A fully integrated Class-J GaN MMIC power amplifier for 5-GHz WLAN 802.11ax application

• Main Authors: Liu, Bei, Mao, Mengda, Boon, Chirn Chye, Choi, Pilsoon, Khanna, Devrishi, Fitzgerald, Eugene A.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: 802.11ax; Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Monolithic Microwave Circuit
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104486; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50015
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This letter presents a fully integrated Class-J GaN monolithic microwave circuit power amplifier (PA), which is fabricated in Woolfspeed 0.25-μm GaN-on-SiC technology. This PA is the first published design for the emerging IEEE 802.11ax application in the literature. When tested with 80-MHz 256-quad...