Coplanar waveguide-mounted flip chip

Details Coplanar waveguide-mounted flip chip Coplanar waveguide-mounted flip chip

1995-06-07

1996-06-18

Gensler, Paul

Wave transmission lines and networks

Plural channel systems

Having branched circuits

333247, 330286, 330295, H01P 512

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active

055282032

ABSTRACT:
A radio-frequency power amplifier includes a multiple-FET chip that is flip mounted on a connection region of a substrate. An input impedance-matching network is also mounted on the substrate. The network includes a coplanar waveguide having an elongate waveguide signal conductor for each gate terminal on the FET chip with a distal end spaced from the connection region and a proximal end in the connection region. The distal ends are connected to a single base input conductor. The proximal ends are flip mounted to respective ones of gate terminals of the FET chip. A capacitor couples each of the input signal conductor distal ends to an adjacent ground conductor. The signal conductors and capacitors provide a selected impedance at a selected frequency. The capacitors may be on a separate chip flip mounted to the waveguide signal and ground conductors, and may be formed as coplanar waveguides with open-ended signal conductors. An output coplanar waveguide includes, for each drain terminal, an output signal conductor having an end in the connection region that is electrically connected to the flip mounted FET chip. This waveguide also has a length selected to provide desired impedance matching and may also have other means of impedance matching.

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