Nancy Friedrich

Despite the constant innovation in the microwave industry, many products are rooted in the same technologies. Gallium arsenide (GaAs), for example, is at the heart of many of today's advanced amplifiers and other active components. Amidst this seeming status quo, however, lurk new innovations that could change the way that many products are made. These "disruptive technologies" can take the form of brand-new, completely novel approaches that have never been seen or reported. Or they may comprise an older technology that fell out of favor, but now has been reconfigured or re-invented to meet the needs of current and nextgeneration technologies.