The shift toward industrial electrification is rapidly accelerating. Driven by efficiency improvements, sustainability goals, and advances in technology, electrification is transforming how energy is generated, stored, and delivered. While electrically powered technology is often associated with renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs), its impact extends much further. Across manufacturing, transportation, energy infrastructure, and automation, organizations are increasingly redefining power system designs, driving a systemic shift from fossil-fuel to electric-powered industrial processes.

Modern missiles are packed with a diverse, ever-evolving set of multifunction components. While this makes modern missiles smarter and more efficient than ever, these converging technologies also increase RF complexity and can compound challenges within this fixed-size, compact platform. That’s why it’s important to understand how these subsystems impact one another and the RF solutions required to reduce the risk of interference and malfunction. 

 Across aerospace and defense applications, industrial systems, and medical devices, modern technologies increasingly depend on precise, reliable, and repeatable power delivered within tightly controlled timeframes. These requirements place growing demands on the components that store and release energy, particularly capacitors. 

Ceramic core inductors are widely used in RF and microwave circuits where stable inductance, reliable performance, and consistent manufacturability are important. They are commonly used in filtering, impedance matching, oscillators, and other RF signal conditioning applications across a wide range of commercial and industrial designs.

As demand continues to grow for cost-effective and reliable RF components, Knowles is expanding its ceramic core inductor portfolio to support standard commercial, industrial, telecom, and medical applications that require dependable and consistent RF performance.

Energy storage capacitor banks supply pulsed power in all manner of high-current applications, including shockless compression and fusion. As the technology behind capacitor banks advances with more precise switching and higher energy density, fast discharge capacitors can reliably support more advanced applications.  

Satellite communication (satcom) systems have undergone a revolutionary transformation in recent years. The industry has shifted from multi-billion-dollar GEO satellites to million-dollar LEO satellites, reducing costs by three orders of magnitude while exponentially increasing the number of satellites in orbit.

Radio frequency (RF) power dividers are designed to split an incoming signal into multiple outputs such that there’s a portion of the original signal’s power in each output. Given their critical function, power dividers play a particularly important role in antenna systems, telecommunications, and signal processing.

Common Data Link (CDL) is a secure U.S. military communications protocol. Established by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 1991, CDL is the primary standard for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data transmission, enabling full-duplex, jam-resistant digital communications between airborne platforms, ground stations, and naval vessels. CDL supports real-time distribution of video, imagery, and sensor data critical for modern military operations.

Powering everything from pulsed lasers to experimental fusion reactors, pulsed power systems demand fast, controlled energy delivery. High-performance capacitors are key to this capability. 

As engineers embed receivers for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), like GPS and Galileo, into systems ranging from autonomous vehicles to precision agriculture, the RF environment is becoming more crowded, and it’s more difficult to maintain signal integrity.