Research Article
Compact and Broadband-Balanced Amplifier for a Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Using Lumped Elements Only
Table 2
Comparison between the proposed BA and previous works.
| References | Frequency range (GHz) | Relative bandwidth (%) | Return loss (dB) | Gain (dB) | Size () |
| [11] | 1.2–3.5 | 97.9 | >10 | — | >0.88 | [24] | 2.4–2.5 | 4.1 | >15 | >16 | 5.38 | [25] | 8–11.5 | 35.9 | >10 | >16 | >7.18 | [26] | 8–10 | 22.2 | >10 | 12.5–14.2 | 5.27 | [27] | 1.5–2.1 | 33.3 | >10 | >7 | 12.95 | PCB BA in [28] | 1 | — | 21 | 19.5 | 0.11 | This work | 1.19–2.96 | 85.3 | >10 | 8.44–11.84 | 0.044 |
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