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Agile's Ferroelectric Phase Shifters Expand Smart-Antenna Horizons Electronic Products 28th Annual Product of the Year Awards – 2003   From the thousands of products introduced in 2003, the editors of Electronic Products have chosen the most outstanding. The selections are based on significant advances in technology or its application, a decided innovation in design, or a substantial gain in price-performance. As usual, picking winners was made difficult by the many impressive products announced during the year. Here is a product by Agile Materials & Technologies chosen as a 2003 award.   Ferroelectric Phase Shifters Expand Smart-Antenna Horizons   Long used in expensive military radar and satellite applications, electronically scanned phased-array-antennas offer performance that could benefit a variety of other applications, such as commercial wireless communications or collision-avoidance radar in automobiles. However, widespread deployment of these smart antennas has been impeded by their traditionally high cost – mainly due to the use of expensive GaAs- and MEMS-based phase shifters, which can account for almost half the total cost of such designs.   Using an alternative approach consisting of a proprietary thin-film ferro-electric technology …   For more information, click here.   4/14/2004