Akoustis to Showcase Industry Leading 5.2 GHz WiFi Co-Existence BAW RF Filters at IMS 2018
Charlotte, N.C., June 07, 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, will showcase its groundbreaking AKF-1252 5.2 GHz co-existence BAW RF filter at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 11th-13th.
The conference is being held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and is the world’s largest microwave and RF industry exhibition. Akoustis will host a meeting room for customers with live demonstrations of the Company’s BAW filter technology, including its 5.2 GHz co-existence BAW RF filter for WiFi applications. The AKF-1252 is the industry’s first 5.2 GHz BAW RF filter that delivers world-class insertion loss and power handling in a form factor 23 times smaller than existing dielectric resonator technologies.
Customers and industry partners can request a meeting with Akoustis VP of Business Development, Dave Aichele, at sales@akoustis.com.
The AKF-1252 Features:
- High frequency operation at 5.2 GHz
- Wide bandwidth covering both U-NII-1 and U-NII-2A
- Low insertion loss (~2dB) in both U-NII-1 and U-NII-2A passband
- High power rating with +32dBm maximum
- High rejection with >50dB enabling coexistence with adjacent U-NII-2C + U-NII-3 bands
- Single-ended Ant, Tx/Rx ports
- Ultra-small form factor packaged module at 2mm x 2.5mm x 0.9mm
- Operating temperature ranges from -40C to +85C
Jeff Shealy, Founder & CEO of Akoustis, said, “We are excited to showcase our first commercial product at IMS 2018. Operating at 5.2 GHz, our co-existence filters demonstrate the capability of our patented single-crystal BAW technology at frequencies well above existing commercially available products. It further demonstrates the ability of our core technology to reach new bands in the sub-6GHz spectrum to address critical RF filter requirements for existing and next generation communications applications, including the emerging 5G mobile network.”
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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Contact: COMPANY: Tom Sepenzis Akoustis Technologies, Inc. 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 June 7, 2018