Cobham introduces SOLSTx family
Cobham has announced the development of a new family of Gallium-Nitride (GaN) solid state transmitter solutions for ground, maritime and airborne radar applications.
Called SOLSTx, the family is available in a variety of frequency ranges, power levels, packaging and end market applications, including radar used for air traffic control, weather, telemetry, fire control, and long range surveillance.
Cobham has taken a modular design approach to overcome some of the drawbacks of current transmitter designs. This includes allowing for graceful degradation over the life of the hardware versus instantaneous shutdown in the event of a hardware failure as can be the case with vacuum electronics devices, such as klystrons, traveling wave tubes, magnetrons and crossed-field amplifiers
Jeff Hassannia, senior vice president of business development and technology, Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions, said: ‘The GaN-based solid state technology on which SOLSTx is built offers a number of advantages over traditional systems such as increased mean time between critical failure, reduced operation and sustainment costs, and notably, significantly lower out of band emission which reduces interference with adjacent radars and communication signals.’
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