• DocumentCode
    3301573
  • Title

    A CW 4 watt Ka-band power amplifier utilizing MMIC multi-chip technology

  • Author

    Matsunaga, K. ; Miura, I. ; Iwata, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Kansai Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Shiga, Japan
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    17-20 Oct. 1999
  • Firstpage
    153
  • Lastpage
    156
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a 28 GHz power amplifier with 4.5 W output power under CW operation. The amplifier utilizes four fully-matched MMICs, in which 0.35 /spl mu/m-long gate GaAs-based heterojunction FETs are employed. The developed power amplifier also provides the highest CW output power of 3 W over the bandwidth of 2 GHz at Ka-band.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; MMIC power amplifiers; field effect MMIC; gallium arsenide; impedance matching; integrated circuit design; microwave power amplifiers; 0.35 micron; 2 GHz; 28 GHz; 3 W; 4.5 W; CW operation; GaAs; Ka-band; MMIC multi-chip technology; fully-matched MMICs; heterojunction FETs; output power; power amplifier; Broadband amplifiers; Distributed parameter circuits; Equivalent circuits; FETs; Heterojunctions; Impedance matching; MMICs; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power transmission lines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    GaAs IC Symposium, 1999. 21st Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    1064-7775
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5585-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GAAS.1999.803748
  • Filename
    803748