Wideband Monolithic Microwave Amplifier Study.

Abstract

This report discusses distributed amplifier theory in the context of the microwave monolithic GaAs circuit. It is shown that GaAs FET devices dictate that both the input and output transmission lines become lossy which places fundamental limitations on the distributed amplifier concept and results in different constraints than are found in lossless distributed amplifier design. First order theory indicates that gain asymptotically approaches an upper bound and little benefit results from increasing the number of devices beyond certain limits. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA112976

Entities

People

  • J. B. Beyer
  • J. E. Nordman
  • R. C. Becker

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bandwidth
  • Capacitance
  • Distributed Amplifiers
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • Frequency
  • Gain
  • Impedance
  • Losses
  • Microwave Amplifiers
  • Phase Velocity
  • Semiconductors
  • Transistor Amplifiers
  • Transmission Lines
  • Transmission Loss

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  • Electronics Engineering
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