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RFHIC Corp.
Anyang, South Korea
RFHIC's 6 kW, solid-state microwave generator provides enhanced performance for 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) applications, such as CVD reactors for artificial diamond growth, PVD thin film deposition equipment for semiconductor films and drying/sterilization for industrial food processing.
Using GaN power amplifiers (PA), the compact and lightweight RIU256K0-40T generator operates from 2.4 to 2.5 GHz, combining four, 1.6 kW GaN PAs into a stand-alone, rack mounted solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) that is modular and fault tolerant (see Figure 1). The SSPA supports both CW and pulse operation and can be customized to application requirements. With an adjustable power range from five to 100 percent of rated output, the RIU256K040T utilizes RFHIC's technology enabling high system efficiency at both low and high power levels (see Figure 2).
Each of the four GaN PAs in the generator uses RFHIC's high performance GaN on SiC transistor technology, which provides wide bandwidth, high efficiency, high breakdown voltage and reduces the overall size of the system. The RIU256K0-40T uses 200 W transistors (IE24200P), which have a saturated output power of 230 W and...