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 If you are like me, you spend a lot of time reading
articles from technical magazines. Sometimes I read the entire article, but usually I
just scan the text for highlights and look at the schematics, block diagrams, and charts
/ graphs. Often, I want to go back and find an article but cannot recall where I saw
it. A Google search will usually eventually reveal a hyperlink to the article, but a
lot of times it takes a lot of digging. Since my key interests are not necessarily the
same as RF Cafe visitors, an attempt will be made to catalog all of them. If there is
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July
Machine Learning: The Magic is How it Works
William G. Wong
Measure - and Reduce - Output-Voltage Ripple for
DC-DC Regulators
Weiran Dai
Thermal Modeling: How to Meet EV High-Power
Charging Requirements
Marco Wolf
June
Forget the Spark Plug: Use a Laser to Ignite ICE
Gasoline
Bill Schweber
How to Efficiently Power Your Smart Gas/Water
Meter
Chinmay Honrao and Nazzareno Rossetti
Probing Methods that Boost Power-Conversion
Measurement Accuracy
Ahmed Eisawy
Improving Factory Throughput and Efficiency with
IO-Link
Lou Frenzel
Laser "Tricked" into Producing, Receiving
Modulated Wi-Fi Band RF Signals
Bill Schweber
Maximizing Efficiency in IoT Projects
Tom Denholm
Protect RS-485 Transceivers from Electrical
Surges - and Maintain Signal Integrity
Lou Frenzel
May
Optimize USB 3 by Understanding How it Works
Colin Walls
AI Enables Early Predictions of Li-Ion Battery
Life
Bill Schweber
The Front End: Taking the Mystery Out of "Minimum
Stable Gain"
Kendall Castor-Perry
Add Capacitive-Touch Technology to Your Control
Design
Electronic Design Staff
April
Piezo-Based Energy Harvesting for Medical
Implants May Transcend Alternative Approaches
Bill Schweber
Shielded Anode PIN Diode Breathes New Life into a
1950s Technology
Robert Bayruns, Ashok Ramu, and Michael M.A. Francois
Gain-Bandwidth Product is Not (Always) Constant
Hugo Coolens
Ultrasound: Don't Be Blinded by Your Amplifier's
Slow Overload Recovery
Jim Chapman and Nazzareno Rossetti
Low-Power AFE Tackles Portable Electrochemical
Measurements
Bill Schweber
Electronic Skin Emulates Hand's Sensing of
Pressure, Shear Force
Bill Schweber
March
Simple Design Equations For Thermoelectric Coolers (Revisited)
W. Stephen Woodward
Autonomous Vehicle Timing is a MEMS Thing
Piyush Sevalia
Beat the Heat: Build a Compact, Multi-Standard Dual USB Charger
Nazzareno Rossetti, Adrien Gambino
Fluoride-Based Batteries Seek to Surpass Lithium Cells
Bill Schweber
How Man-Made Neural Networks Emulate Biology to Advance AI and
ML
Robert Beachler
February
Nanoscale MEMS Resonator Structure Yields Controllable MHz-Range
Filter, Isolator
Bill Schweber
Simplified Wi-Fi Service Discovery
Stephen McCann
Nanoscale MEMS Resonator Structure Yields Controllable MHz-Range
Filter, Isolator
Bill Schweber
10 Things You Must Know About Benchtop Digital Multimeters
Steven Lee
Designing to Achieve Medical Temperature Measurement Accuracy
Lou Frenzel
Added Hysteresis Enhances DC-DC Converter Performance
Reed Kaczmarek
January
Troubleshoot the Wiring to Your Battery-Cell Test Fixture
Bob Zollo
Path to Systems: A SiP of Reliable Advantage - Systems Under
Test
Neeraj Dantu, Masood Murtuza, Erik Welsh, and Gene Frantz
Resonant Electro-optical Temperature Sensor is Immune to
Interference
Bill Schweber
The Chronicles of GND (Part 4): Supply Currents - When
Simulations are Both Correct and Wrong
Kendall Castor-Perry
Electronics Meets Textiles in an Array of Innovative Guises
Bill Schweber
Impulse-Controlled Sequential Switch Without Active Electronics
Marek Irek
Silicon-Based Electro-Optical Gyroscope Overcomes SNR
Deficiencies
Bill Schweber
June
An Analytical Model of Quad Cable to 1 GHz
Kenneth S. Schneider
May
Designing Power Amplifiers Using
Maximum-Efficiency Lines and Constant Power Contour
Ivan Boshnakov, Pieter Abrie, and Malcolm Edwards
How Does Match Affect My Power Measurement?
