{"title":"A millimeter-wave sequential power amplifier","authors":"Guansheng Lv, Wen-hua Chen, Zhenghe Feng","doi":"10.1109/GSMM.2017.7970307","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a millimeter-wave sequential power amplifier (SPA) at the frequency of 26GHz for the first time. The proposed SPA consists of a 3dB power divider, two GaAs power amplifier chips acting as the main and peaking amplifier respectively, and an 8dB output coupler. Measurement results show 6dB back-off efficiency of 18.5% and peak output power of 24.4dBm at 26GHz. The frequency response from 26GHz to 27GHz is also given, and 6dB back-off efficiency better than 18% is achieved from 26GHz to 27GHz.","PeriodicalId":414423,"journal":{"name":"2017 10th Global Symposium on Millimeter-Waves","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 10th Global Symposium on Millimeter-Waves","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GSMM.2017.7970307","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper, we present a millimeter-wave sequential power amplifier (SPA) at the frequency of 26GHz for the first time. The proposed SPA consists of a 3dB power divider, two GaAs power amplifier chips acting as the main and peaking amplifier respectively, and an 8dB output coupler. Measurement results show 6dB back-off efficiency of 18.5% and peak output power of 24.4dBm at 26GHz. The frequency response from 26GHz to 27GHz is also given, and 6dB back-off efficiency better than 18% is achieved from 26GHz to 27GHz.