3.5GHz 10-Watt Power Amplifier for WiMax Application

Author

Cortese, P. ; Akku, M. ; Mayock, J. ; Pilcher, I. ; Sanham, J.

Author_Institution

Filtronic Compound Semicond. Ltd., Newton Aycliffe

fYear

2006

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

182

Lastpage

184

Abstract

This paper presents the design and performance of a 10-watt 3.5 GHz power amplifier MMIC implemented in a plastic air cavity QFN 8times6 mm² package. This amplifier product is targeting for WiMax application 3.5 GHz band. The package is mounted onto a RO4003 test board, containing only decoupling capacitors in bias networks. The packaged amplifier MMIC demonstrates gain, as high as 17 dB at 3.5 GHz, under very stable conditions, and less than 2.5% error vector magnitude (EVM) at 30 dBm average output power for OFDM signal with PAR=10 dB. The EVM and efficiency (PAE) remain below 2.5% and over 10%, respectively, in a frequency range of 3.4-3.6 GHz

Keywords

MMIC power amplifiers; OFDM modulation; WiMax; 10 W; 3.5 GHz; EVM; MMIC power amplifier; OFDM signal; QFN package; RO4003 test board; WiMax application; decoupling capacitor; error vector magnitude; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; Capacitors; Gallium arsenide; High power amplifiers; Linearity; MMICs; Packaging; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Testing; WiMAX; Class AB; GaAs FET; Packaging; Power amplifiers; RCE; Test board;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology, 2006. The 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-5-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECWT.2006.280465

Filename

4057468