A 2-watt balanced power amplifier MMIC for Ku-band satellite communications

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 342-344

  Kim, Jeong Geun ^a   Park, Hyun Min ^a   Kim, Jae Young ^b   Jeon, Sun Ik ^b   Hong, Songcheol ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Balanced power amplifier; Bus bar power combiner; GaAs pHEMT; Kuband PA

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TOPOLOGY;

BALANCED POWER AMPLIFIERS; BUS-BAR COMBINERS; KU-BAND POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL GAIN;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 3843052310     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.20297     Document Type: Article

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