Quasi Millimiter-Wave 3-Stage Power Amplifier with Tunable Integrated Antenna for Space Applications
Matos, D.
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Correia, R.
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Carvalho, N.B.C.
Quasi Millimiter-Wave 3-Stage Power Amplifier with Tunable Integrated Antenna for Space Applications, Proc Asia Pacific Microwave Conf. - APMC, Singapore, Singapore, Vol. , pp. 1 - 3, December, 2019.
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Abstract
This article presents the design procedure simulated
results of the integration of a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) Power Amplifier (PA) with a tunable antenna in 0:25um Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology. The three-stage millimeter wave (MMW) PA design is focused on low-loss wideband networks design. An average output power of 25 dBm, average gain of 16 dB and a mean PAE of 25%, was achieved.
Moreover, the antenna design was based on a unable patch antenna with a maximum gain of almost 2 dBi and an efficiency of 45 % at 26.5 GHz.