A 94-ghz 0.35-w power amplifier module

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 12 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2418-2423

  Huang, Pin Pin ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

HEMT; MMIC; PA

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; WAVEGUIDES;

POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0031366219     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.643854     Document Type: Article

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