A flat gain/power responses 6-18 GHz power amplifier MMIC with high pae by using transformer networks

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 205-208

  Yu, Shu Jenn ^a   Hsu, Wei Chou ^a   Lee, Ching Sung ^b   Chang, Chlan Sern ^c   Wu, Chang Luen ^c   Chang, Ching Hsueh ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Transcom Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Balanced power amplifier; MMIC; Multisection impedance transformer network; pHEMT

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRON MOBILITY; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE); TRANSFORMER NETWORKS;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 38049174482     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.23033     Document Type: Article

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