The state of the art for broadband MMIC amplifier design in Philips UK

Author

Buck, C. ; Jones, S. ; Minnis, B.J. ; Roberts, S. ; Steenson, P.

Author_Institution

Philips Microwave, Hazel Grove, UK

fYear

1988

fDate

32458

Firstpage

42461

Lastpage

42465

Abstract

The authors describe some of the recent achievements made in Philips UK in the area of microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs). Philips UK in this case is represented by Philips Research Laboratories (PRL) in Redhill and by Philips Microwave in Hazel Grove. Both members of the company have been cooperating over the past three years in a programme of work on MMICs which not only moves forward the state of the art but also establishes a processing and manufacturing capability in the factory. Two distributed amplifier circuits are described. The first is an 18-26 GHz design and the second a 2-6 GHz design. They have applications in the fields of electronic warfare (EW) and radar. After a brief discussion of the circuit design concepts, the authors cover practical details of the passive and active component parts of the amplifiers, predicted performances, measured performances and yield

Keywords

MMIC; field effect integrated circuits; microwave amplifiers; wideband amplifiers; 18 to 26 GHz; 2 to 6 GHz; Hazel Grove; MMIC amplifier design; Philips Microwave; Philips Research Laboratories; Philips UK; Redhill; SHF; broadband; distributed amplifier circuits; electronic warfare; microwave monolithic integrated circuits; radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimetre Wave Monolithic Integrated Circuits, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

Filename

209614