At IMS 2026, everything RF spoke with Stephen Martin, Director of Marketing, Spectrum Control, who highlighted the company's Innovation Discovery Zone, featuring RF and microwave technologies that range from individual components to highly integrated subsystems for aerospace, defense, communications, and cryogenic applications.
Martin showcased a broad portfolio of solutions including cryogenic-resistant RF components, low-noise amplifiers, ultraminiature RF filters, gain equalizers, EMI filtering products, RF front ends, and System-in-Package (SiP) technologies. The company also demonstrated its Filter Connector Express platform, which enables engineers to configure customized filtered connector solutions for D38999, D-sub, and Micro-D connectors with shorter lead times.
Among the products on display were Spectrum Control's cryogenic RF solutions including attenuators, terminations, and resistive components, available in both surface-mount and coaxial formats and capable of operating at temperatures down to 4 millikelvin. The company also highlighted its low-noise, low-phase-noise RF amplifiers for radar and missile-seeker applications, as well as ultraminiature glass RF filters measuring approximately 2mm × 6mm, designed to provide high-performance filtering in space-constrained systems.
Spectrum Control's portfolio of standard and custom gain equalizers was also featured, supporting slope, parabolic, and broadband equalization requirements across a wide frequency range. For EMI mitigation, the company's Filter Connector Express platform allows users to specify pin-to-pin filtering configurations through a self-service process, providing customized filtered connector solutions with reduced delivery times.
The company also demonstrated its mezzanine RF front-end platform, which covers frequencies from 2 to 18 GHz and supports configurable transmit and receive architectures with one to eight or more channels. In addition, Spectrum Control showcased its RF System-in-Package (SiP) technology, which integrates multiple RF functions into compact packages to enable further miniaturization. The display also included a dual-channel frequency extender platform capable of extending signals from 2–18 GHz into the millimeter-wave range up to 40 GHz.
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