The development of an active retrodirective antenna involving frequency conversion stages is presented. This retrodirective array of printed dipoles and regular commercial components is designed to operate at the GSM1900 band. Experimental measurements of monoestatic and biestatic responses are given, showing very good performance for a small retrodirective array.

This paper presents a new modeling approach accounting for the nonlinear description of low-frequency dispersive effects (due to thermal phenomena and traps) affecting electron devices. The theoretical formulation is quite general and includes as particular cases different models proposed in the literature. A large set of experimental results, oriented to microwave GaN power amplifier design, is provided to give an exhaustive validation under realistic device operation