A broadband reconfigurable load modulated balanced amplifier (LMBA)

Shepphard, Daniel J., Powell, Jeffrey and Cripps, Steve C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2258-951X 2017. A broadband reconfigurable load modulated balanced amplifier (LMBA). Presented at: IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Honololu, HI, USA, 4-9 June 2017. 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). IEEE, pp. 943-945. 10.1109/MWSYM.2017.8058743

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Abstract

The Load Modulated Balanced Amplifier (LMBA) uses a control signal (CSP), injected to the normally terminated port at the output coupler of a balanced amplifier (BA), to modulate the BA transistor's impedance. The hybrid circuit demonstrator described here uses metal-backed multilayer organic substrate and GaN discrete devices. Maximum output power levels above 39.5 dBm are achieved at around P3dB. DE above 60% is seen between 4.5 and 7.5 GHz for power back-off to 7 dB with a fixed CSP of 1 W, and the bias between 18 to 28 V.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Engineering
Publisher:	IEEE
ISBN:	978-1-5090-6360-4
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2023 10:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/112032

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