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.
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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...
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...
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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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Publications
Extreme Temperature Characterization of Passive Components
This article describes the setup developments and some of the results obtained for the temperature c...
Development of Liquid Crystal Based Adaptive Optical elements for Space Applications
Objectives of the project: Identify, review and evaluate the current status of programmable optoele...
SOLAR CELLS
The new century brought to the space a new type of solar cells with higher efficiencies and better r...
Assessing Radiation Hardness of SIC MOS Structures
This study aims to support the development of discrete European radiation hardened SiC power MOSFET...
SILICON CAPACITORS SPACE Pre-Evaluation
New space missions include more extreme requirements of storage and operational temperatures and vac...
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...
Quantum Transceiver for secure Space Communications
Quantum communications offers many advantages for secure data transmission, e.g. confidentiality, in...
Fast optical source for quantum key distribution based on semiconductor optical amplifiers
A novel integrated optical source capable of emitting faint pulses with different polarization state...
SiC Schottky Diodes Reliability Testing for Bepi Colombo
Fabrication technology and packaging strategy for 300V-5A Silicon Carbide Schottky diodes with a wid...
Assessment of Commercial Optical Amplifiers for Potential use in Space Applications
This paper describes the activities and results of an ESA-funded project concerned with the assessme...
