• DocumentCode
    2153754
  • Title

    High efficiency LOW AM/PM 6W C-band MMIC power amplifier for a space radar program

  • Author

    Butel, Y. ; Adam, T. ; Cogo, B. ; Soulard, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Alcatel Space Industries - 26 AV. JF Champollion -BP 1187 - 31037 Toulouse -France. yves.butel@space.alcatel.fr
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    Oct. 2000
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the design of a compact C-band MMIC power amplifier. Intensive non-linear and electro-magnetic simulations with accurate table-based models allowed the chips to achieve very good performance. A linear gain of 28 dB, an output power greater than 6 W with 50 % of power added efficiency and 3°/dB of AM/PM conversion at 2.5 dB gain compression have been measured over production at ambient temperature in the useful bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    Gain measurement; High power amplifiers; MMICs; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power measurement; Production; Semiconductor device measurement; Spaceborne radar; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European
  • Conference_Location
    Paris, France
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.2000.338704
  • Filename
    4139717
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2153754