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This Letter presents a new combination of a broadband power amplifier (PA) and an output microstrip hairpin bandpass filter. The filter is designed based on the fifth-order Chebyshev low-pass prototype element values. Even–odd mode impedance analysis is used to calculate the filter parameters. Meanwhile, only the fundamental impedance matching is considered for this design. Therefore, a highly selective bandpass response is obtained to provide a spurious-free fundamental impedance matching. For verification, a broadband PA-filter component across 1.9–3.1 GHz (48%) is designed and fabricated. Measurements have shown a drain efficiency of 48–56.6% with 39.3–40.5 dBm of maximum output power.
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