Wideband distributed choke inductor for distributed power amplifiers
Date
2023-01-06
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Source Title
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters
Print ISSN
2771-9588
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Volume
33
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5
Pages
539 - 542
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en
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Abstract
A method to design a wideband, low-loss, and highcurrent choke inductor suitable for use in a distributed power amplifier (DPA) is presented. The choke inductor is composed of several paralleled low-current inductors with small parasitics placed in a distributed manner. High-frequency gain-limiting parasitic shunt capacitors of these inductors are absorbed by the series inductors already present between the transistor drain terminals of the distributed amplifier. The measurement results of a 2-18-GHz DPA designed using a distributed choke inductor with an equivalent dc resistance of 0.32 Omega are given.