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Demonstration of a high efficiency nonuniform monolithic gallium-nitride distributed amplifier

Lee et al., 2000

Document ID
11505316156150232456
Author
Lee S
Green B
Chu K
Webb K
Eastman L
Publication year
Publication venue
2000 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (Cat. No. 00CH37017)

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A monolithic gallium-nitride (GaN) dual-gate HEMT distributed amplifier has been designed which offers increased efficiency by removal of the drain line dummy load. This amplifier uses a dual-gate cascode gain cell to provide higher gain and power with a wideband …
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