Patent attributes
At least one of wiring areas divided by substrate dividing slits includes a region on which none of the strip conductors is located, the region having a U-shape as viewed in plan and enclosing one of the strip conductors on three sides. The length of the enclosed strip conductor is set such that, at a harmonic of a fundamental frequency, the strip line, including the enclosed strip conductor, exhibits very low impedance and acts as a short circuit. The length of the enclosed strip conductor may be set substantially equal to 1/(4n) times the wavelength corresponding to a fundamental frequency, to short circuit the nth harmonic, where n is an integer. Both ends of the U-shaped region are preferably disposed on the side of the surface of the matching circuit substrate closest to a transistor.