7kW GaN W-band transmitter

Abstract

Recent advances in high power millimeter wave (mmW) Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology has enabled the development of a high power solid state W-band transmitter with an unprecedented 7kW Continuous Wave (CW) output power. The transmitter coherently sums a total of 8,192 1W+ GaN Power Amplifier (PA) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) using spatial combining. This accomplishment represents a two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in W-band solid state power generation over previously published results.