{"title":"A High Efficiency, Ka-Band Pulsed Gallium Nitride Power Amplifier for Radar Applications","authors":"P. Blount, S. Huettner, Ben P. Cannon","doi":"10.1109/CSICS.2016.7751021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The design and performance of a three stage Ka-band power amplifier MMIC utilizing a 0.2 um GaN on SiC HEMT process technology is presented. Measured both pulsed and CW, the design demonstrates over 5 W of saturated power with an associated power added efficiency (PAE) of 41%. The die size is 2.62x1.62 mm.","PeriodicalId":183218,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSICS.2016.7751021","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 design and performance of a three stage Ka-band power amplifier MMIC utilizing a 0.2 um GaN on SiC HEMT process technology is presented. Measured both pulsed and CW, the design demonstrates over 5 W of saturated power with an associated power added efficiency (PAE) of 41%. The die size is 2.62x1.62 mm.