A UHF band 1.3 W monolithic amplifier with efficiency of 63%

Author

Takagi, T. ; Ikeda, Y. ; Seino, K. ; Toyoshima, G. ; Inoue, A. ; Kasai, N. ; Takada, M.

Author_Institution

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

1-3 June 1992

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

38

Abstract

A UHF-band 1.3-W high-efficiency, four-stage monolithic power amplifier with a novel miniaturized second-harmonic terminating circuit was developed. With the use of a parallel resonant circuit composed of lumped elements for terminating the second harmonic, it achieved a maximum drain efficiency of 63% and a saturated output power of higher than 31 dBm in the UHF band, and it occupied an area of 8.6*5.8 mm.<>

Keywords

MMIC; field effect integrated circuits; microwave amplifiers; power amplifiers; 1.3 W; 63 percent; 840 MHz to 1 GHz; GaAs substrate; UHF band four-stage monolithic power amplifier; active second harmonic load-pull; lumped elements; maximum drain efficiency; miniaturized second-harmonic terminating circuit; parallel resonant circuit; saturated output power; Circuit testing; FETs; Frequency; High power amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power measurement; Power system harmonics; RLC circuits; Radiofrequency amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium, 1992. Digest of Papers, IEEE 1992

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0677-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCS.1992.185991

Filename

185991