Microwave RF and IF Solutions
Crane A&E’s Microwave group offers custom integrated microwave assembly solutions and an extensive suite of proven microwave components for aerospace and defense applications. Our patented Multi-MixTM technology enables us to supply IMAs with unmatched size and weight reduction.
Microwave RF and IF Solutions
Crane A&E’s Microwave group offers custom integrated microwave assembly solutions and an extensive suite of proven microwave components for aerospace and defense applications. Our patented Multi-MixTM technology enables us to supply IMAs with unmatched size and weight reduction.
Microwave & RF Product Lines
Integrated Microwave Assemblies
Industry-trusted IMAs include beamformers, complex oscillator assemblies, frequency converter assemblies and switch matrix systems for defense, satellite and commercial applications.
Component and Single
Function Devices
With more than 1,000 custom designs, Crane A&E has a wealth of experience is manufacturing an array of devices for defense, satellite and commercial end-use designs.
Space Qualified Passive Products
Our broad selection of pre-qualified space passive products for defense and commercial satellite customers allows us to provide high-reliability designs with shorter delivery and reduced cost.
Capacitors
The combination of pure Teflon™ (PTFE) and Polyflon’s proprietary electroplating process allows us to produce non-magnetic capacitors with superior performance.
Microwave Substrates
Our Microwave substrate offerings include CuFlon, NorClad, Polyguide and Polyflon Bonding Film - each tailored to provide the optimal solution for a range of RF/Microwave electronics needs.
Process Solutions
Our Microwave group possesses years of Microwave processing experience and specializes in electroplated plastics, precision machining and printed circuit fabrication.
Applications
Multi-Mix Technology
Crane A&E's Multi-Mix Microtechnology is an innovative process for fusing multilayer integrated circuits and micro-multifunction modules (MMFM). This process is based on fluoropolymer composite substrates, which are bonded together into a multilayer structure using a fusion bonding process. This technology allows the integration of active and passive functions into self-contained modules that are a fraction of the size of conventional hybrid units.
Benefits:
- Integration of active RF and passive RF components
- Reduce size, weight and component costs
- Reduce parts count and complexity
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Multilayer Process
The bonding process embeds MMICs, etched resistors, circuit patterns and plated-through holes to form a surface mount module requiring no further packaging. In fact, the MMFM structure becomes the package. This low-profile structure is very lightweight and the surface-mount format is compatible with microstrip or coplanar waveguide. The process controls of the Multi-Mix method allow a low-cost manufacturing approach that is suitable for high or low volume production. The platform strategy of MMFM reduces engineering cycle times and enables the Multi-Mix process to be an economical solution for new designs.
Rich Legacy of Microwave Excellence
Crane’s Microwave expertise stretches back decades. Over the years, many highly-regarded component manufacturers came together to form what we now know as Crane Aerospace & Electronics’ Microwave Solution. All of these brands have made major contributions to the technologies Crane provides today. With this breadth of capability, our customers know Crane can deliver the right component or integrated assembly for many different applications.
Heritage Brands: Merrimac, Signal Technology, Olektron, Microsonics, Western Microwave, Innowave, Spectra, Addington Laboratories, Varian Solid State Microwave