by jacquelineh96 | Mar 24, 2026 | Engineering Resources, Industry Insights, Limiters
The PIN Diode and the Anti-Parallel Configuration The PIN diode itself was invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa in 19501, just 18 days before R. N. Hall of General Electric. Hall would go on to propose the PIN diode as a rectifier in 19522, and a decade later the...
by Rinchen Athup | Mar 3, 2026 | Power Sensors
As utilization of wireless communications has accelerated over the past few years, the push to make efficient use of the limited amount of spectrum available has led to the development of more complex modulation schemes. Waveforms have continued to evolve from...
by jacquelineh96 | Feb 16, 2026 | Filters
Astonishingly, 200 years ago in France in 1826, Felix Savary observed the oscillatory nature of Leyden jar discharges. This oscillatory behavior is an essential requirement for resonance.1 The theory of resonance would take another 50 years to mature. In 1887,...
by jacquelineh96 | Dec 15, 2025 | Bias Tees, Engineering Resources, Space
Higher SATCOM Data Throughput Requires Cleaner References and LOs Over the last decade, the satellite communications (SATCOM) industry has been evolving to support both wider channel bandwidths (BWs) and higher order modulations such as higher order quadrature...
by minicircuitsadmin | Dec 2, 2025 | Amplifiers, Engineering Resources, Measurement Methods & Techniques, Videos
Mini-Circuits R&D Fellow, Joe Merenda recently presented a tutorial on Amplifier Additive Phase Noise at the 2025 Low-Level Radio Frequency Workshop at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA. In this fourth episode of our Additive...
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