A four-stage Ku-Band 1 watt PHEMT MMIC power amplifier

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 33-36

  Liu, H Z ^a   Wang, C C ^a   Wang, Y H ^a   Huang, J W ^b   Chang, C H ^b   Wu, W ^b   Wu, C L ^b   Chang, C S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Transcom Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Four stage; Ku Band; MMIC; Power amplifier

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS;

FOUR-STAGE AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0036440703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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