Design guidelines for a novel tapered drain line distributed power amplifier

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1274-1277

  Prasad, S N ^a   Ibrahim, Amir S ^b  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed amplifier; Distributed power amplifier; Power amplifier; Tapered drain line distributed amplifier; Wideband power amplifier

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC LINES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; DISTRIBUTED POWER AMPLIFIERS; TAPERED DRAIN LINE DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; WIDEBAND POWER AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 41649098939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2006.281228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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