Products of the Week: April 20, 2026

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

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April 20, 2026

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At the heart of our mission here at Microwaves & RF is to regularly feature collections of some of the most interesting new product announcements of the recent past. It's our hope that products such as these will inspire you to create your own new offerings.

Here are the products we featured this week:

Dracula Technologies just announced LAYER V2.0 with a 30% indoor-light performance boost.

Energy-Harvesting Solution Enables Battery-Free IoT

Dracula Tech's next-gen light energy-harvesting OPV platform delivers a 30% performance increase for battery-free IoT.

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Vector Photonics and Fraunhofer UK prove real-world practicality of PCSEL technology, enabling secure, long-distance, fast communications.

PCSEL-Based Platform Performs Free-Space Optical Comms

Vector Photonics and Fraunhofer UK demonstrated free-space optical transmission using a PCSEL, enabling secure, long-distance, fast communications.

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Advanced Cooling and Power Solutions for High-Density AI Data Centers

Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the physical reality of the data center. Training clusters and high-performance inference systems pack a significant number of graphics...

Mouser Electronics, Inc.

FG23L Wireless SoC Offers High Performance for Sub-GHz IoT

Application-Optimized Wireless SoC Hits the Sweet Spot for Sub-GHz IoT

Silicon Labs’ new FG23L is an IoT/IIoT connectivity device that balances performance and cost to target resource-constrained applications.

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Network Software Eases Cloud Integration, Wireless Management

NeoCortec's NeoGW software and centralized Network Management web application ushers in seamless cloud integration and wireless mesh-network management.

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More New Products

Test Platform Offers Expanded Multichannel Synchronization

Red Pitaya's expanded multichannel synchronization and high-speed streaming let engineers build scalable, synchronized multiboard test systems with faster data throughput.

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A range of congatec modules supports computationally powerful, energy-efficient embedded AI applications.

Computer-on-Module Family Accelerates Edge AI Deployment

New COMs from congatec fast-track Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors for embedded AI without discrete accelerator cards.

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Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.