Abstract
Electronic warfare (EW) uses focused electromagnetic (EM) energy, also known as directed energy (DE), such as radio waves, infrared (IR), radio detection and ranging (radar) or light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (laser) light, to communicate with allied forces or to obscure or disable an adversary’s electronic equipment.
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Meaconing is the electronic interception and re-broadcast of navigation signals and is derived from the word beacon.
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More recently, since the introduction of service drones such as the Amazon® Prime Air delivery drone, the word ‘drone’ has shed some of its seemingly negative connotation with military activity.
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The Johnson’s figure of merit is the product of a semiconductor’s charge carrier saturation velocity and the electrical breakdown field.
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The Nyquist frequency in discrete-time systems is half of the sampling rate (or twice the operating frequency) in signal processing.
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Lambrechts, W., Sinha, S. (2017). SiGe Based Re-engineering of Electronic Warfare Subsystems. In: SiGe-based Re-engineering of Electronic Warfare Subsystems. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47403-8_1
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