ENGIN-IC INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF182-111
ENGIN-IC INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,900
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF182-111
- Solicitation
- 18.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2019-02-19 → 2020-02-19
Description
ENGIN-IC proposes a GaN SSPA solution to address critical requirements for high output power and state-of-the-art efficiency for Space V-Band SSPAs. There are significant challenges with the design of GaN SSPA MMICs to achieve the required power and efficiency; ENGIN-IC will study multiple advanced GaN foundry processes combined with novel MMIC circuit design to achieve high efficiency goals of this SBIR. Integrating a low RF loss power combiner solution, our SSPA design has the potential to achieve 30 W RF output power with efficiency at more than 2X published performance. Consideration of linearity approaches for non-constant envelope QAM signals will be included in the study along with trades between linear operation, efficiency and power output.