DocumentCode
420074
Title
A single chip two-stage W-band grid amplifier
Author
Cheung, Chun-Tung ; DeLisio, Michael P. ; Rosenberg, James J. ; Tsai, Roger ; Kagiwada, Reynold ; Rutledge, David B.
Author_Institution
Wavestream Corp., West Covina, CA, USA
Volume
1
fYear
2004
fDate
6-11 June 2004
Firstpage
79
Abstract
The first monolithic grid amplifier using a cascade differential-pair amplifier unit cell has been designed and measured. The grid is packaged using reflection architecture with waveguide input and output. The measured gain at 82 GHz is 5.5 dB. The measured output power is 110 mW with 2.5 dB residual gain. The size of the amplifier module is 20 mm×10 mm×10 mm.
Keywords
MMIC amplifiers; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; waveguide components; 110 mW; 2.5 dB; 5.5 dB; 82 GHz; amplifier module; cascade differential-pair amplifier unit cell; monolithic grid amplifier; reflection architecture; two-stage W-band grid amplifier; waveguide input; waveguide output; Capacitors; Circuits; Feedback; Gain measurement; MMICs; Packaging; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Resistors; Space technology;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Symposium Digest, 2004 IEEE MTT-S International
ISSN
0149-645X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8331-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MWSYM.2004.1335805
Filename
1335805
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