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PowerDevices June 2009 Among the changing landscape of RF/microwave semiconductor developments, devices with material properties that can sustain high electric breakdown are of particular interest. MWJ spoke to a number of leading vendors in GaN, LDMOS and other high voltage RF technologies. The New Power Brokers>

MWJ: What are the most significant benefits of GaN/LDMOS/HVFET? How does this compare to other high power devices?   RFMD: GaN based amplifiers provide the following significant benefits 1)       Higher efficiency for pulsed, CW saturated and linear applications which improve thermal requirements and energy usage.   GaN is...

UltraSource Inc. , a supplier of custom thin film circuits and ceramic interconnect devices, has announced the release of the new UltraVia™. This addition to the company's UltraTechnologies product line, which consists of the UltraCapacitor™, the UltraBridge™, and the UltraInductor™, is the next generation of integrated thin film via...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance semiconductor components, announced the company has formed a gallium nitride (GaN) Foundry Services business unit to supply high reliability, high performance and price-competitive GaN semiconductor technology into multiple RF power markets. The RFMD GaN...

StratEdge , a leader in the design and production of semiconductor packages for microwave, millimeter-wave and high speed digital devices, announces the release of its new high-frequency SMX Series surface-mount package. The new DC to 30 GHz package is designed for use in test and measurement, VSAT, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint,...

HVVi Semiconductors Inc. , a developer of silicon RF power transistors, announces the addition of the HVV1011-500 to its growing line-up of L-band devices. These devices are fabricated using the industry’s first High Voltage Vertical Field Effect Transistor (HVVFET™) architecture. HVV1011-500 is a 500 W (P1dB) single-ended device, and...

The International Microwave Symposium (IMS) will introduce its first-ever Presentations Online at IMS2009. The program will provide online access to recordings of most technical presentations, workshops and short courses held during IMS. IMS2009, the annual conference and exhibition of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), is the...

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced five laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) field effect transistors (FET) for commercial aerospace applications. The expanded RF portfolio includes L-band (965 to 1215 MHz) devices and the first LDMOS FETs for aerospace applications at S-band (3.1 to 3.5 GHz). Freescale will showcase these devices...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced its acquisition of Axiom Microdevices , a volume supplier of CMOS-based power amplifiers for mobile phones. “The acquisition of Axiom complements our existing GaAs capabilities, bolsters our...