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A Ka-band 10 W Power Amplifier Module utilizing Pulse Timing Control  

Jang, Seok-Hyun (Dept. of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Kyeong-Hak (Dept. of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kwon, Tae-Min (Dept. of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Dong-Wook (Dept. of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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Abstract
In this paper, a Ka-band 10 W power amplifier module with seven power MMIC bare dies is designed and fabricated using MIC technology which combines multiple MMIC chips on a thin film substrate. Modified Wilkinson power dividers/combiners and CBFGCPW-Microstrip transitions for suppressing resonance and reducing connection loss are utilized for high-gain and high-power millimeter wave modules. A new TTL pulse timing control scheme is proposed to improve output power degradation due to large bypass capacitors in the gate bias circuit. Pulse-mode operation time is extended more than 200 nsec and output power increase of 0.62 W is achieved by applying the proposed scheme to the Ka-band 10 W power amplifier module operating in the pulsed condition of 10 kHz and $5\;{\mu}sec$. The implemented power amplifier module shows a power gain of 59.5 dB and an output power of 11.89 W.
Keywords
Power amplifier module; Ka-band; pulse timing control;
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