• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.943-948
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• 2018

In this paper, SSPA Module for X-band radar was designed and fabricated by using GaN MMIC. For the purpose of configuring the high power SSPA module, the drive steamers are composed of 2-layers of GaN MMIC with considering Gain Loss. In addition, the power divider and power combiner used a 4way approach by designing a 4-stage power amplifier. The power divider has a loss of -3.0dB or more, and the I/O has a loss of -0.2dB in the power combiner and the phase difference between the ports are good at $2^{\circ}$ on average. The fabricated SSPA module got the measurement results that satisfy a Gain 48dB, P(sat)=88.3W(49.46 dBm), PAE=30.3% or more efficiency in condition of frequency range 9~10GHz. The fabricated X-Band SSPA module can be applied in RF performance improvement for SSPA module whit improvement of power divider/combiner.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.129-135
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• 2022

In this paper, a 100 W SSPA in Ka-band was developed by combining 16 GaN MMICs which were 10 W amplifiers, respectively. The gate voltage of SSPA was controlled to minimize the effect of SSPA noise on the receiver during the receiving time. And the transmit power could be reduced about 20 dB to prevent the receiver from being saturated by a large signal from a nearby target. At 10%, 40% duty rato, the peak power and the power efficiency at center frequency were measured 52.4 dBm, 19.2%, and 51.6 dBm, 16.6% respectively.