A New 10 Watt 1.6 GHz Linear Power Amplifier with More Than 11 dB Gain

This paper presents the design, implementation and measurement results for a 1.4~1.8 GHz linear Power Amplifier, that centered at 1.6 GHz. Design and fabrication done with CGH40010-F device from Wolfspeed on FR4 PCB. Experimental results with excited CW test, show that the designed PA achieves 14 dB maximum gain, more than 42 dBm output power at 1-dB compression point and also 58% peak Efficiency. Designed power amplifier shows a large signal gain of more than 11 dB in the entire bandwidth.