{"title":"A highly-efficient 7-watt 16 GHz monolithic pseudomorphic HEMT amplifier","authors":"H. Tserng, P. Saunier","doi":"10.1109/MCS.1993.247466","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The achievement of a record CW output power of 7 W with 4.5-dB gain and 30.8% power-added efficiency with a monolithic, single-stage, 0.25 mu m*12-mm AlGaAs-InGaAs pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility-transistor (HEMT) amplifier at 16.3 GHz is discussed. At 5-W output, the power-added efficiency is 35% with 6-dB power gain. The chip size is 3 mm*3.5 mm.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":173655,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 1993 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium Digest of Papers","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE 1993 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium Digest of Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.1993.247466","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The achievement of a record CW output power of 7 W with 4.5-dB gain and 30.8% power-added efficiency with a monolithic, single-stage, 0.25 mu m*12-mm AlGaAs-InGaAs pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility-transistor (HEMT) amplifier at 16.3 GHz is discussed. At 5-W output, the power-added efficiency is 35% with 6-dB power gain. The chip size is 3 mm*3.5 mm.<>