• DocumentCode
    2147790
  • Title

    A Ka-Band, Mixed Microstrip/Waveguide Power Amplifier Module Design Based on A Ternary Combination of Power Elements

  • Author

    Ruberto, M. ; Shapir, I. ; Matarasso, S. ; Nativ, Z. ; Brietbard, A. ; Nahum, A

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Microwave and Millimeter-wave Subsystems, RAFAEL, P.O. Box 2250 / 87, Haifa 31021 Israel. Tel: +972-4-8794360 Fax: +972-4-8792037, e-mail: mruberto@rafael.co.il
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    Oct. 1999
  • Firstpage
    177
  • Lastpage
    180
  • Abstract
    A power amplifier module design is presented here, which sums the power from nine Ka-band MMIC power amplifiers by ternary combining using mixed microstrip/waveguide media as a means to reduce losses. A saturated output power of 33.5 dBm was achieved using medium power amplifier chips (26 dBm) in order to test this approach in our development of high power modules.
  • Keywords
    Glass; MMICs; Microstrip; Multichip modules; Power amplifiers; Power generation; RF signals; Radio frequency; Testing; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 1999. 29th European
  • Conference_Location
    Munich, Germany
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.1999.338439
  • Filename
    4139468