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techniques to be 0.27 °C/W allowing for a maximum power dissipation of approximately

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Additionally, data was taken at 150 MHz demonstrating the gain and efficiency at the upper

limits of the device characterization (see Figure 5).

Figure 3.

Power Gain and efficiency vs. output power

Figure 4.

Maximum thermal resistance vs. case temperature

Figure 5.

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