*Innovations in Ultra-WideBand Technologies*


**Component Model# Freq.**

SLKKa-30-6

R45 240130

RF Frontend Switch

RF Frontend LNA

RF Frontend LNA/VGA

*Cost of available mm-wave RF components.*

Switch General Microwave

Coupler KRYTAR

LNA Space Labs

WG/K Adapter MICROTEHC

**Table 5.**

**Table 6.**

**Figure 14.**

**35**

*Photo of 18–40GHz compact modules.*

**[GHz]**

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> 18–40 18–40

*Performance and cost of available connectorized mm-wave RF components.*

General Microwave

Filtronic

UMS

**NF / IL [dB]** **Gain dB]**

**Power out 1dBc [dBm]**

F9022 18–40 4 N/A N/A 40 2.30:1 2.1

184020 18–40 1.3 N/A 20 1.70:1 0.8

**Application Component Model# TYPE Unit Cost \$**

RF Frontend Limiter Diode GC4800 Diode 100 SFB Switch HMMC2027 HP MMIC 80 SFB Switch TLCSWY04 MMIC 80

18–40 6 30 17 N/A 1.80:1 2.2

0.75 1.25:1

**Coupling [dB]**

**Isolation [dB]**

F9022 Drop in 1800

LMA406 MMIC 24

CHA2097A MMIC 42

**VSWR max**

1.6:1

**Unit Cost [K\$]**

0.5

**Table 4.**

*Measured results of the wideband frontend modules.*

**Figure 12.** *Photo of HMC283 amplifier assembly.*

**Figure 13.** *Compact 18–40 GHz wideband frontend module.*

microwave components. **Table 6** lists the costs of commercial MMIC and MIC mmwave microwave components. There is a good agreement between computed and measured results. **Figure 14** is a photo of the compact mm-wave wideband, 18–40 GHz, frontend.
