Charlotte, NC, Feb. 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or the “Company”), a manufacturer of patented single-crystal BulkONE® bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications, announced today that its headquarters facility located in Huntersville, NC has received ISO 9001:2015 certification, which is the internationally recognized standard that establishes criteria for a company’s quality management system. This completes the company-wide certification for ISO 9001:2015 for all of Akoustis’ facilities.
The NC facility previously earned certification under ISO 9001:2008 in 2015 and has passed each subsequent surveillance audit. The new certification was achieved through a rigorous, process-based audit resulting in a certificate being awarded February 26, 2018. Certification to this standard is evidence of the organization’s commitment to continual improvement and customer satisfaction by aligning the quality and business management systems.
Joel Morgan, Director of Quality, commented, “This certification is the result of focused effort from the organization, which is recognized and appreciated by our customers, but equally as important, it reflects the culture that is being cultivated in our organization to continually improve and to meet or exceed our customer’s expectations. All Akoustis facilities are now certified and our customers can be completely confident that we are fully committed to providing the highest quality products and the highest level of service to enable their success.”
Akoustis is pioneering next-generation materials science to address the market requirements for improved RF filters - targeting higher bandwidth, higher operating frequencies and higher output power compared to incumbent polycrystalline BAW technology deployed today. Superior performance is driven by the significant advances of high-purity, single-crystal piezoelectric materials and the resonator-filter process technology. The advanced material properties drive electro-mechanical coupling, which translates to wide filter bandwidth. High-band RF filters are achieved by leveraging the Company’s high-sound velocity, single-crystal piezoelectric materials. These single-crystal piezoelectric materials offer high-thermal conductivity along the path of heat flow, enabling high-power handling capability of the RF filter. The Company has announced four customer engagements for its premium high band BAW RF filters in frequencies ranging from 1.5 GHz to 5.2 GHz and remains focused on customer design engineering engagements, as well as technology and product qualification for commercial manufacturing in first-half of calendar year 2018.
About Akoustis Technologies, Inc.
Akoustis® (http://www.akoustis.com) is a high-tech RF filter solutions company that designs and manufactures its unique, patented BulkONE® technology to produce single-crystal bulk acoustic wave (BAW) RF filters for mobile and other wireless markets, which facilitate signal acquisition and accelerate band performance between the antenna and digital back end. Its BulkONE® technology will service the fast growing multi-billion dollar market of device OEMs, network providers, and consumers to diminish Front End phone heat, battery drain and signal loss -- all considered to be directly related to current RF polycrystalline filter technologies' limitations. The Company owns and operates a 120,000 sq. ft. ISO-9001 certified commercial wafer-manufacturing facility located in Canandaigua, NY, which includes a class 100 / class 1000 cleanroom facility - tooled for 150-mm diameter wafers - for the design, development, fabrication and packaging of RF filters, MEMS and semiconductor devices. Akoustis is headquartered in the Piedmont technology corridor near Charlotte North Carolina.
