A 20 watt micro-strip X-Band AlGaN/GaN HPA MMIC for advanced radar applications

Proceedings of the 38th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1433-1436

  Costrini, C ^a   Calori, M ^a   Cetronio, A ^a   Lanzieri, C ^a   Lavanga, S ^a   Peroni, M ^a   Limiti, E ^b   Serino, A ^b   Ghione, G ^c   Melone, G ^d  

^a SELEX SISTEMI INTEGRATI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d Consorzio OPTEL ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; FIBER LASERS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

ALGAN/GAN; ASSOCIATED GAINS; COMPRESSION POINTS; DRAIN VOLTAGES; GHZ FREQUENCIES; MICRO STRIPS; OPERATING BIAS POINTS; PULSED OUTPUTS; RADAR APPLICATIONS; SATURATED OUTPUT POWER; TWO STAGES; X-BAND MMIC;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING;

EID: 62349139067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2008.4751735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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