Charlotte, N.C., Oct. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS), a manufacturer of patented bulk acoustic wave (“BAW”) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications, announced today that it intends to offer and sell shares of its common stock and $10 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 in concurrent underwritten offerings. Neither offering is contingent on the completion of the other offering.
Akoustis also expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of common stock offered in the common stock offering solely to cover over-allotments. Each offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when such offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of such offering.
Akoustis intends to use the net proceeds from the proposed offerings to fund operations and the growth of its business, including for capital expenditures, working capital, research and development, the commercialization of its technology and other general corporate purposes.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. is acting as sole book-running manager for the common stock offering and sole underwriter for the notes offering.
About Akoustis Technologies, Inc.
Akoustis® (http://www.akoustis.com) is a high-tech BAW RF filter solutions company that is pioneering next-generation materials science and microelectromechanical systems (“MEMS”) wafer manufacturing 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. The Company utilizes its proprietary XBAW manufacturing process to produce BAW RF filters for mobile and other wireless markets, which facilitate signal acquisition and accelerate band performance between the antenna and digital back end. Superior performance is driven by the significant advances of high-purity, single-crystal and associated piezoelectric materials and the resonator-filter process technology which drives electro-mechanical coupling and translates to wide filter bandwidth.
