GOLDEN, Colo.-Superconducting Core Technologies announced it concluded an exclusive purchase and supply agreement for superconducting thin films with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.
SCT said it is guaranteed an exclusive supply of superconducting thin films and patterned components for commercial wireless communications applications from DuPont. SCT uses high-temperature superconducting thin films to produce high-performance filters that are incorporated into a variety of its products. SCT’s first-generation product line is the Reach receiver front end, a tower-mounted subsystem that provides highly selective filtering and significantly increases receiver sensitivity.
SCT and Nokia Telecommunications Cellular Systems announced they have successfully completed tests of SCT’s cryoelectronic Reach receiver front end. The Reach was tested in Nokia’s 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications test bed in Oulu, Finland, in November.
In August, SCT said Qualcomm Inc. announced that the Reach improved receiver noise by 6 dB, an improvement that could reduce the number of base stations required for a personal communications services deployment on a Code Division Multiple Access network by up to 50 percent.
