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Design and Temperature Reliability Testing for A 0.6–2.14GHz Broadband Power Amplifier

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This article presents a broadband power amplifier (PA) with a compact structure and investigates its temperature reliability. Design and temperature reliability test procedures are elaborated. The PA delivers good broadband characteristics (0.6–2.14GHz) with the maximum PAE of 46.4 % and saturated output power of more than 35.1dBm at the whole operating frequency band. A series of experiments including those on DC characteristic, S-parameter and large signal characteristic have been conducted to investigate the temperature effects for the broadband performance and reliability of the designed PA.

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This work was supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (Contract No. 2012ZX03004008) and the International science and technology cooperation projects of Qinghai under Grant No. 2014-HZ-821.

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Lin, Q., Cheng, QF., Gu, Jj. et al. Design and Temperature Reliability Testing for A 0.6–2.14GHz Broadband Power Amplifier. J Electron Test 32, 235–240 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10836-016-5571-7

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