Global Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

A solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) is a type of amplifier that uses semiconductor devices, such as transistors, instead of vacuum tubes to amplify electronic signals. SSPAs are a series of combined field effect transmitters (FETs) that amplify the RF signals. FETs are formed of semiconductor materials such as Gallium Nitride (GaN) or Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), which, through their high band gaps and electron mobility, are more useful at high frequencies than traditional materials like silicon (Si). There are several different types of SSPA, including C-band SSPA, X-band SSPA, L&S-band SSPA, Ku-band SSPA, Ka-band SSPA, etc., each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) was designed for use in the most demanding applications, including Military, Commercial & Communication, Critical Infrastructure & Government.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) market finds that the global Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) market reached a value of USD 473.69 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 716.48 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 7.14% during the forecast period.

Today's emerging satellite broadband applications require high power amplifiers. In recent years, significant advances have been made in solid-state technology that has resulted in solid state power amplifiers (SSPA) becoming a truly viable alternative to the traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA) for microwave high power amplifier applications. Solid-state devices are also known as semiconductor electronics. Similar to TWTA, SSPA usually requires an integrated power supply, but the difference is that SSPA uses field effect transistors as the main device for RF power amplification, and the operating voltage is low and much easier to implement. Due to its low single output power, in order to achieve high power amplification, SSPAs need to place many power transistors in parallel to achieve output power synthesis. With the advantages of small size, lightweight, low operating voltage and high stability, the solid-state power amplifier SSPA is widely used in various fields and occupies an increasingly important position in the communication system.

Solid state power amplifiers are widely used in modern satellite communications, mobile communications, radar and electronic warfare and various industrial equipment because of their small size, low operating voltage, good stability, high linearity, low noise and other advantages. With the development of new standards and technologies in the field of personal wireless communications and the military, there is a growing demand to improve the performance of microwave power amplifier, so that it has higher output power, efficiency, and reliability in a wider frequency band.

The primary disadvantages of SSPAs include high-current draws, lower efficiencies at high frequencies, and lower power generation than TWTAs. Further, the power of FETs in the SSPAs generates large amounts of heat; this is one of the most challenging problems with SSPA design. While the basic RF module is smaller in comparison with those of TWTAs, the required heat sinks typically cause the overall SSPA package to be larger than the TWTA.

Region Overview:

In 2022, the share of the Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) market in North America stood at 41.05%.

Company Overview:

Qorvo
Qorvo is an American semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and supplies radio-frequency systems for applications that drive wireless and broadband communications, as well as foundry services. The company, which trades on NASDAQ, was created by the merger of TriQuint Semiconductor and RF Micro Devices, which was announced in 2014 and completed on January 1, 2015.

Wavestream Corp.

Wavestream, a Gilat subsidiary is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of next generation satellite communications high power transceivers for In-Flight Connectivity, Ground Mobility and Gateway markets. Since 2001, Wavestream provides system integrators with field-proven, high performance Ka, Ku and X-band Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs), Block Upconverters (BUCs), Block Down Converters and Transceivers.

Segmentation Overview:

By type, C-band SSPA segment accounted for the largest share of market in 2022.

Application Overview:

By application, the Military segment occupied the biggest share from 2018 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) market covered in Chapter 3:

Norsat International
Thales Group
Qorvo
Beverly Microwave Division (CPI BMD)
Wavestream Corp. 
Advantech Wireless
Teledyne Defense Electronics
MACOM
NEC Space Technologies
Diamond Microwave Limited
Mission Microwave
Empower RF Systems
ITS Electronics Inc.
KRATOS General Microwave

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

C-band SSPA
X-band SSPA
L&S-band SSPA
Ku-band SSPA
Ka-band SSPA
Others

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Military
Commercial & Communication
Critical Infrastructure & Government

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)