KRYTAR, Inc., a leader in the design and production of ultra-broadband microwave components and test equipment has introduced a new 180-Degree Hybrid Coupler that delivers 3 dB of coupling over the f..

Tektronix, a leader in test and measurement solutions, has introduced TekHSI (Tektronix High Speed Interface), a remote procedure call (RPC)-based solution designed for fast data transfer from test i..

HaiLa Technologies Inc., a company dedicated to developing ultra-low-power radio technologies for IoT, has entered into a licence agreement with the University of Washington to develop and commercial..

Nanusens is a MEMS-within-CMOS solutions provider that was founded in 2014 by Dr. Josep Montanyà, and Dr. Marc Llamas and is headquartered in Paignton, England. It leverages the research and e..

KRYTAR, Inc. announced a new 180-degree hybrid coupler that delivers 3 dB of coupling over the frequency range of 0.4 to 7.125 GHz in a compact package. 

Keysight Technologies, Inc. enabled the first 3GPP Rel-16 sidelink radio interoperability test between the Ettifos SIRIUS 5G-V2X sidelink platform and the Autotalks SECTON3 5G-V2X chipset through the Keysight PathWave Signal Generation for NR-V2X and X-app for 5G NR V2X Modulation Analysis Measurement Application.

Tektronix, Inc shared the availability of a new remote procedure call (RPC)-based solution, TekHSI, for faster data transfer from testing instruments to a user’s PC.

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Each Society within IEEE covers a specific area of electrical engineering, defined in the Society’s field of interest (FOI) statement. For the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), the FOI statement reads, “The field of interest of the society shall be theory, techniques and applications of guided wave and wireless technologies spanning the electromagnetic spectrum from RF/microwave through millimeter-waves and terahertz, including the aspects of materials, components, devices, circuits, modules, and systems which involve the generation, modulation, demodulation, control, transmission, sensing and effects of electromagnetic signals” [1]. Note that the FOI statement is quite broad—and intentionally so because our field is also quite broad, covering passive and active components, circuits, and systems in a variety of applications, thus making the MTT-S the “MHz to THz community.” This broad technology space is represented and fostered by our 28 technical committees in core technologies and techniques as well as systems and applications [2]. This idea of breadth within our Society is this month’s theme for IEEE Microwave Magazine: “Breadth of MTT.” In this issue, we offer you four technical articles that are examples of the wide technological reach of our community, as well as the usual columns that you expect.

The IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) is a global community, with 40% of its members in North America (Regions R1–R7); 22% in Europe, Africa, and Middle East (R8); 2% in Latin America (R9); and 36% in Asia and Oceania (R10) (Figure 1).

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Frequent readers of this column may recall that I am fortunate to be the grandfather of the most adorable grandchild ever [1]. At this writing, he is almost 16 months old and still most adorable. He is also, unsurprisingly, the cleverest 16 month old ever.

Regular readers of the column will recall my long-standing fascination with the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Last year, I wrote about the American astrophysicist Frank Drake (1930–2022), who kickstarted SETI in 1960 with his Project Ozma [2] and whose eponymous Drake equation [3] has been used to estimate the number of observable civilizations in our galaxy. Recently, I browsed through a new crop of books devoted to SETI. They included Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars [1] by the Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb; Alien Earths [4] by Lisa Kaltenegger, the director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell; and The Little Book of Aliens [5] by the physicist Adam Frank of the University of Rochester. Even a cursory perusal of these books makes one thing very clear. Not only are scientists going beyond Drake’s original vision of searching for “radio waves sent forth by other intelligent civilizations” [2], but the current SETI discourse also employs many terms unfamiliar to the wider public. Here are a few of them to bring you up to speed.

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