Design of low-cost 4W & 6W MMIC high power amplifiers for Ka-band modules

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1673-1676

  Lyons, Michael R ^a   Grondahl, Christopher D ^a   Daoud, Scarlet M ^a  

^a US Monolithics   (United States)

Author keywords

Ka band; MMIC; PHEMT; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT DESIGN; KA-BAND; PHEMT; POWER DENSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATIONS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 4544288338     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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