Distributed Transformers for Broadband Monolithic Millimeter-Wave Integrated Power Amplifiers

• Main Author: Pahl, Kai-Philipp Walter (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2015
• Series: Karlsruher Forschungsberichte aus dem Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; power amplifier; Leistungsteiler; Impedanztransformator; power divider/combiner; millimeter-wave; Millimeterwellentechnik; Leistungsverstärker; Monolitische Integrierte Millimeterwellenschaltung (MMIC)Impedance transformer; Monolithic Millimeter-wave Integrated Circuit (MMIC)
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This work presents methods and techniques to optimize and implement distributed magnetic transformers for their application in matching networks of Monolithic Millimeter-wave Integrated Circuits (MMICs). It describes strategies for the efficiency and bandwidth optimization of the transformers and de...