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QorTek's mission is to enhance national defense and homeland security through
advanced reseach and testing of innovative electronics, materials and device engineering.
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Power Systems - QorTek leads the power electronics field in design and capability of high performance capacitive (piezoelectric, electrostrictive) drive electronics. QorTek can support advanced engineering efforts with our technology leading digital, analog and hybrid power & control solutions for peizomechinical and micromechanical systems. For nearly every piezoelectric device application low output noise is essential. Even small (voltage ripple) changes of the control voltage will cause perturbation from intended motion or position. Only QorTek can offer superb performance in extremely low noise ultracompact units. QorTek invented and holds multiple patents on the concepts of regenerative (energy recovery) power architectures for driving piezoelectric or electrostrictive devices. For dynamic high-power applications, our energy-recovery power amplifiers provide up to 15kVA single or 30kVA tandem peak power. These are available in a range from benchtop supplies that incorporate function generators to miniaturized ultracompact units that are comparable in size to the piezoelectric device or actuator. |
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Integrated Security & Anti-tamper Systems - With ever-growing acquisitions of advanced arms by allies and friendly foreign countries, it has become increasingly important to protect both the United States' technological investments, and the security that lies behind them. QorTek is currently researching innovative materials and devices to enhance the immunity of sensitive military electronics to reverse engineering efforts. |
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Medical Systems Technology - QorTek is developing and applying its proprietary and patented micro-technologies in sensing, actuation, control and power to advances in non-invasive medical surgery, medical drug delivery, surgical training and patient safety. |
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Defense & Space Systems - QorTek is at the forefront of developing integrated sensor, actuator, control and electronics systems for a wide variety of military and NASA customers. These include advances in flow monitoring/control, ultra-high precision active/adaptive optics, ultralight sensor measurement systems and signal/acquisition processing, cutomized mechatronic systems for isolation/positioning/pointing. |
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Digital, Micro and Nano Systems - To enhance QorTek's advanced Power, Medical and Security research, QorTek designs in house advanced digital controllers and algorithms. QorTek houses a whole suite of TI DSP and Microcontroller development boards, programming tools and software, including LabVIEW®, LabWindows/CVI™, MATLAB® and SPICE tools. Combining our digital microcontroller systems with micro/nano-level tools and devices, micro-UAVs, micro/nano factories, micro-sensing and fully solid-state micro-power conversion/conditioning and control enables us to develop state of the art systems. |
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