• DocumentCode
    2474056
  • Title

    High efficiency 11 watt octave S/C-band PHEMT MMIC power amplifier

  • Author

    Komiak, J.J. ; Wang, S.C. ; Rogers, T.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Sanders Associates Inc., Nashua, NH, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    8-13 June 1997
  • Firstpage
    1421
  • Abstract
    Design and performance of 0.25 um double fully selective recess PHEMT power amplifiers that have established new benchmarks for octave band power and efficiency are reported. The amplifiers tested from two lots, ten wafers total, average 11 Watts at 42% PAE with 17 dB power gain from 3 to 6 GHz, with peak performance of 17 Watts at 54.5% PAE and yields of 49.9%.
  • Keywords
    HEMT integrated circuits; MMIC power amplifiers; etching; integrated circuit yield; wideband amplifiers; 0.25 micron; 11 W; 17 W; 17 dB; 3 to 6 GHz; 42 percent; 54.5 percent; C-band; PAE; PHEMT MMIC power amplifier; S-band; double fully selective recess PHEMT; octave band efficiency; octave band power; power gain; yields; Broadband amplifiers; Costs; Etching; Gallium arsenide; High power amplifiers; Impedance; MMICs; PHEMTs; Power amplifiers; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1997., IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3814-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1997.596596
  • Filename
    596596