Design and analysis of a 34 dBm Ka-band GaN high power amplifier MMIC

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 75-78

  Van Heijningen, M ^a   Van Vliet, F E ^a   Quay, R ^b   Van Raay, F ^b   Seelmann Eggebert, M ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

GaN; MMIC power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

COPLANAR PASSIVE STRUCTURES; MMIC POWER AMPLIFIERS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 41549148721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMICC.2006.282754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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