Paving the way for cellular mobile telephones as tiny as you like, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp claims to have developed new technology enabling it to produce the world’s smallest radio receiver. The receiver would use new uniplanar circuit configuration technology for monolithic microwave integrated circuits. The company also claims to have succeeded in mounting […]
Paving the way for cellular mobile telephones as tiny as you like, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp claims to have developed new technology enabling it to produce the world’s smallest radio receiver. The receiver would use new uniplanar circuit configuration technology for monolithic microwave integrated circuits. The company also claims to have succeeded in mounting the six types of circuit needed to build a receiver into a package 0.6 by 0.4 by 0.7, about one fifieth the size of the present best. Operating at 26GHz, it will be pitched at satellite transponders and broadcast receivers as well as tiny cellular phones. NTT gave no indication of when the new receiver might be put into production.
