High-gain microwave GaNHEMTs with source-terminated field-plates

被引:33
作者
Wu, YF [1 ]
Moore, M [1 ]
Wisleder, T [1 ]
Chavarkar, PM [1 ]
Mishra, UK [1 ]
Parikh, P [1 ]
机构
[1] Cree Santa Barbara Technol Ctr, Goleta, CA 93117 USA
来源
IEEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRON DEVICES MEETING 2004, TECHNICAL DIGEST | 2004年
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D O I
10.1109/IEDM.2004.1419386
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
GaN HEMTs with field-plates connected to the source terminal have been developed for high-gain, high-voltage operation at microwave frequencies. Due to the reduced feedback capacitance compared to the gate-terminated field-plate structures, improvement in large-signal gain of 5-7 dB is obtained. Superior performance including 21-dB associated gain, 20-W/mm output power and 60% power-added-efficiency at 4 GHz and 118V bias, is achieved simultaneously. This translates to an extremely high voltage-frequency-gain product approaching 10 kV-GHz.
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页码:1078 / 1079
页数:2
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