Articles by L. Devlin, A. Dearn, G. Pearson and T. Richards, Plextek Ltd., Great Chesterford, UK

The consumers’ appetite for wireless data transfer is seemingly inexhaustible. This is pushing up the operating frequency of point-to-point links and leading to increased opportunities for microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) mm-wave amplifiers. The link between carrier frequency and data rate is illustrated in Figure 1 . Unfortunately, as...