Abstract

This paper presents a single-stage amplifier using substrate-integrated coaxial line (SICL) technology. It is implemented with a low-cost PCB technique at 23.35–24.05 GHz. The size of the proposed amplifier is 4.9λg×1.1λg where λg is the guided wavelength at the center frequency. In this circuit, a SICL-based bias-tee network is designed where the mounting pads are introduced for the integration of the components, such as transistor and capacitor. Next, with the help of de-embedding techniques, the input and output matching networks are designed in the SICL environment at 24 GHz. The proposed amplifier circuit exhibits 9.2 dB of peak gain with less than 1 dB of gain ripple and more than 10 dB of input/output return losses in the operating frequency band of 23.35–24.05 GHz. Moreover, the elementary blocks of the amplifier are presented in the circuit. Based on the appropriate modeling of the amplifier’s elementary blocks, the simulated and measured results are in good agreement.

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