Fig. 1. Equivalent circuit of RH_TL and LH_TL.
Fig. 3. Matching with the series-shunt stub tuning method.
Fig. 4. Unit cell of CRLH.
Fig. 5. Schematic of the designed power amplifier based on CRLH.
Fig. 7. PAE for variance of the series CR.
Fig. 8. PAE and Pout contour for variance of the series CR and LR1 at the 0.7GHz
Fig. 9. PAE and Pout contour for variance of the series CR and LR1 at the 1.5GHz.
Fig. 10. PAE and Pout over the input power.
Fig. 11. Small signal result of the designed PA.
Fig. 2. Equivalent circuit of CRLH TL and its frequency response.
Fig. 6. Pout for variance of the series CR.
Table. 1. Sensitivity of elements in OMN composed of CRLH over the distribution of ±20% around the desired values.
Table. 2. Specification of the designed circuit.
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