BROWSE
Detail
Journal Article
A Decade-Bandwidth Distributed Power Amplifier MMIC Using 0.25 μm GaN HEMT Technology
- Authors
- Dong-Hwan Shin, In-Bok Yom, Dong-Wook Kim
- Issue Date
- 2017-10
- Citation
- Journal of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science, v.17, no.4, pp.178-180
- ISSN
- 2234-8409
- Publisher
- 한국전자파학회 (KIEES)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- This study presents a 2-20 GHz monolithic distributed power amplifier (DPA) using a 0.25 μm AlGaN/GaN on SiC high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology. The gate width of the HEMT was selected after considering the input capacitance of the unit cell that guarantees decade bandwidth. To achieve high output power using small transistors, a 12-stage DPA was designed with a nonuniform drain line impedance to provide optimal output power matching. The maximum operating frequency of the proposed DPA is above 20 GHz, which is higher than those of other DPAs manufactured with the same gate-length process. The measured output power and power-added efficiency of the DPA monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) are 35.3-38.6 dBm and 11.4%-31%, respectively, for 2-20 GHz.
- KSP Keywords
- GaN HEMT technology, GaN on SiC, Gate Width, High-electron mobility transistor(HEMT), Line impedance, Measured output, Microwave Integrated Circuits(MICs), Microwave monolithic integrated circuits(MMIC), Power added efficiency(PAE), Power amplifier MMIC, Unit cell
This work is distributed under the term of Creative Commons License (CCL)
(CC BY NC)
(CC BY NC)
