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LONDON (Alliance News) - Semiconductor wafer product manufacturer IQE PLC said Monday it will participate in a new GBP850,000 research project for wireless inter-connectivity of 5G mobile infrastructure.
The DLINK research project - funded by the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council - is being led by Lancaster University and the University of Glasgow. The educational establishments will be working with industrial partners including BT Group PLC and Filtronic PLC as well as IQE.
The role of IQE in the DLINK project will see it provide epitaxial wafer semiconductor needs for high-quality InP-based Resonant Tunnelling Diode structures. This extends the work it did for a previous research programme, iBROW.
"5G networks will function across an unprecedented frequency range from traditional cellular bands to millimetre wave," IQE Vice President Wayne Johnson said.
"IQE offers a powerful array of materials solutions enabling 5G, including enhanced efficiency GaAs HBT PAs, novel RF filter products utilising IQE's proprietary cREO technology, and high performance switches for mobile devices, GaN HEMTs for wireless infrastructure, InP products for high-speed oscillators and photodiodes, and many more," Johnson added. "This DLINK program is another example of how compound semiconductors produced by IQE will continue to fuel the connected world as it transitions to 5G platforms."
Shares in IQE were 1.8% higher at 91.25 pence on Monday.
