A Few Great RF & Microwave Engineering Articles for July 2017

A lot of engineers and technicians who visit RF Cafe design and/or service battery-operated equipment like radios, wearable devices, games and toys, tools, etc. With battery technology advancing quickly, it is important to keep abreast of cell chemistry, packaging, and charge / discharge characteristics. An article by Bob Zollo introduces some of the concepts. Another article introduces yet another filter design approach. After nearly four decades in electronics, I am constantly amazed that there are areas of filter design that have not yet been covered. Items move onto and off of all homepages quickly, so even if you visit Microwave & RF, Microwave Journal, Microwave Product Digest, High Frequency Electronics, et al, regularly, you might have missed something in the list below.

Here is a complete list of all featured RF & microwave articles in 2017.

• Measuring Battery Cell Capacity, Bob Zollo
• Accurate RF/Microwave Testing at Minimum Cost, Orwill Hawkins
• Network Synthesis and Power Amplifiers: So Much More than Impedance Matching, by Gayle Collins
• Improve RFID by Killing Noise, by Rex Niven
• Dual-Band Bandpass Filter with Multiple Controllable Transmission Zeroes and Wide Stopband, by Daotong Li, Yonghong Zhang, Jing Ai, Kaijun Song and Y. Fan
• Simulate Installed Antenna and RF Co-Site Issues with EM Tools, by Manny Raju, Shawn Carpenter, Matthew Commens
• Effective Ways to Cut PCB Assembly Cost Without Sacrificing Quality, by Dora Yang
• Clocking High-Throughput Satellites, by Rajan Bedi
• Redefining High-End RF and Microwave Signal Generation, by Rohde & Schwarz
• Accurately Measure Ceramic Capacitors by Extending VNA Range, Steve Sandler

Posted July 14, 2017