Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2809-2814
Abstract
A highly stable V-band balanced power amplifier has been proposed based on
MMIC using the pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor (pHEMT). The amplifier
consists of two stages with device length of 8 × 25 µm and 2 × 25 µm gate widths. The design
kit of PP10 WIN Semiconductor Corp. has been used. The simulation results show power and
gain levels of 18 dBm and 12.5 dB, respectively, with a tolerance of ±0.8 dB over the broadband
range of 40–80 GHz. Microstrip Lange couplers are used as 3 dB quadrature power splitters and
combiners. The amplifier has an acceptable performance with low input and output VSWRs,
high stability, fairly flat gain and constant power over the whole bandwidth; and so it can be
a good candidate for broadband millimetre-wave front end transceivers systems, and also, as an
instrumentation amplifier in measurement systems.
Citation
Robin Sloan,
Sheheera Ismail,
and
Shokrollah Karimian,
"A V-band Balanced MMIC Power Amplifier," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2809-2814