Orwill Hawkins
April
Delivering the World’s First Digital Radar on
Chip (RoC)
HFE Staff
Understanding Low Loss Coaxial Cables and Their
Applications
Dan Birch
March
Multi-Beam Antennas: Increased Wireless Capacity with Enhanced
Spectral Efficiency
John Howard and Steve Jalil
February
Smoothing Electric Fields in Microwave Ovens
Dr. Robert L. Eisenhart
January
R&S "Value Instruments" May Make a Big Difference
Tom Perkins
June
Solving the Linearity and Power Conundrum: Carbon
Nanotube RF Amplifiers
Philbert F. Marsh, Christopher Rutherglen, Alexander A. Kane, Tyler A. Cain, Kosmas Galatsis, Stephen A. Maas, and Mohammed R. AlShareef
Broadband Power Amplifier Design Using Extended
Resistive-Reactive Continuous Class F Modes
Gang Liu, Fuqi Mu, Yongqing Leng, Yang Li and Xinli Cui
Fabricate PCBs at Your Desk
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG
All-Digital Antennas for mmWave Systems
Mike Kappes
Economical Spectrum Analysis for 5G mmWave
OML Inc.
Integrated 140 GHz FMCW Radar for Vital Sign
Monitoring and Gesture Recognition
K. Vaesen, A. Visweswaran, S. Sinha, A. Bourdoux, B. van Liempd and Piet Wambacq
Adopting the 64 to 71 GHz Band for Fixed Wireless
Applications
Sivers IMA
May
A New Generation of Integratable Frequency Agile
Bandpass Filters
Fred Schindler, John Nielsen, Dennis Rosenauer and Tom Raschko
Tuning Electrically Short Antennas for Field
Operation
Kazimierz Siwiak, TimeDerivative Inc. and Ulrich L. Rohde, Informatics, Cybersecurity; Federal University of the Armed Forces of Germany
Design and Production Challenges of Wire-Wrapped
Ferrite RF Passives for Broadband Applications
Richard Bay-Ramyon
From Waveforms to MIMO: 5 Things for 5G New Radio
Alejandro Buritica
Designing Wide Instantaneous Bandwidth Doherty
PAs for Cellular
Tim Das
Characterizing Circuit Materials at mmWave
Frequencies
John Coonrod
Approaching the 5G mmWave Filter Challenge
Peter Matthews
Compact CPW-Fed Dual-Band Linearly and Circularly
Polarized Monopole Antenna for WiMAX and WLAN
Qiang Chen, Hou Zhang, Xue-liang Min, and Lu-Chun Yang
April
GaN SSPA Technology for Space-Based Applications
Mario LaMarche
Designing a Narrowband 28 GHz Bandpass Filter for
5G Applications
David Vye, John Dunn, Dan Swanson, Jim Assurian and Ray Hashemi, Reactel Inc., and Philip Jobson
Multi-Beam Phased Array with Full Digital
Beamforming for SATCOM and 5G
Divaydeep Sikri and Rajanik Mark Jayasuriya
RF Transceivers Enable Forced Spurious
Decorrelation in Digital Beamforming Phased Arrays
Peter Delos, Mike Jones and Mark Robertson
Measuring Quartz Crystal Oscillator G-Sensitivity
Ivanov Yuri, Nikonov Arkady and Knyazeva Elvira
March
Test & Measurement Industry Tackles 5G Over-the-Air Testing
Patrick Hindle
Optimizing the Perennial Doherty Power Amplifier
Gareth Lloyd, Rohde & Schwarz
Recent Advancements in mmWave Isolator Technology
David W. Porterfield, Jr.
