Integrated Combined Amplifiers for Planar Circuits

Author

Eccleston, Kimberley W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch

fYear

2008

fDate

14-15 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

29

Abstract

Integrating amplification with power combining allows components to be eliminated thereby reducing system size. Recently there has been much interest in reducing size of planar circuit components that use transmission lines, and therefore, combining strategies that employ transmission elements can leverage on these miniaturization techniques to further reduce system size. In this paper we explore the dual-fed distributed power amplifier and a variant that uses periodic loops of transmission lines.

Keywords

distributed amplifiers; microwave power amplifiers; transmission lines; dual-fed distributed power amplifier; miniaturization; periodic loops; planar circuits; transmission elements; transmission lines; Conferences; Distributed amplifiers; Distributed parameter circuits; FETs; Microwave Theory and Techniques Society; Planar transmission lines; Power amplifiers; Power dividers; Power generation; Power transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Art of Miniaturizing RF and Microwave Passive Components, 2008. IMWS 2008. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2876-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2877-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS.2008.4782253

Filename

4782253