High power/high bandwidth GaN MMICs and hybrid amplifiers: Design and characterization

GAAS 2005 Conference Proceedings - 13th European Gallium Arsenide and Other Compound Semiconductors Application Symposium

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 373-376

  Van Raay, F ^a   Quay, R ^a   Kiefer, R ^a   Walcher, H ^a   Kappeler, O ^a   Seelmann Eggebert, M ^a   Muller S ^a   Schlechtweg, M ^a   Weimann, G ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND MICROSTRIP; COPLANAR MMIC AMPLIFIERS; PEAK POWER; POWER DENSITY;

BANDWIDTH; GALLIUM NITRIDE; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847239919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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