A Few Great RF & Microwave Engineering Articles for October 2017

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. One article by Danny Rockett (whose last name I wouldn't mind having) introduces an approach to selecting the most suitable battery for a mobile device. I have posted many of my own commentaries on the importance of critical battery selection based mainly on my use of various technologies in my flying models. Kickstarter and other startup funding websites are full of gizmos people have invented that are battery-powered, so it is not just the "big boys" who need to be concerned. Back in the early days of Bluetooth, I jokingly said that I should invest in battery company stocks because if the scheme took off, I would be rich in a couple decades due to all the wireless devices. Well, I didn't - but it did - and now I'm still not - heavy sigh.

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

• Antenna Arrays for 5G Improve SNR and Capacity, by Honglei Chen and Rick Gentile
• 11 Myths About Wireless Power, by Hatem Zeine
• Using Component Models to Achieve First Pass Success - A Transmitter Case Study: Part 1, Harmonic Filter Design, by Ted Longshore and Larry Dunleavy

• Using High Accuracy Models to Achieve First Pass Design Success - A Transmitter Case Study: Part 2, Power Amplifier Design, by Ted Longshore and Larry Dunleavy

• RF Devices: Reliability is Critical, by Martin Rowe
• Opting for Single-Layer or Multilayer Capacitors, by Jack Browne
• A Fundamental Approach to Mobile-Device Battery Selection, by Danny Rockett
• Meet the Challenge of Designing Electrically Small Antennas, by Sameer Kumar Sharma and Deepak Singh Nagarkoti
• An Introduction to Test Cables, by Fairview Microwave
• Five Technologies for Building 5G, by Kalyan Sundhar

Posted October 12, 2017