{"title":"10W ultra-broadband power amplifier","authors":"A. Ezzeddine, Ho-Chung Huang","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2008.4632914","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We report the design and performance of an ultra-broadband power amplifier. It achieves 10 Watts output power with 21dB ± 1.5dB gain from 20 MHz to 3000 MHz. At lower frequencies from 20 to 1000 MHz the output power is 15 Watts with 22% efficiency. To achieve this performance, we employ a new design concept to control the device impedance and the power combiner impedance to be naturally 50 Ohms, such that no impedance matching is needed. Also, we developed a broadband microwave balun as a push-pull power combiner, which doubles as an impedance transformer. We believe the combination of output power, bandwidth and efficiency is the best reported to date.","PeriodicalId":273767,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"28","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2008.4632914","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We report the design and performance of an ultra-broadband power amplifier. It achieves 10 Watts output power with 21dB ± 1.5dB gain from 20 MHz to 3000 MHz. At lower frequencies from 20 to 1000 MHz the output power is 15 Watts with 22% efficiency. To achieve this performance, we employ a new design concept to control the device impedance and the power combiner impedance to be naturally 50 Ohms, such that no impedance matching is needed. Also, we developed a broadband microwave balun as a push-pull power combiner, which doubles as an impedance transformer. We believe the combination of output power, bandwidth and efficiency is the best reported to date.