Design and Analysis of a 34 dBm Ka-Band GaN High Power Amplifier MMIC
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This paper presents the design and analysis issues related to the use of recent GaN technologies for realizing high power millimeter wave MMICs. Two GaN Ka-band amplifier MMICs have been designed, fabricated and characterized. The small-signal and power measurement results are presented for both amplifiers, with an excellent output power of 34.1 dBm at 27 GHz for the 2-stage power amplifier MMIC. Both MMICs have a very good yield and performance, even more so in regard of the current state-of-the-art. The observed deviations between the original simulation and measurements have been explained by extensive use of 3D EM simulations of the coplanar passive structures. © 2006 EuMA.
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TNO Identifier
219155
Publisher
EuMA
Source title
Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2006, 10-13 September 2006, Manchester, UK
Place of publication
Louvain-la-Neuve
Pages
75-78