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Teratech Components

Company designing and supplying monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules for radar, space and millimetre-wave instrumentation customers.

Company overview

Teratech Components is a spin-out from the UK’s STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The company designs and manufactures millimetre and sub-millimetre wave components using its Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) Schottky diode technology. It operates a dedicated foundry with proprietary fabrication processes at its facility in the Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. The company's diodes are designed for applications from 75 GHz to 1 THz and are key components in THz direct detectors, mixers, and frequency multipliers. Teratech's products serve markets including earth observation, defence and security, non-destructive testing, and scientific instrumentation. The company offers a range of standard diodes and can also develop custom designs to meet specific client requirements.

Semiconductor activity

Primary capability: RF / MMIC Design. Supply-chain role: Component Manufacturer, Design.

Technologies and capabilities

  • Gallium Arsenide / GaAs
  • RF
  • Schottky Diodes
  • Terahertz / Sub-millimetre Wave
  • Gallium Arsenide

Schottky Diodes; Single Anode Diodes; Detector Diodes; Anti-Parallel Diodes; Custom Diode Design

Markets served

  • Earth Observation
  • Remote Sensing
  • Non-Destructive Testing
  • Cloud Physics
  • Defence And Security
  • Scientific Instrumentation

UK presence

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire. Part of the Thames Valley cluster.

Research links: STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

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