European Industry News

MACOM introduces industry’s first surface mount L-Band 90W GaN power module

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, today announced the newest entry in its portfolio of GaN in Plastic packaged power products. Optimized for L-Band commercial air traffic control, military radar, and long range perimeter monitoring applications at 1.2 to 1.4 GHz, MACOM’s new 2-stage, fully matched GaN in Plastic power module scales to peak pulse power levels of 100W in a 14 x 24 mm package size – delivering twice the power of comparably sized competing products.


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A1 Microwave to showcase world's smallest waveguide X-Band Tx and Rx filters at EuMW

A1 Microwave has released the world’s smallest waveguide X-Band Tx and Rx filters for military satcom applications. The filters have less than 0.3 dB insertion loss and have greater than 90 dB rejection in the complementary frequency bands. They are considerably shorter and lighter weight than equivalent filters on the market, which makes them ideal for portable solutions. These are stock items for immediate delivery.


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Tech-Inter opens a subsidiary in Germany

Tech-Inter has been a successful distributor of RF- and HF- components and systems in Europe for over 20 years. Thanks to an excellent supplier base, Tech-Inter has become a leading distributor in Europe, and it is able to offer its customers the latest technologies for a very wide range of products, such as amplifiers, filters, oscillators, wave guides, passives, etc.


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Modular Solutions Underpinned by Solid State Technologies Build Momentum behind GaN at DSEI 2013

From a radar and EW perspective, DSEI 2013 demonstrated the strides that solid state technologies, with GaN in particular, have made in terms of performance, reliability and cost to become established enabling technologies for next generation systems. By being able to combine these technologies in modular solutions, we may see faster development and deployment of systems, coupled with lower through life costs. What will be the future for military RF technologies?
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