• DocumentCode
    3200120
  • Title

    Ku-band 10 W high efficiency HJFET power amplifier

  • Author

    Matsunaga, Kaori ; Okamoto, Yuji ; Kuzuhara, Masaaki

  • Author_Institution
    Kansai Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Shiga, Japan
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    16-20 May 1995
  • Firstpage
    335
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a record power performance of a Ku-band power amplifier fabricated with a one-chip 0.45 /spl mu/m gate GaAs-based heterojunction FET (HJFET). The developed HJFET amplifier with 16.8 mm gate periphery exhibited a 40.1 dBm (10.2 W) output power with 50% power-added efficiency (PAE) and 9.5 dB linear gain at 12 GHz. This is the highest PAE, gain and output power combination achieved by a single FET power amplifier at this frequency.<>
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; MMIC power amplifiers; field effect MMIC; gallium arsenide; microwave power amplifiers; 0.45 micron; 10 W; 12 GHz; 50 percent; 9.5 dB; GaAs; HJFET power amplifier; Ku-band; gate periphery; heterojunction FET; linear gain; output power; power-added efficiency; Breakdown voltage; FETs; Gallium arsenide; Heterojunctions; High power amplifiers; MESFETs; Microwave devices; Performance gain; Power amplifiers; Power generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1995., IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2581-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1995.405975
  • Filename
    405975