A 10-mW submillimeter-wave solid-state power-amplifier module

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 7 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1903-1909

  Radisic, Vesna ^a   Deal, William R ^a   Leong, Kevin M K H ^a   Mei, X B ^a   Yoshida, Wayne ^a   Liu, Po Hsin ^a   Uyeda, Jansen ^a   Fung, Andy ^b   Samoska, Lorene ^b   Gaier, Todd ^b   Lai, Richard ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguide (CPW); HEMT; Millimeter wave; Module; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Power amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER MODULES; HEMT; INP HEMT; MILLIMETER WAVE MODULE; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; ON CHIPS; POWER COMBINING; SATURATED OUTPUT POWER; SMALL-SIGNAL GAIN; SOLID STATE POWER AMPLIFIER; TANDEM COUPLER; WAVEGUIDE FLANGES; WAVEGUIDE TRANSITION; WIREBONDING;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77954659478     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2050105     Document Type: Article

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