Broadband radial waveguide power amplifier using a spatial power combining technique

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1179-1185

  Song, K ^a,b   Fan, Y ^a   Zhou, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FORMULAE; DEVICE FAILURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; POWER-COMBINING EFFICIENCY; RADIAL WAVEGUIDES; SMALL-SIGNAL GAIN; SPATIAL POWER COMBINING;

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 70449476947     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2008.0299     Document Type: Article

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