Development of a Liquid Crystal Polymer low noise amplifier module at Ka-band

Author

Mamidanna, Manish ; Anh-Vu Pham ; Montauti, Fabrizio

Author_Institution

Davis Millimeter Wave Res. Center, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

1-6 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The design and development of a Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) low noise amplifier module with an integrated waveguide input at Ka-band is presented. The LCP module houses two low noise amplifiers and an integrated band-pass filter. The integrated waveguide input transition to a microstrip achieves a measured insertion loss of 0.2 dB to 0.3 dB from 27 to 31 GHz. The LCP module has a measured noise figure of ~2.5 dB and a gain of 30 dB.

Keywords

band-pass filters; liquid crystal polymers; low noise amplifiers; microstrip filters; microwave amplifiers; Ka-band; LCP; frequency 27 GHz to 31 GHz; gain 30 dB; integrated band-pass filter; integrated waveguide input transition; liquid crystal polymer; loss 0.2 dB to 0.3 dB; low noise amplifier module; microstrip; Copper; Gold; Indexes; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave antennas; Microwave circuits; Noise; Ka-band; liquid crystal polymer (LCP); low noise amplifier; microstrip; monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); waveguide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848621

Filename

6848621