Concepedia

High efficiency monolithic gallium nitride distributed amplifier

B.M. Green, Sungjae Lee, K. Chu, Kevin J. Webb, L.F. Eastman

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters · 2000 · 37 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

The first gallium-nitride monolithic distributed amplifier is demonstrated. A nonuniform design allows the removal of the drain line dummy load with a concomitant increase in efficiency, An optimized nonuniform design shows a 10% increase in efficiency over an optimized uniform design having the dummy termination.

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