G Update Series: 5G Antenna Trends With the advent of the later 4G LTE releases (3GPP Release 13 and 14) and the latest 5G standard (3GPP Release 15), antennas for wireless telecommunications have begun to change substantially. Beyond the addition of sub-6 GHz frequencies for 5G, there are other technologies for enabling 5G use cases...

Pasternack Debuts New High Frequency Waveguide Straights, Bends and Twists High Frequency Ranges from 90 GHz to 220 GHz in 3 Waveguide Bands IRVINE, Calif. (January 21, 2020) – Pasternack, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has just launched a new series of waveguide straight sections,...

Pasternack Launches New Class AB High Power Amplifiers with Optional Heatsinks Models Support Popular Octave Bands ranging from 20 MHz to 18 GHz with IRVINE, Calif. (January 16, 2020) – Pasternack, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has just launched a new series of high power, Class...

RF Test Equipment Series: Oscilloscopes An Oscilloscope is an essential piece of electrical test equipment, but has a somewhat limited use with RF circuits and systems compared to digital and analog circuits. In many cases an RF engineer will default to using a spectrum analyzer for frequency domain measurements and a network analyzer to measure...

Pasternack 5G Discussion Series: Enhanced Mobile Broadband (EMBB) The planned technical expectations of 5G services are extreme in many ways. One of the most extreme use cases is the planned enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services, which are being designed to meet users growing demand for high speed data. The main features of eMBB are a...

RF Test Equipment Series: RF Anechoic Chambers RF anechoic chambers are used throughout the industry for prototyping testing and conformance testing. The purpose of an anechoic chamber is to provide both electromagnetic isolation from external sources as well as from internal RF radiation generators. Other types of testing that require complete RF isolation also depend...