{"title":"An Over 29.5-W, 7–13-GHz Wideband GaN Power Amplifier With High Harmonic Suppression","authors":"Jialin Luo;Jing Wan;Baixi Du;Ruiying Gao;Xuming Sun;Xiaojie Zhang;Xiaoxin Liang","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3406708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3406708","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a high-power amplifier (HPA) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) based on the 0.25-\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000m gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) process. An elliptic filter output matching network (MN) and a matching circuit design method based on the combination of port impedance model (PIM) and load pull are proposed, which can achieve high harmonics suppression across 7–13 GHz using a reactive matching (RM) technique. The three-stage GaN PA achieves a minimum output power of 44.7 dBm and a peak output power of 46.3 dBm at 7.5 GHz. The power-added efficiency (PAE) is more than 34.4%, with a peak PAE of 39.0% at 9.5 GHz. The second harmonic suppression (HS2) reaches more than 22.5 dBc. The PA chip occupies an area of \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$4.8times 3.0$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 mm2.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141964828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters Information for Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3399904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3399904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10551681","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141286628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexible Dual-Band Dielectric Waveguide Filter Based on Degenerate Modes","authors":"Zhe Wang;Yongle Wu;Zuoyu Xu;Yuan Yao;Weimin Wang","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3405536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3405536","url":null,"abstract":"In this design, a novel flexible dual-band dielectric waveguide filter (DWF) based on degenerate modes is presented. The TM111 mode and TE111 mode are separated by cutting corners, and they form two distinct passbands. The TE101 mode interacts with the two transmission modes (TMs) as the nonresonating mode. The topology of the filter contains two singlets to generate two transmission zeros (TZs), which improves the isolation between the bands and out-of-band suppression performance. By introducing blind holes in the resonator to modify the electric field distribution of the TMs, independent control of the resonant frequencies of the two TMs is achieved. The center frequencies of the two passbands are regulated from 3.66 to 4.02 GHz and 4.17 to 4.35 GHz, respectively. For demonstration, a dual-band DWF is fabricated and measured, with experimental results exhibiting good filtering characteristics.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141583642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum to “23.8-GHz Acoustic Filter in Periodically Poled Piezoelectric Film Lithium Niobate With 1.52-dB IL and 19.4% FBW”","authors":"Roberto Gómez-García","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3396929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3396929","url":null,"abstract":"Due to a production error, the above letter \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000 corresponding to one of the 40 selected papers for publication in the IEEE MicROWAVE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS Special Issue on the International Microwave Symposium 2024 was included in the April 2024 issue.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10551669","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141286582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 5-GHz Quadrature Switched-Capacitor Power Amplifier With IQ-Cell-Sharing and Serial Transformer Combiner in 28-nm CMOS","authors":"Diyang Zheng;Yicheng Li;Hang Chen;Yun Yin;Hongtao Xu","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3405498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3405498","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a 5-GHz quadrature digital power amplifier (DPA) with serial transformer power combiner and in-phase and quadrature (IQ)-cell-sharing, which overcomes the 3-dB power loss in the conventional quadrature counterpart. A four-way differential serial-combining transformer (SCT) power combiner is adopted for output power close to the watt level. Implemented in 28-nm CMOS technology, the DPA is powered by 1.1-/2.2-V power supplies and only occupies \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$0.98times 0.58$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 mm2 core area. It achieves 28.6-dBm peak output power with power added efficiency (PAE) of 24.4% at 5 GHz. With 20-MHz 64-quadraticamplitude modulation (QAM) 802.11ac signal, the DPA achieves Pavg of 18.6 dBm and average PAE of 10.7% with −25.0 dB error vector magnitude (EVM) at 5 GHz with digital predistortion (DPD).","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141583469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Open Access Publishing","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3402469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3402469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10551668","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141286660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters Information for Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3399900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3399900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10551660","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141286693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quad-Band Linear-to-Circular Polarization Reflecting Surface With Dual Orthogonal Rotation for C/X-Band Uplink/Downlink SatCom Applications","authors":"Soumik Dey;Sukomal Dey","doi":"10.1109/LMWT.2024.3406925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWT.2024.3406925","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite communication (SatCom) demands a dual-band circularly polarized (CP) antenna with dual-orthogonal rotation. This letter proposes a new frequency selective reflecting surface that transforms a linearly polarized (LP) wave to a CP wave at four discrete frequencies in the C- and X-bands. The dual-CP rotation of the reflected signal at each pair of frequencies can be utilized as uplink/downlink for C- and X-bands SatCom. Four LP-to-CP conversion frequencies are 6.8 and 7.44 GHz in the C-band and 9.92 and 11.12 GHz in the X-band. A prototype of the quad-band polarization converter was fabricated, with measured responses closely matching simulated results.","PeriodicalId":73297,"journal":{"name":"IEEE microwave and wireless technology letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141964811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}