High Speed Data Converters Enable Flexible RF Sampling
Architectures
Marc Stackler
Analytical Calculations for TRL Calibration
Kassem Hamze, Edouard De Ledinghen, Daniel Pasquet and Philippe Descamps
February
Gapwaves Platform Integrates 5G mmWave Arrays
Carlo Bencivenni, Thomas Emanuelsson and Magnus Gustafsson
Sub-6 GHz mMIMO Base Stations Meet 5G's Size and Weight
Challenges
Walter Honcharenko
Global 5G Rush But No Global 5G Handsets
Ben Thomas
Challenges for Effective and Realistic 5G OTA Testing
Miguel Á. García-Fernández and David A. Sánchez-Hernández
Using a COTS SDR as a 5G Development Platform
Bob Muro
January
Client Software-Defined Antennas Improve Link Margins, Reduce
Interference
Jeff Shamblin
Automotive Radar and Congested Spectrum: Potential Urban
Electronic Battlefield
Sefa Tanis
Nonlinear Modeling of a High Peak Power PIN Limiter
Hetvi Patel, Kevin Kellog, Hugo Morales, Larry Dunleavy, Rob Jones and Paul Head
Using RF Power Meters for PAPR Analysis and Reduction
Walt Strickler
June
Make Accurate Impedance Measurements Using a VNA
Brian Walker
Algorithms to Antenna: Closing the Loop in
Multifunction Phased-Array Modeling
Rick Gentile, Honglei Chen
GPSDO vs. Atomic Clock: What's Better for Your
Satellite Application?
Rob Rutkowski
Is 5G Four Times More Power Dense - or Even More?
Pietro Scalia
May
Doherty PAs Go Broadband Using Impedance
Adjustment Network
Qinghua Tang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Lamin Zhan, and Baoquan Hu
What are the 8 Most Important Oscillator Specs?
Jim Holbrook
Algorithms to Antenna: Generating Waveforms for
Wireless and Radar Systems
Rick Gentile, Honglei Chen
April
NASA Aims to Alter an Asteroid's Course
Stephen Mraz
Noise and Its Shaping in Ultra-Low-Noise
Synthesizer Design
Farron Dacus
Algorithms to Antenna: Modeling Micro-Doppler
Effects
Rick Gentile and Honglei Chen
March
Algorithms to Antenna: Where Should I Locate My Radar?
Rick Gentile, Jacob Halbrooks, Honglei Chen
Taking a Closer Look at MIMO Radio Systems
Brian Petted
What's the Difference Between the Four Stratum Levels?
Rob Rutkowski
What You Need to Know About Radio Telescopes
Lou Frenzel
The Critical Role OTA Testing Will Play in 5G
Lawrence Wilson
February
Overcome mmWave Automotive Radar Testing Challenges
Mark Elo
Calibration Techniques for Phased-Array Antennas
Rick Gentile, Honglei Chen, Marc Willerton
RFSoC Delivers FPGA Flexibility with High-Speed RF
Bill Wong
Noise Sources in Ultra-Low-Noise Synthesizer Design
Farron Dacus
January
A Brief Tutorial on Microstrip Antennas (Part 4)
Kenneth V. Puglia
Striking the Right Balance: RF Power Output and Efficiency
Jack Browne
Design Methods of Modern Ultra-Low-Noise Synthesizers
Farron Dacus
Algorithms to Antenna: Simulating Wideband Behavior in Wireless
Communications and Radar Systems
Rick Gentile and Honglei Chen
Employ Design-Flow Integration for Advanced Multichip RF Design
Dustin Hoekstra and Michael Yore
Grappling with Those Unwanted Signals
Jack Browne
How Can 3D-Printed Plastic Waveguides Enable V-Band Applications?
