{"id":77310,"date":"2014-06-04T22:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-grumman-launches-two-high-power-gan-amplifiers-for-ka-band-terminals\/"},"modified":"2014-06-04T22:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:25:22","slug":"northrop-grumman-launches-two-high-power-gan-amplifiers-for-ka-band-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-grumman-launches-two-high-power-gan-amplifiers-for-ka-band-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman Launches Two High Power GaN Amplifiers for Ka-band Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-04-2014] <b>Northrop Grumman<\/b> released two new high power gallium nitride (GaN) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) power amplifiers for Ka-band satellite terminals and point-to-point digital communication links. The APN228 and APN229 power amplifiers provide saturated output power of 13 and 8 watts, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The amplifiers operate between 27 and 31 GHz and allow for higher data rates when integrated with high efficiency Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGaN-based SSPAs are a far more desirable solution to costly traveling-wave tubes which require more complex, high voltage power supplies and a lengthier production time,\u201d said Frank Kropschot, general manager of microelectronics products and services at Northrop Grumman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-04-2014] Northrop Grumman released two new high power gallium nitride (GaN) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) power amplifiers for Ka-band satellite terminals and point-to-point digital communication links. The APN228 and APN229 power amplifiers provide saturated output power of 13 and 8 watts, respectively. The amplifiers operate between 27 and 31 GHz and allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}