Miniaturized on-chip power divider/combiner circuit on MMIC for application to C/X band maritime communication system

Author

Jang, Eui-Hoon ; Jeong, Jang-Hyeon ; Han, Sung-Jo ; Son, Ki-Jun ; Yun, Young

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio Commun. & Eng., Korea Maritime Univ., Busan, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

192

Abstract

In this work, a miniaturized on-chip 4-way divider/combiner employing multiple coupled transmission lines was proposed for application to C/X band maritime communication system. The size of 4-way divider/combiner is 1.21 mm², which is only 0.002 % of conventional Wilkinson type 4-way divider/combiner on PCB. The proposed 4-way divider/combiner showed good RF performances. Above results indicate that the proposed 4-way divider/combiner can be effectively used for SSPA (Solid State Power Amplifier) for application to C/X band maritime communication system.

Keywords

MMIC power amplifiers; marine communication; power combiners; power dividers; printed circuits; C band maritime communication system; MMIC; PCB; RF performance; SSPA; Wilkinson type 4-way divider-combiner; X band maritime communication system; miniaturized on-chip 4-way divider-combiner circuit; miniaturized on-chip power divider-combiner; multiple coupled transmission lines; solid state power amplifier; Divider/Combiner; MMIC(Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit); SSPA (Solid State Power Amplifier); marine communication system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ICT Convergence (ICTC), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4829-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4827-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTC.2012.6386814

Filename

6386814