Paul Rousseau, Yannick Avelino, and Robert Lacoste
Smart Antennas Steer Mission-Critical IoT Applications
Jeff Shamblin
A Brief Tutorial on Microstrip Antennas (Part 3)
Kenneth V. Puglia
June
5G New Radio Solutions: Revolutionary
Applications Here Sooner Than You Think - Part Two
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
May
5G New Radio Solutions: Revolutionary
Applications Here Sooner Than You Think
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
The Reality of Millimeter Wavelength for 5G
Pasternack
Applications of Microwave Radiation in the
Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review
Dr. Huma Rasheed, Fawad Maqbool and Mick Syed
Testing a 24-28 GHz Power Amplifier Using the 5G
New Radio Test Standard
Tudor Williams, Darren Tipton, and Florian Ramian
April
MUOS - Overview and Update
Mike Cagney
March
MMIC Die Testing Made Easy with Ultra-Wideband 0 dB Attenuator
(Thru-Line) Die
Mini-Circuits
How RF Testing and Traceability Makes the Difference between
Generic and "Hi-Rel" (MIL-Spec) Coaxial Cable Assemblies
Pasternack
Leveraging the Precision of Ion Beam Milling Vs. Chemical
Etching of Thin Film Circuits
SemiGen
February
A Quick Guide to Lightning Arrestors
Fairview Microwave
Block Upconverter Design Considerations for Airborne
Applications
Mehdi Ardavan
Flattening Negative Gain Slope with MMIC Fixed Equalizers
Mini-Circuits
January
Methods to Increase Channel Capacity in RF Data Links
Stephen Barthelmes, Patrick Sherlock, Triad RF Systems, and Ken Andrew
RF Transceivers Enable Forced Spurious Decorrelation in Digital
Beamforming Phased Arrays
Peter Delos, Michael Jones, and Mark Robertson
An Overview of Flexible Waveguide Operation and Construction
Steven Pong
Millimeter-Wave Technology for Defense Applications
Mike Lee
July
Linear Does Not Mean No Distortion
Bob Witte
June
Does 5G Pose Health Risks? (Part 3)
Larry Desjardin
Simplify Test of Embedded Video Interfaces
Ayusman Mohanty
Eye Diagrams: The Tool for Serial Data Analysis
Arthur Pini
May
PCB Design for Low-EMI DC/DC Converters
Jens Hedrich
Decibels: Make Them absolute Levels
Bob Witte
Characterize DC-DC Converter EMI with Near-Field
Probes
Kenneth Wyatt
April
Does 5G Pose Health Risks? (Part 2)
Larry Desjardin
Decibels: Use with Caution
Bob Witte
Networks Prepare for 5G New Radio
Sheri DeTomasi
5G Mobile Network Test: The Secret Ingredient for
Proficient 5G Networks
Jessy Cavazos
Design PCBs for EMI, Part 3: Partitioning and
Routing
Kenneth Wyatt
Low-Cost design: When Best Practice is Too
Expensive
Todd Westerhoff
March
Does 5G Pose Health Risks? (part 1)
Larry Desjardin
The Pitfalls of Power-Rail Noise Measurements
David Maliniak
Design PCBs for EMI, Part 2: Basic Stack-Up
Kenneth Wyatt
Find a Signal's Bandwidth from Its Harmonics
Bob Witte
Accurate and Precise Automotive Extreme Temperature Testing
Ruediger Richter
What's effective Return Loss, Anyway? (Part 2)
Ransom Stephens
Design PCBs for EMI, Part 1: How Signals Move
Kenneth Wyatt
February
What's Effective Return Loss, Anyway? (Part 1)
Ransom Stephens
Step Excitation Stability Tests
John Dunn
Slew Rate and Rise Time: Not Quite the Same
Bob Witte
Control the Sample Rate of Digitized Signals
Arthur Pini
January
Link-Budget Calculations: Needed for 5G OTA Testing
Jeorge Hurtarte
What's That Signal's Bandwidth?
Bob Witte
Monte Carlo Gone Wrong
Charles Hymowitz
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