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Innovative Electronics Components and Circuit Designs for UHF RF Diplexer

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W15P7T-08-C-B402
Agency Tracking Number: A072-087-0197
Amount: $69,965.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A07-087
Solicitation Number: 2007.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-01-22
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-07-22
Small Business Information
Purdue Technology Center 3000 Kent Avenue Suite D1-106
West Lafayette, IN 47906
United States
DUNS: 141450135
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jacob Smelser
 President
 (765) 775-1011
 jsmelser@omegaws.com
Business Contact
 Jacob Smelser
Title: President
Phone: (765) 775-1011
Email: jsmelser@omegaws.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

RF diplexers are a common and critical element in military and commercial communications equipment, allowing two independent communications channels to share a common antenna network. A diplexer can be thought of as a special type of combiner or splitter which allows two transmit signals, two receive signals, or a transmit / receive pair to operate concurrently through a common antenna network. This capability provides the communications system designer considerable flexibility in terms of multiple simultaneous communications channels as well as the capacity for full duplex operation. Currently available commercial diplexer designs are approaching theoretical performance limits given the available substrate materials, metallization, and circuit topologies employed. Improvements in materials, processing, and design topologies are therefore required to improve upon diplexer electrical parameters such as insertion loss, VSWR, and isolation, and to improve or even remove the frequency spectrum “gap” in currently fielded systems. Removing or minimizing the “gap” would therefore allow for greater spectrum utilization as long as careful frequency management is employed. Omega Wireless Solutions recognizes the need for improved diplexer performance and therefore proposes to partner with CIS Microelectronics to leverage upon on-going research to develop an advanced integrated UHF diplexer module.

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