Founded in 1999, Empower RF Systems is a global leader in power amplifier solutions that are critical to defense, commercial, and industrial market applications.
Founded in 1999, Empower RF Systems is a global leader in power amplifier solutions that are critical to defense, commercial, and industrial market applications. With our origins in the design of broadband and band-specific solid state power amplifiers, Empower continues to advance the science of RF power amplification to produce rugged, power efficient, and cost-effective solutions. It is our priority to design and deliver high quality, innovative products which address customer systems and business requirements.Operating globally and continuing to expand our technology resources, Empower RF has been awarded patents on amplifier design techniques and assembly methods. Our customer base includes market leading OEMs, government agencies, and academic institutions with an array of demanding performance requirements.
Aerospace and defense systems rely heavily on RF/microwave power amplifiers to send often complex-modulated signals to their destinations. Learn more about key specifications ...
Sometimes you want a whole meal, and sometimes just an appetizer. IMS 2021 aspires to provide the latter with short and snappy MicroApps tech presentations.
Interest in components, circuit materials, and test solutions for millimeter-wave frequencies looms large as the RF/microwave industry readies for two versions of the annual IEEE...
Delivering a minimum of 8 kW of peak pulsed power, Empower RF Systems' Model 2217 provides 20% duty-cycle operation powered by GaN on SiC output transistors.
Ranging from HF to X-band, a new scalable RF-amplification architecture dispenses with tubes and is liquid cooled to deliver kilowatts of CW and pulse energy.
Exhibits are closed at IMS 2021, but we continue our coverage of exciting new products that were launched on the exhibition's bustling show floor earlier this week.
During a time when defense electronics technology is strong, the industry readies itself for the global adoption of 5G and electronically steered vehicles.
For a function that once required a tube amplifier, semiconductor amplifiers are raising pulsed power levels for radars and other applications at higher frequencies.
Solid-state technology, mainly in the form of gallium-nitride transistors, is opening the door to more powerful, “tube-like” microwave power amplifiers.
The RF/microwave industry was generally optimistic at the exhibition in anticipation of real opportunities for mmWave products in automotive and 5G markets.
At Empower RF Systems’ booth, check out power amplifiers being operated via wireless remote control, with an iPad as the controller for operating modes and amplifier diagnostics...
Visitors to the RF/microwave industry’s largest conference and exhibition can sample some of the hardware, software, and test-equipment products that are turning 5G and IoT into...
With today’s focus on electronic-warfare (EW) capability, the RF/microwave industry is working on satisfying EW requirements in power amplifiers (PAs), low-noise amplifiers (LNAs...
The exhibition area is open for slightly less than three days, and visitors can easily spend all of their time just scouring the sections of the show floor and the companies devoted...
By providing a global gathering for all microwave technologists, the IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS) again promises to be the gem of Microwave Week.
Amplifier systems employ tubes, transistors, and sometimes a mix of the two device technologies to achieve kilowatt power levels at microwave frequencies.
Ready-to-use amplifier systems have gained acceptance for a growing number of applications, ranging from radar platforms to satellite-communications (satcom) networks.
Advanced semiconductor materials are vital to the technology growth of the armed forces, which hope to use both gallium nitride and graphene devices in future systems.
Held in Canada for only the second time in its history, the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) brought a large influx of microwave engineers to Montreal, Quebec...
IMS 2012, Day 3: A Sea of Semiconductor Vendors Plumbing as a metaphor for microwaves Lou Frenzel summarizes some of what he saw and heard from the many semiconductor vendors ...
Microwave Weeks IMS conference and associated events comprise an event unlike any other in the electronics industry, giving members of the indu try a chance to catch up with products...
DEFENSE ELECTRONICS REQUIRES special components and techniques that can survive some of the harshest environmental conditions. Each year, thousands of engineers working in this...
High-power RF and microwave signal levels are produced by both vacuum tubes and transistors in military systems, with demands for ever-increasing efficiency and smaller size.
Amplifiers for RF and microwave use are available in a range of packaged and unpackaged varieties to suit low-noise and power requirements through millimeter-wave frequencies....
Microwave/RF module technology has advanced to traditionally planar formats to three-dimensional, multilayer assemblies with subsystem functionality in component packages.
