Thin dielectric material technology is used in a wide range of microwave amplifiers for the defence and civil markets

Specialist high technology UK company Labtech is using its thin dielectric material (TDM) technology to launch a new low-cost standard amplifier range. The company is harnessing the skills of its two manufacturing centres of excellence - Labtech Microwave in Milton Keynes and Labtech Circuits in Presteigne - to offer a wide range of microwave amplifiers for the defence and civil markets.

Labtech has many years’ experience of producing high quality cascadable broadband and multi-octave band amplifiers with gain levels up to 80dB and output powers of +30dBm.

Labtech’s product range covers low-noise octave band amplifiers up to 40GHz, multi-octave band amplifiers up to 40GHz, high-gain multi-octave limiting amplifiers and medium-power amplifiers to 1W.

Labtech Microwave has also developed a new range of low noise amplifiers (2 to 18.0GHz) using the TDM technology to compliment the existing alumina technology and is committed to providing a fast response to customer requirements to meet important deadlines.

By being able to design and produce amplifiers, the company’s design team can offer a form-fit and function capability for products no longer available in today’s marketplace.

All amplifier modules are assembled in purpose-built clean rooms which house thin film processing, automatic chip and wire assembly, alignment, test and laser welding for hermetic sealing.

Amplifiers are offered in a range of standard or customer package outlines.

All manufacture and testing is undertaken in a class 10,000 clean room with fully automated chip placement and wire bonding.

Labtech can fully test components/subsystems and integrated assemblies to MIL-STD requirements demanded by various customers around the world.