ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF AN X-BAND ACTIVELY COMPENSATED IMPATT DIODE AMPLIFIER

被引:5
作者
BAINS, AS
AITCHISON, CS
机构
[1] Electronics Department, Chelsea College, Pulton Place, London, SW6 5PR, U.K.
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D O I
10.1109/TMTT.1979.1129552
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper shows how broad-banding of an IMPATT diode amplifier can be achieved using a circuit technique known as active reactance compensation. Theoretical analysis and experimental results both show that the gain-bandwidth products of an uncompensated IMPATT amplifier improves from G1/2B = k to G1/4B = 2k (where k is a constant) for the same amplifier actively conpensated. The measured 3 -dB bandwidth of 230 MHz for a 9.0 -GHz amplifier having a gain of 10 dB is improved to 780 MHz at the same gain. Copyright © 1979 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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