• DocumentCode
    2632945
  • Title

    Microwave Integrated Tunnel Diode Amplifiers for Broadband, High Performance Receivers

  • Author

    Okean, H.C. ; Meier, P.J.

  • fYear
    1971
  • fDate
    16-19 May 1971
  • Firstpage
    186
  • Lastpage
    187
  • Abstract
    A family of X-band thin-film microstrip tunnel diode amplifiers (TDA´s ) have been developed for use in broadband, high-performance receivers. These TDA´s exhibit half-octave bandwidth capability, with about 9-dB gain per stage over 8.0 to 11.5 GHz, 5.0 to 6.0 dB noise figure (using Ge tunnel diodes), and -14 to -17 dB output level at 1-dB gain compression (using GaAs tunnel diodes). This represents a considerable advance in performance with respect to previously reported MIC - TDA´s, shows a two-stage TDA, incluching an output isolator per stage.
  • Keywords
    Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; Diodes; Gallium arsenide; Isolators; Microstrip; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave integrated circuits; Noise figure; Transistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1971 IEEE GMTT International
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC, USA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GMTT.1971.1122959
  • Filename
    1122959