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Hier finden Sie wissenschaftliche Publikationen aus den Fraunhofer-Instituten. A 5 W AlGaN/GaN power amplifier MMIC for 25-27 GHz downlink applications
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers -IEEE-:
11th German Microwave Conference, GeMiC 2018 : Riding the green waves, 12-14 March 2018, Freiburg, Germany
Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2018
ISBN: 978-3-9812668-8-7
ISBN: 978-1-5386-3740-1
pp.9-12 |
| German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) <11, 2018, Freiburg> |
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| English |
| Conference Paper |
| Fraunhofer IAF () |
| data downlink; gallium nitride; high power amplifier (HPA); K-band; LEO; MMICs |
Abstract
This work presents the design and analysis of a 5 W power amplifier (PA)MMIC operating between 25 and 27 GHz. The technology used is the 0.1 μm AlGaN/GaN HEMT process of Fraunhofer IAF. To benchmark its performance around 26GHz two preliminary designs are synthesized and analyzed. The measured results demonstrate for the final MMIC up to 5.2 W of output power associated with 32% of power added efficiency (PAE). A peak PAE of 35% was observed in continuous-wave(CW) operation at a drain supply voltage of 15V.