Novel integrated antenna for LINC power amplifiers

@inproceedings{citeulike:2776109, abstract = {Both theoretical and experimental results of a novel integrated antenna for LINC power amplifiers are presented. The integrated antenna can also serve as a power combiner, ensuring maximum power efficiency. This will be a significant advance on current LINC and CALLIUM systems, where the circuit level power combiner losses degrade overall efficiency. The concept is explained and one example antenna at 1.8 GHz is designed, fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the antenna achieves good impedance matching characteristics under both the common-mode and the differential-mode excitations. Radiation patterns are also presented.}, author = {Gao, S. C. and Gardner, P. }, booktitle = {Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE}, citeulike-article-id = {2776109}, doi = {10.1109/APS.2002.1016133}, journal = {Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE}, keywords = {active, amplifier, antenna, integrated, power}, pages = {508--511 vol.2}, posted-at = {2008-05-09 16:19:29}, priority = {2}, title = {Novel integrated antenna for LINC power amplifiers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APS.2002.1016133}, volume = {2}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2776109 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2776109 TI - Novel integrated antenna for LINC power amplifiers T2 - Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE JF - Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE VL - 2 SP - 508 EP - 511 vol.2 N2 - Both theoretical and experimental results of a novel integrated antenna for LINC power amplifiers are presented. The integrated antenna can also serve as a power combiner, ensuring maximum power efficiency. This will be a significant advance on current LINC and CALLIUM systems, where the circuit level power combiner losses degrade overall efficiency. The concept is explained and one example antenna at 1.8 GHz is designed, fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the antenna achieves good impedance matching characteristics under both the common-mode and the differential-mode excitations. Radiation patterns are also presented. KW - active KW - amplifier KW - antenna KW - integrated KW - power AU - Gao, SC AU - Gardner, P PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APS.2002.1016133 ER -