A 4-watt X-band compact coplanar high power amplifier MMIC with 18-dB gain and 25-% PAE

Technical Digest - GaAs IC Symposium (Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 189-192

  Bessemoulin, Alexandre ^a,b   Massler, H ^b   Quay, Ruediger ^b   Ramberger, S ^b   Schlechtweg, M ^b  

^a United Monolithic Semiconductors GmbH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC LINES; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

HIGH POWER AMPLIFIERS (HPA);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0036438404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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