Title :
A design of C-band improved radial power combiner
Author :
Cheng Haifeng ; Zhang Bin
Author_Institution :
Nat. Key Lab. of Monolithic Integrated Circuits & Modules, Nanjing Electron. Devices Inst., China
Abstract :
This paper shows a design of improved radial power combiner used for combining a large number of MMIC power amplifiers. We analyzed the characteristics of the MMIC power amplifiers, and developed a 16 way improved radial power combiner worked at 5-6 GHz which has the VSWRs of both input and output < 1.7, the ports imbalance of the amplitude < ±0.4, as well as the phase < ±2 degrees, a high isolations, and also has a small size of 56 mm diameter. The combiner is expected to reach an efficiency of near 90%.
Keywords :
MMIC power amplifiers; power combiners; C-band; MMIC power amplifiers; frequency 5 GHz to 6 GHz; radial power combiner; size 56 mm; High power amplifiers; Impedance; Isolation technology; Laboratories; MMICs; Microwave devices; Monolithic integrated circuits; Power amplifiers; Power combiners; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, 2008. ICSICT 2008. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2185-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2186-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICSICT.2008.4734809
