Technologies and Capabilities
Key high power vacuum device technology includes: vacuum expertise such as brazing, Radio Frequency (RF) induced and resistance welding; etching and plating; manual and automated microwave high power Continuous Wave (CW) and pulsed testing; and facilities for inspection, including CNC contactless equipment and SEM electronic microscope.
Key microelectronic technology includes: fully automated epoxy (and other adhesive) dispensing; automatic eutectic attach; plasma etching, die placement and wire bonding; advanced microwave module assembling; automatic testing, aging and environmental stress screening.
These technologies are supported by a manufacture engineering team. The Palermo site's expertise covers configuration management and the provision of build-to-print manufacturing and test services.
Design Centre
The engineering department incorporates a design centre with a broad range of software CAD/CAE for the design of RF & microwave tubes, components and systems.
High Power Microwave Vacuum Devices
World-class design expertise in Magnetrons, Klystron, Coupled Cavity and Helix Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT).
- Magnetron and Klystron (high power oscillators) up to 2MW peak in L band and 125kW peak at Ku band
- Coupled Cavity Traveling Wave Tube (TWT - high power amplifier) up to 140kW in S band and 14kW in Ku band
- Helix Traveling Wave Tube (TWT - high power amplifier) up to 10kW in S band and 2kW in Ku band.
Microelectronics
- State-of-the-art design expertise in microwave solid-state hybrids: multi-assemblies and sub-systems for receivers and exciters
- State-of-the-art facilities for hybrids manufacturing, including fully automated manufacturing line and RF test capabilities up to 40GHz.
