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

simulation results.