Design and Nonlinear Analysis of High-Gain and Broad-Band Distributed Power Amplifier with Traveling-Wave Gain Stages By Harmonic Balance Method

Author

Asadi, S. ; Abdipour, A. ; Tavakoli, A. ; Moradi, G.

Author_Institution

Amirkabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

835

Lastpage

837

Abstract

This paper demonstrates a three-stage hybrid-distributed amplifier based on Darlington configuration to achieve high gain and over several octaves of bandwidth for microwave and millimeter-wave frequency applications. The Darlington single-stage distributed amplifier (DSSDA) is used as traveling wave gain stages to improve the gain performance of the conventional distributed amplifier. This configuration achieves 14plusmn1 dB small signal flat gain from 1 to 40 GHz and output power at 1-dB gain compression is 19plusmn1 dBm over the desired band.

Keywords

distributed amplifiers; network analysis; network synthesis; power amplifiers; wideband amplifiers; Darlington configuration; broadband distributed power amplifier; design analysis; harmonic balance; high-gain distributed power amplifier; nonlinear analysis; traveling-wave gain stages; Bandwidth; Decision support systems; Distributed amplifiers; Frequency; Harmonic analysis; High power amplifiers; Microwave amplifiers; Millimeter wave technology; Performance gain; Power system harmonics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Electronics, 2006. ICSE '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9730-4

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9731-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMELEC.2006.380754

Filename

4266737