A 22W Ku band power amplifier based on internal-matched 6mm GaN HEMTs single chip

Abstract

A Ku-band power amplifier is successfully developed with an internal-matched single chip 6mm AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). LCL network together with microstrip circuits are used to directly match the impedance of the 6mm GaN HEMTs to 50Ohm without using power combiner. Under the pulsed condition (100μs, 10%), the developed GaN HEMTs power amplifier delivers a 22W saturated output power with 7.6dB linear gain and 26.8% maximum power-added efficiency (PAE) with a drain voltage of 32V and at the frequency of 13.7GHz. To our best knowledge, the achieved high performance power amplifier is the state-of-the-art result ever reported for internal-matched 6mm gate width single chip GaN-based hybrid microwave integrated power amplifier at Ku-band.