Free RF and Microwave Network Analysis CD

This Agilent CD-ROM contains a portable library of RF and microwave technical papers, product video demos and links to complimentary eSeminars to help solve your component test needs. Learn about amplifier, CATV, multiport, mixers, pulsed RF and balanced measurements.

To order, visit
http://wireless.agilent.com/-networkanalyzers/enapnasignup.php.

2nd Edition of Electromagnetic Primer

Artech House has published Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuit, and Antenna Design for Communications Engineering, Second Edition by Peter Russer of Technische Universität München. The second edition features a brand new chapter on filters, an expanded treatment of antennas, and new sections of cylindrical waves and waves in layered media, multiconductor transmission lines, radio waveguides, and aperture coupling. The book now includes problem sets that help reinforce the understanding of key concepts in each chapter.

The second edition presents examples in both exterior differential form calculus and conventional vector notation. Including concise explanations of all required mathematical concepts needed to fully comprehend the material, the book is a complete resource for mastering electromagnetics in current, emerging and future broadband communication systems, as well as high-speed analogue and digital electronic circuits and systems. From electromagnetic wave propagation, electromagnetic interference, and transmission lines and waveguides, to linear multiports, microwave circuits and antennas, the book offers expert guidance in a wide range of key areas.

With more than 300 illustrations and 900 equations, there is no other book currently available that explains RF fields in such an easy-to-understand manner.

To order, visit www.artechhouse.com.

RFID Forecasts 2006 to 2016

IDTechEx has extensively researched the RFID industry to bring you new forecasts for the years ahead. Cumulative sales of RFID tags for 60 years until the beginning of 2006 total 2.4 billion, with 600 million tags being sold in 2005 alone. In 2006, IDTechEx expects 1.3 billion tags to be sold. Of that about 500 million RFID will be used for pallet and case level tagging but the majority will be used for a range of diverse markets from baggage and passports to contactless payment cards and drugs.

In the short term large “closed loop” markets requiring high value RFID will remain very profitable and companies will seek to position themselves as the leader in hardware and integration in different vertical market segments. Challenges with tag yield versus cost, frequency acceptance, specification creep and required performance levels are some of the key issues that are being resolved to grow the RFID market exponentially over coming years to be almost ten times the size in 2016 that it will be in 2006. In 2016, IDTechEx sees the value of the total market, including systems and services, to rocket to $26.23Bn from $2.71Bn in 2006 in value. The number of tags delivered in 2016 will be over 450 times the number delivered in 2006.

This includes many new markets that are being created, such as the market for Real Time Location Systems using active RFID. Indeed, the market for active RFID will itself be more than $6Bn in 2016.

Growth in passive RFID will be driven by the tagging of high volume items – notably consumer goods, drugs and postal packages – at the request of retailers, military forces and postal authorities and for legal reasons. In these cases, the primary benefits sought will be broader and include cost, increased sales, improved safety, reduced crime and improved customer service.

These findings are highlights from a new detailed 190- page report from IDTechEx, “RFID Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2006-2016.”

For more information, visit www.idtechex.com.

Laird Technologies Form-in-Place Gasket Brochure

Laird Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials, thermal interface products and wireless antenna solutions has just released their new Form-in-Place Gasketing brochure. This new piece details the company’s considerable form-in-place capabilities that are particularly suited for OEMs manufacturing wireless handsets, PDAs, PC cards, telecom base stations, satellite radios, navigation systems and many other compartmentalized cast, machined or plastic enclosures and packaged electronic assemblies.

The eight-page brochure details for engineers and buyers the company’s form-in-place capabilities including form-in-place gasket introduction, design considerations, material formulation and compounding, technical data, shielding effectiveness, features and benefits, capacity, volume material supply and equipment sales.

This useful brochure also contains a materials specification chart that engineers and designers can use to determine form-in-place compounds, electrical and physical properties and curing requirements.

For a free copy of the brochure, call Laird Technologies at 1+(800) 843-4556, e-mail: sales@lairdtech.com.

Ferrite Products Catalog

FerriShield’s 2006 catalog introduces 175 new products including innovations for PCB shields, RFID shielding, RF absorber materials and cable ferrite suppressors. Frequency-tuned products address broadband, low, high and microwave frequencies. An expanded section of testing aids and EMC emissions probes are useful problem solvers for any lab.

For more information, contact FerriShield, Inc., 426 Mulberry St., Ste. 300, Scranton, PA 18503, phone: (570) 961-5617, fax: (570) 969-6274, www.ferrishield.com.