ATC designs, develops, manufactures and markets Multilayer Capacitors, Single Layer Capacitors, Resistive Products, Inductors and Custom Thin Film Products for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications. Our products are primarily focused on the wireless communications infrastructure, fiber optic, medical electronics, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, defense, aerospace, and satellite communications markets.
By building key components into design kits and application platforms, suppliers give circuit and system designers head starts in getting the most value and performance for their...
Understanding the impact of selecting different materials and manufacturing processes can separate standard high-power resistive components from those designed and tested for ...
Terminations and attenuators can handle high power levels at microwave frequencies, and advanced materials are enabling them to do so in smaller packages.
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 ...
Designers working with the Advanced Design System (ADS) suite of software simulation tools from Agilent Technologies now can have a new set of device models at their fingertips...
Parts obsolescence is a real issue in high-reliability electronics like aerospace and defense systems. According to an April 2008 article in IEEE Spectrum, Uncle Sam spends $10...
Just as electrical energy must overcome resistance in a circuit, the flow of heat through a design relies on overcoming thermal obstacles before it can be safely dissipated.
The 550L Ultra-Broadband Capacitor from American Technical Ceramics (ATC) lives up to its name with a bandwidth of 16 kHz to past 40 GHz. Supplied in an EIA 0402 case size, it...
HIGHLIGHTS Key Benefits Software developers, component suppliers, and EDA vendors are teaming to improve model accuracy, expand libraries, and enhance simulation tools. With updated...
This simple approach to a gain equalizer can be implemented in lumped-element or distributed form to level out the amplitude response of broadband commercial amplifiers.
Oct. 11, 2007
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At lease two reactive elements are needed to match a lossless network to an arbitrary load. Yet two elements alone will not provide simultaneous control over the bandwidth and...
American Technical Ceramics Corp. (ATC), a manufacturer of electronic components, including capacitors and thin-film circuits for a range of commercial and military applications...
Modeling specialist Modelithics has announced their latest CLR Library release, with an increase of 30 percent in the total number of the company's Global Models. The CLR Library...
Microwave/RF module technology has advanced to traditionally planar formats to three-dimensional, multilayer assemblies with subsystem functionality in component packages.
These building-block circuit elements have improved in stability and versatility over time, with a wide range of package styles available from a long list of suppliers.
A new compact-disk (CD) catalog from leading capacitor supplier American Technical Ceramics contains detailed information on the company's single-layer and multilayer capacitors...
