KVG Quartz Crystal Technology GmbH

Experience and innovation:

1946. Right after the end of World War II the physicist Kurt Klingsporn founded the company and moved to Neckarbischofsheim near Heidelberg. In 1996 KVG merged with DOVER Inc. as their European production line for crystals and crystal products. In 1997 KVG acquired Quarzkeramik in Stockdorf, which is a well-known company for OCXOs and High Precision crystals around the world.

Since 2002 KVG is again an owner managed company. The owners and presidents, Manfred Klimm and Gerd Krauskopf, have had leading positions in this market for many years.

The history of KVG can be compared with a chronology of progress:

1963 KVG uses synthetic crystal material

1964 Design and production of crystal filters

1968 Production of temperature compensated oscillators TCXOs

1970 Direct plating technology in crystal production

1971 Production of monolithic crystal filters

1972 Convex shaped crystal blanks in production

1974 Introduction of X-ray based angle selection

1979 Computer based temperature measurements of Crystals

1981 Computer based compensation networks for TCXOs

1983 Quartz sensors and OCXOs

1987 Computer aided quality control

1988 Introduction of surface mount technology for oscillators

1993 VCXOs mit 622.08MHz

1994 Production of HFF fundamental mode crystals up to 200 MHz

1994 Production of SC-cut crystals for OCXOs

1995 Introduction of laser trimming in oscillator production

1997 Design and production of SMD OCXOs series OCXO-6000

1998 Production of high stability ASIC-TCXOs

1999 High frequency VCXOs based on HFF Inverted Mesa crystals

2000 New production line for High precision crystals

2002 KVG becomes an independent company again

2003 Introduction of digitally calibrated crystal oscillators

2005 Design of low phase noise OCXOs

2007 Design of space crystals

2008 Design of space crystal oscillators

2009 Reconstruction of the production facilities

2010 Reorganisation - crystals and oscillator fabs are again on KVG area

2010 Design of low G-Sensitivity OCXOs

2011 ESA certificate of qualification for space crystals

2013 ESA certified vendor for crystal oscillators XO’s and VCXO’s

2014 Introduction of mechanical damped OCXO modules

2015 Desing of Ultra low Phase Noise RF-OCXO and very low G-Sensitivity OCXO

2016 Design of Ultra low G Sensitivity OCXOs

New designs in the field of oven controlled oscillators - like enhanced low g sensitivity (LGS) technology - and new RF TCXOs and OCXOs are again setting the standards in the field of crystals and crystal oscillators.

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