Resource Library

Aircraft design and construction demands careful selection of the right materials to meet performance and safety requirements while optimizing the combination of material characteristics and properties.

SMA, 3.5 mm and 2.92 mm connectors make reliable, RF components and instrumentation possible. These seemingly mundane devices are the result of evolutionary and revolutionary design, covering a 40-year period and involving several corporations. In their present state, they represent highly evolved, well-defined interface systems.

From MPDigest.com, August 2014.

By Robert John, Product Manager, W. L. Gore & Associates

Reprinted with permission of MICROWAVE JOURNAL® from the March 2010 Microwave Journal Cables and Connectors Supplement

This Product Feature article in the October 2013 edition of Microwave Journal describes Gore's Leaky Feeder Antennas for airborne Wi-Fi.

This article, prepared by Gore Associates Robert John and Jerome Lokken, appeared in the Winter 2015 edition of Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine

This article from the March 2015 edition of Microwave Journal explains why cables like Gore's Leaky Feeder Antennas make fine broadband antennas.

Application article by Jörgen Andersson in Signalen magazine, October 2006, about a Gore custom-made FireWire cable.

This article, featured in the July 23, 2009 issue of Machine Design, discusses the problem of particulates for moving cable systems and provides guidance on designing cable systems for a cleanroom environment.

This article, featured in the February 19, 2009 issue of Machine Design, explains the value expanded PTFE brings to Gore products, especially cable.  The author provides a deep look inside PTFE , the materials characteristics and explains how this material gives cables long flex-life, extra strength, better signal transmission, and clean-room performance.