Solid State Microwave Amplifiers

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Empower’s Microwave Amplifiers are available in module form, air cooled rack mount, and liquid cooled rack configurations.

Traditional microwave amplifiers are defined to operate in the frequency range of 3GHz to 30GHz. Below 6GHz the heavy reliance on TWT's and magnetrons has declined sharply over the past decades and that trend is accelerating. In the lower range of microwave frequencies Gallium Nitride has become the dominant semiconductor technology for high power applications. The dominant attributes are its power density capabilities arising from the silicon carbide substrates superior thermal properties along with high breakdown voltages. These advantages over other solid state technologies are currently true in the 1GHz to 6GHz range and in the 9GHz to 10GHz X band range. Empower RF has invested solely in solid state amplifier for the advancement high power amplifier technology and is pushing solid state into higher and higher frequencies as device power and bandwidth combinations grows.

• These are class AB solid state GaN on SiC designs above 1GHz.
• We cover L, S, C and X bands in broadband and narrow band versions, CW and pulse.
• All of Empowers continuous wave Next Gen system amplifiers can be operated in pulse mode with a pulse modulated input signal.
• A gate input is included as well if you require output stage shut off between pulses.
• Several dedicated pulse HPA’s are available with 20% duty cycle and long pulse widths.

Patented Hardware

US Patent 9,007,125 B2 US Patent 9,093,731 B2 US Patent 8,736,365 B2

Pending Patents US Patent 62/847,751 US Patent 62/856,732 US Patent 20/32,815

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Denotes best choices in this performance range.