• Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves
  • Vol. 29, Issue 3, 180 (2010)
ZHU Hong-Bing1、2、*, HONG Wei1, TIAN Ling1, TANG Hong-Jun1, CHEN Ji-Xin1, and HE Fan-Fan1
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    ZHU Hong-Bing, HONG Wei, TIAN Ling, TANG Hong-Jun, CHEN Ji-Xin, HE Fan-Fan. DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF Ka-BAND BROADBAND COMBINED POWER AMPLIFIER BASED ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2010, 29(3): 180 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    An eight-way power amplifier at Ka-band was designed, fabricated and measured. Measured results show that the maximum combined output power is 4.2W (continuous wave) at 26.5GHz. The power combining efficiency is higher than 60% over the interested frequency range (25.1~28.4GHz) and it can reach to 72.5% at 26.4GHz. The foundational cell of this amplifier is a double antipodal flexible substrate integrated waveguide (FSIW) including symmetrical dove-tail taper transition structure. A number of dove-tail tapers of these cells are stacked together and plugged along narrow wall into a couple of normal waveguides, a broadband power divider/combiner is then simply implemented with low insertion loss. The results demonstrate that this technique can be applied in broadband power combining amplifiers at millimeter-wave frequencies.
    ZHU Hong-Bing, HONG Wei, TIAN Ling, TANG Hong-Jun, CHEN Ji-Xin, HE Fan-Fan. DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF Ka-BAND BROADBAND COMBINED POWER AMPLIFIER BASED ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2010, 29(3): 180
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