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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2007.18.9.1064

A Highly Miniaturized Active 90 Power Combiner for Application to MMIC  

Park, Young-Bae (Department of Radio Science & Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
Yun, Young (Department of Radio Science & Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
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Abstract
This paper proposes the highly miniaturized active $90^{\circ} power combiner for application to MMIC. Conventional passive $90^{\circ} power combiners can't be integrated on MMIC because of their very larger size. Therefore, the highly miniaturized $90^{\circ} power combiners are required for a development of highly integrated MMIC. For this paper, the highly miniaturized active $90^{\circ} power combiner employing InGaP/GaAs HBT was fabricated on GaAs substrate for application to highly integrated MMIC. A size of fabricated active $90^{\circ} power combiner was $2.42{\times}1.05$ mm, which was 2.2 % of conventional passive $90^{\circ} power combiner. The fabricated active $90^{\circ} power combiner showed a gain characteristic about 10 dB and a good phase-difference coupling characteristic of $-92.6^{\circ} than conventional passive $90^{\circ} power combiner at 2.4 GHz. The highly miniaturized active $90^{\circ} power combiner exhibited good RF performances comparable to conventional passive $90^{\circ} power combiners. This work is the first report of an active $90^{\circ} power combiner.
Keywords
Active $90^{\circ}$ Power Combiner; GaAs MMIC; HBT; Coupler;
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