Qorvo QPA1724 Ku/K-band Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Amplifier (PA). It delivers twice the power of comparable PAs and delivers excellent broadband linear power, gain, and power-added efficiency (PAE) with very good RF performance. The product is housed in a 7.5mm × 6.0mm × 1.6mm QFN package and is fully DC and RF tested to ensure electrical compliance
The Qorvo QPA1724 is a high-power MIMIC amplifier targeting the 17.3GHz to 21.2GHz (Ku/K) satellite communication band with a saturated output power of 20W (approximately 43dBm), a small signal gain of 25dB, and a power-added efficiency of 27%. The device is fabricated on Qorvo's 0.15µm GaN-on-SiC process (QGaN15) and offers a fully matched to 50Ω DC grounded I/O port with on-chip DC blocking capacitors on both the input and output ports. The QPA1724 is ideal for radar and satellite communications (SATCOM) applications, including low Earth orbit constellations and broadband, multi-carrier high data throughput solutions.
