Akoustis Founder and CEO Jeff Shealy to Discuss 5G Mobile on Bloomberg TV with Emily Chang Today at 5:00 pm EDT
Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or the “Company”), a manufacturer of patented single-crystal bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications, announced today Founder & CEO Jeff Shealy is scheduled to be a guest on “Bloomberg Technology” hosted by Emily Chang. The show airs at 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm EDT, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm PDT.
After four years of development, the Company is transitioning into commercialization. In March, Akoustis introduced the industry’s first commercial 5.2 GHz BAW RF filter for tri-band WiFi router applications, followed in April by its second commercial product, a 3.8 GHz BAW RF filter, a high frequency solution targeting radar applications. The 3.8 GHz filter aligns with emerging 5G frequency spectrum and resulted in a purchase order in mid-July along with increased interest in adjacent frequencies. In early July, Akoustis announced the completion of the qualification for its patented single-crystal BAW process and technology. Akoustis has announced other products and contracts in the mobile infrastructure market and the Citizen’s Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) bands, and expects to be one of the few BAW RF filter suppliers to the emerging 5G mobile market as it develops.
About Akoustis Technologies, Inc.
Akoustis® (http://www.akoustis.com) is a high-tech BAW RF filter solutions company that is pioneering next-generation materials 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. The Company utilizes its proprietary XBAW single-crystal BAW manufacturing process to produce bulk acoustic wave RF filters for mobile and other wireless markets, which facilitate signal acquisition and accelerate band performance between the antenna and digital back end. Superior performance is driven by the significant advances of high-purity, single crystal piezoelectric materials and the resonator-filter process technology which drives electro-mechanical coupling and translates to wide filter bandwidth.
The Company plans to 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 wafers - for the design, development, fabrication and packaging of RF filters, MEMS and other semiconductor devices. Akoustis Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in the Piedmont technology corridor near Charlotte, North Carolina.
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COMPANY: Tom Sepenzis Akoustis Technologies Director of Investor Relations 704-890-2925 tsepenzis@akoustis.com The Del Mar Consulting Group, Inc. Robert B. Prag, President 858-794-9500 bprag@delmarconsulting.com
Released August 17, 2018