A balanced sub-millimeter wave power amplifier

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 399-402

  Deal, W R ^a   Mei, X B ^a   Radisic, V ^a   Bayuk, B ^a   Fung, A ^b   Yoshida, W ^a   Liu, P H ^a   Uyeda, J ^a   Samoska, L ^b   Gaier, T ^b   Lai, R ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguide; HEMT; Millimeter wave; MMIC; Power amplifier

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIM DEVICES; WAVE POWER;

A CENTERS; BALANCED AMPLIFIERS; BRANCH-LINE COUPLERS; DRIVE POWERS; HEMT; HIGH GAINS; LUMPED ELEMENTS; MATCHING NETWORKS; MIM CAPACITORS; MMIC; MW OUTPUTS; OUTPUT POWERS; POWER ADDED EFFICIENCIES; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFTS; SMALL SIGNAL GAINS; SOLID STATE AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 57349083170     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2008.4633187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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