Radio Frequency Electronics: We are accelerating the heartbeat of digitalization
Radio Frequency Electronics from AT&S combine proven manufacturing techniques such as embedding and mSAP with new approaches such as air cavities to create highly miniaturized, integrated systems that process signals with extremely high frequencies quickly, efficiently and with minimal losses. This is important for the production of radar sensors for self-driving cars, for example, because higher frequencies equals better resolution. In addition, high-frequency signals achieve much higher data rates in wireless communication. Future generations of mobile phone and WLAN networks will operate at frequencies of 100 gigahertz and more to achieve their unprecedented data rates. Conventional electronic systems quickly hit a wall here, because higher frequencies require smaller antennas with much shorter signal paths.
Radio Frequency Electronics by AT&S are essential for building the wireless data infrastructure that will enable the next evolutionary step in digitalization.
Product benefits at a glance
- Higher bandwidths and data rates
- Halogen-free products possible
- Energy-saving data centers
We make your data faster
Our many years of experience with highly miniaturized IC substrates and the embedding of active and passive components allow us to design radio frequency electronics that make our customers and their products fit for the future. We supply integrated systems from a single source that combine several radio frequency antennas and their intelligent control in an efficient package, which makes new frequency ranges accessible. By embedding signal amplifiers and microcontrollers, all signal paths remain short, which allows loss-prone high-frequency signals to be transmitted efficiently and with minimal energy consumption. Our highly developed laser drilling technology makes it possible to reduce losses even further by providing optimal electrical connections.
Next step requires new approaches
The higher the frequency of the signals, the more data can be transmitted wirelessly. However, this also increases the challenges for engineers. Losses become a decisive factor for the efficiency of systems with short-wavelength signals. The tiny antennas that are required here must do their work as close as possible to the microchips that are responsible for processing. This is already relevant in today’s mobile networks and further miniaturization of antenna modules will be essential for the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure.
AT&S is already perfectly positioned to meet the needs of our customers for the upcoming 6G communication infrastructure in the usual quality with highly developed embedding capabilities, own capacities for the virtual development of high frequency solutions without costly prototypes and the self-developed “Air Cavity” technology, which practically eliminates signal losses in our antenna packages. This technical advantage also reduces the ecological footprint of our products because no halogens are required to create high-frequency systems with Air Cavities.
Light for the future
The amount of data that humanity needs to handle is increasing not only in mobile networks, but also in all areas of information processing. In order to be fit for the future, AT&S is developing integrated switches that convert electrical signals into optical signals to offer customers completely new possibilities with less power consumption, lower losses, higher data rates, and without the need for complex thermal management and shielding. In the huge data centers of AI providers, connecting the computing cores with this new technology can ensure enormous energy savings and thus lower costs and greater sustainability.
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