ALTER is an expert and trusted supplier in the field of engineering and testing of EEE components and equipment for space and other technology markets.
ALTER offers a wide range of services, from parts procurement to equipment testing, including radiation, packaging design and assembly, screening, destructive physical analysis, qualification, environmental testing, failure analysis, obsolescence management, counterfeit assessment and much more.
Packaging & Assembly
Alter Technology (formerly Optocap) is a technology-oriented company active in the field of optoelectronics, microelectronics and MEMS packaging design and assembly services Optoc...
Engineering and testing of Hi Rel electronic components
High reliability electronic components - Space electronic components. What Do We Offer to Our Customers?, comprehensive experience in the high reliability electronic components...
Certification & Equipment Testing
Product quality assurance of complex systems presents particular difficulties that require a solid expertise to achieve the objective without jeopardizing the time to market and op...
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Radiation Testing Services Electronics Parts
Radiation degrades EEE components and generates device perturbations that could lead to its malfunction or destruction. These effects are highly dependent on the radiation type: ga...
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SEE testing on GaAs test vehicles. Methodology, Results and Derating. Lessons Learned
Radiation sensitivity of GaAs components is not really well known, compare to other technologies. Tr...
Validation ASIC Space Applications
Traditionally ASICs (and FPGAs) used in space were manufactured using Rad-Hard technologies and desi...
Evaluation of 2.1μm DFB Lasers for Space Applications
Semiconductor lasers (or laser diodes) operating in the wavelength region of 1.8 µm to 3 µm are attr...
Remote Testing – New approach for Space
Since the Industry 4.0 concept was introduced into the market, factories and manufacturing processes...
Optoelectronic Components for Integration into Space
Spacecraft structural health-monitoring applications are pushed forward by increased constraints in...
Evaluation and Qualification of Fibre Pigtailed Lasers for ESA’s SMOS Mission
A dedicated evaluation and qualification campaign has been performed on several optical COTS compone...
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Balanced-to-Balanced Microstrip Diplexer Based on Magnetically Coupled Resonators
The use of differential (or balanced) digital and analog circuits for information processing has inc...
Reliability Assessment of Medium / Large Area PIN SI Photodiodes for Optical Wireless links for Intra – Spacecraft Communications
The Reliability Assessment of Area PIN SI Photodiodes was a exhibition theme in the First Internatio...
Evaluation of the Radiation Hardness of GaSbbased Laser Diodes for Space Applications
ASER diodes are increasingly used for space applications, either to pump solid state lasers, in phot...
SOLAR CELLS
The new century brought to the space a new type of solar cells with higher efficiencies and better r...
