A Few Great RF & Microwave Engineering Articles for January 2017

RF & Microwave Magazine Article Archive 2017 - RF Cafe This latest collection of articles from our industry's magazine publishers with a mix of topics including one of my favorite: grounding. 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.

Understanding an Instrument Amplifier's Linear Operating Range, by Lou Frenzel
Near-Field Scanning: Useful or Misleading?, by Bruce Archambeault
Free Software Shows Radar Coverage, by Jack Browne
Receiver ICs Blend Mixers, Synthesizers, and IF Amps, by Marc Goldfarb, Ben Walker, Russell Martin, Tom Bosia, Ed Balboni, Dragoslav Culum
Properly Ground Your Circuits, by Lee Ritchey and Kella Knack
What RF Engineers Need to Know about the Smart Home, by Cees Links
How Bending Affects a Flexible UWB Antenna, by Sherif R. Zahran, Mahmoud A. Abdalla, A. Gaafar
Move ICs from Defects Per Million to Defects Per Billion, by David Park

Posted January 12, 2017

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