Title :
Conditionally stable amplifier design using constant /spl mu/-contours
Author :
Edwards, M.L. ; Sheng Cheng
Author_Institution :
Appl. Phys. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
Conditionally stable amplifiers can be an attractive design option for commercial applications where increased gain can be achieved by accepting a measured risk of instability. A procedure is presented for designing amplifier input and output matching networks which permits an a-priori, quantitative trade-off between gain and the stability parameter, /spl mu/.
Keywords :
S-parameters; circuit stability; impedance matching; microwave amplifiers; network synthesis; signal flow graphs; conditionally stable amplifier design; constant /spl mu/-contours; gain; input matching networks; output matching networks; stability parameter; Circuit stability; Distributed parameter circuits; Flow graphs; Impedance matching; Microwave circuits; Power amplifiers; Power transmission lines; Propagation losses; Scattering parameters; Transmission line matrix methods;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 1996., IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3246-6
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.1996.511074
