Proceedings Article10.1109/EUMA.1987.333700
Mmic Research and Development
Masami Akaike
- 01 Oct 1987
- pp 87-94
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present recent research and development activities for GaAs MMICs in Japan, and present a survey of the MMIC development activities in the Japanese market.
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Abstract: The MMIC (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit) has great potential in constructing microwave equipment due to its light weight, small size, and high reliability. It is now stepping into practical application in various communications equipment. This paper presents recent research and development activities for GaAs MMICs in Japan.
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TL;DR: In this article, the Harmonic Reaction Amplifier (HRA) was proposed to achieve power-added efficiency of 75°A (85% drain efficiency) with a 3-W HRA using GaAs FETs in the 1.7 GHz band.
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- 01 Dec 1983
TL;DR: In this article, a 12 GHz low-noise amplifier, a 1 GHz IF amplifier, and an 11 GHz dielectric resonator oscillator (DRO) were developed for DBS home receiver applications by using GaAs monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology.
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MMIC 14-GHz VCO and Miller Frequency Divider for Low-Noise Local Oscillators
T. Ohira,T. Hiraoka,H. Kato +2 more
TL;DR: An MMIC voltage-controlled oscillator and an MMIC frequency divider are developed and applied to a 14-GHz low-noise local oscillator in this article, where the MMIC's were assembled into a 14GHz phase-locked loop in order to demonstrate that they will operate as key components of lownoise oscillators.
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A GaAs Double-Balanced Dual-Gate FET Mixer IC for UHF Receiver Front-End Applications
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TL;DR: In this article, a double-balanced dual-gate FET mixer was developed aiming at the application to a front-end circuit of the UHF receivers, which exhibited a 6 - 8 dB conversion gain without matching over a wide frequency range from 100 MHz to 800 MHz with the well suppressed RF/LO feedthough by more than 20 dB and third-order intermodulation product of -60 dB.
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