SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ka-Band Efficient, Linear Power Amplifiers for SATCOM Ground Terminals
Award amount
$1,031,029Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ENGIN-IC INC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-07-28
- Contract end date
- 2019-04-30
- UEI
- J4LWTAZLK4Q9
- Solicitation number
- 2015.1
- Topic code
- AF151-150
Research abstract
The Phase II program objective is to design, fabricate and test a linear 70 Watt power amplifier that is consistent with QPSK and 12/4 QAM and has 35% power added efficiency across the 30 to 31 GHz band.ENGIN-IC will develop a two stage power amplifier MMIC that has an output power near 15 W and has > 45% power added efficiency.ENGIN-IC will integrate these MMICs through planar In / Outphasing combining networks that are aligned to increase the SSPA efficiency with up to 6 dB backoff.A modular building block will consist of four MMIC amplifiers which are combined with the inphasing and outphasing combining networks.Two of these building blocks will then be waveguide combined to allow for linear operation at 70W transmit power and achieving the noted efficiency levels.The product will be integrated into a small form factor of less than 8 cubic inches.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Ultra-wideband High Efficiency Power Amplifier for Multifunction RF Systems
- High Efficiency, Low Size and Weight and Power (SWAP) Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) for Sensor Applications
- Ultra-Wideband High Efficiency Power Amplifier for Multifunction RF Systems
- V-band Transmit Phased Array for Satellite Communication Downlinks
- Thermal Management and Risk Reduction of Wafer Scale V-band Transmit Arrays
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- A Linearized Ka-Band SSPA System with Integrated Upconverter using Spatial Power Combining
- Ka-Band Efficient, Linear Power Amplifiers for SATCOM Ground Terminals
- Ka-Band Efficient, Linear Power Amplifiers for SATCOM Ground Terminals
- Ka-Band Efficient, Linear Power Amplifiers for SATCOM Ground Terminals
- A Linearized Ka-Band SSPA System with Integrated Upconverter using Spatial Power Combining
Research funding history
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2015–2024). Reported award amounts total $7,853,675. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense