Methods and steps required for the development of a RF Power Amplifier

Amplifiers play a vital role in the development of high performance and low-cost solutions for front end of the RF and microwave systems. Early RF µwave amplifiers were the exclusive province of vacuum tube devices such as triodes, tetrodes, Klystrons,TWT amplifiers and magnetrons but today amplification is dominated by solid state amplifiers except for application at high output powers i.e. More than 100W for microwave and more than 1KW for RF. The usefulness and methods to design a SSPA are discussed. The functionality of proposed design of solid state power amplifier will be verified for parameters like Bandwidth, Gain, Output power and high efficiency. [1] Index TermDC Biasing, Impedance matching, L section network, MOSFET, Solid State Power Amplifier