DESIGN OF A TUNABLE SEQUENTIAL POWER AMPLIFIER

作者:Shao Jin*; Ren Han; Zhou Mi; Arigong Bayaner; Ding Jun; Fu Song; Kim Hyoungsoo; Zhang Hualiang
来源:Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2015, 57(12): 2899-2901.
DOI:10.1002/mop.29472

摘要

A tunable sequential power amplifier (SPA) is presented in this article. The proposed SPA, including a tunable coupler, a carrier amplifier, a peaking amplifier, and a combining coupler is fabricated on Isola I-TeraMTRF boards with 3.45 dielectric constant and 0.508 mm substrate thickness. A conventional SPA (nontunable) is also designed for reference and performance comparison. Measurement results show that the tunable SPA provides about 2 dB higher gain and 1 dB higher power output comparing with the reference design. The measurement results match well with the analysis.

  • 出版日期2015-12

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