{"title":"A High Efficiency High Power Density Harmonic-Tuned Ka Band Stacked-FET GaAs Power Amplifier","authors":"Duy P. Nguyen, T. Pham, B. Pham, A. Pham","doi":"10.1109/CSICS.2016.7751020","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A stacked-FET power amplifier (PA) with harmonic- tuned output matching network is demonstrated using a 0.15-μm Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology. The fabricated PA exhibits 28.5 dBm output power, 12 dB gain and 38.4% power added efficiency (PAE). To the best of our knowledge, this is for the first time stacked-FET technique is used in combining with harmonic-tuned output network to achieve high PAE and high power density simultaneously in a GaAs PA.","PeriodicalId":183218,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSICS.2016.7751020","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A stacked-FET power amplifier (PA) with harmonic- tuned output matching network is demonstrated using a 0.15-μm Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology. The fabricated PA exhibits 28.5 dBm output power, 12 dB gain and 38.4% power added efficiency (PAE). To the best of our knowledge, this is for the first time stacked-FET technique is used in combining with harmonic-tuned output network to achieve high PAE and high power density simultaneously in a GaAs PA.