Akoustis® Technologies Ships First BAW Filter Prototypes Operating above 3.5GHz
August 16 2017 - 7:15AM
Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or the
“Company”), a manufacturer of patented single-crystal BulkONE® bulk
acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other
wireless applications, announced today its first shipment of
premium high-band BAW filter prototypes for a radar application to
address challenging electrical and size requirements dictated by
the military. These bandpass filters operate with a passband
between 3.5GHz and 3.9GHz and were manufactured using its patented
single-crystal BulkONE® technology in the Company’s NY wafer
fabrication facility.
These high-band BAW filter prototypes achieve low insertion loss
over the 100MHz passband with high out-of-band rejection greater
than 40dB. The filters were assembled in a custom, small
form-factor package that is 2.5mm x 2mm x 0.8mm – an 80% to 90%
reduction in size when compared to conventional cavity or
integrated passive devices (IPD) filters.
The filter prototypes were shipped to a well-established OEM
specializing in non-mobile communication systems, with annual
revenues of more than $1 Billion. Akoustis has invoiced this
customer from an open purchase order it received and announced in
December 2016. Akoustis was responsible for the design,
fabrication, characterization and delivery of first articles, which
could lead to a production ramp in 2018.
Jeff Shealy, CEO of Akoustis, commented “These new BAW filters,
which shipped to our second customer, allow system miniaturization
and cost reduction by reducing the radar element footprint size.”
Mr. Shealy continued “The passband frequency above 3.5GHz is
also synergistic with our ongoing filter development for
high-growth markets, including 5G mobile, 5GHz WiFi router and CBRS
- where BAW filters are expected to be unrivaled in performance and
size.”
Akoustis is pioneering next-generation material science to
address the market requirements for improved RF filters - targeting
higher bandwidth, higher operating frequencies and higher output
power compared to incumbent polycrystalline BAW technology deployed
today. Superior performance is driven by the significant advances
of high-purity, single-crystal piezoelectric materials and the
resonator-filter process technology. The advanced material
properties drive electro-mechanical coupling, which translates to
wide filter bandwidth. High-band RF filters are achieved by
leveraging the Company’s high-sound velocity, single-crystal
piezoelectric materials. These single-crystal piezoelectric
materials offer high-thermal conductivity along the path of heat
flow, enabling high-power handling capability of the RF filter.
About Akoustis Technologies, Inc.
Akoustis® (http://www.akoustis.com) is a high-tech RF filter
solutions company that designs and manufactures its unique,
patented BulkONE® technology to produce single-crystal bulk
acoustic wave (BAW) RF filters for mobile and other wireless
markets, which facilitate signal acquisition and accelerate band
performance between the antenna and digital back end. Its
BulkONE® technology will service the fast growing multi-billion
dollar market of device OEMs, network providers, and consumers to
diminish Front End phone heat, battery drain and signal loss -- all
considered to be directly related to current RF polycrystalline
filter technologies' limitations. The Company owns and
operates a 120,000 sq. ft. ISO-9001 certified commercial
wafer-manufacturing facility located in Canandaigua, NY, which
includes a class 100 / class 1000 cleanroom facility - tooled for
150-mm diameter - for the design, development, fabrication and
packaging of RF filters, MEMS and semiconductor devices. Akoustis
is headquartered in the Piedmont technology corridor near Charlotte
North Carolina.
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