Specialist semiconductor wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) has announced that its Pennsylvania based operation is to take part in the development of carbon-based, radio-frequency integrated circuits as part of the U.S. government’s Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program.
The work, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is seeking to exploit the properties of graphene to create components that will enable unprecedented capabilities in high-bandwidth communications, imaging, and radar systems.
