• DocumentCode
    2227698
  • Title

    Ku-band 15 W single-chip HJFET power amplifier

  • Author

    Matsunaga, K. ; Okamoto, Y. ; Miura, I. ; Kuzuhara, Masaaki

  • Author_Institution
    Kansai Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Shiga, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    17-21 June 1996
  • Firstpage
    697
  • Abstract
    This paper describes record power performance of Ku-band power amplifiers fabricated with a 0.45 /spl mu/m gate GaAs-based heterojunction FET (HJFET). The developed HJFET amplifier with 25.2 mm gate periphery delivered a 41.98 dBm (15.8 W) output power with 36% power-added efficiency (PAE) and 9.6 dB linear gain at 12 GHz. This is the highest PAE, gain and output power combination achieved from a single-chip FET power amplifier at Ku-band.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; JFET integrated circuits; MMIC power amplifiers; field effect MMIC; field effect analogue integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; microwave power amplifiers; 0.45 micron; 12 GHz; 15 to 15.8 W; 36 percent; GaAs; GaAs-based heterojunction FET; HJFET power amplifier; Ku-band; MMIC; SHF; single-chip power amplifier; FETs; Gain; High power amplifiers; Laboratories; National electric code; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Substrates; Thermal resistance; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1996., IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3246-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1996.511035
  • Filename
    511035