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SEM photograph of the CPW.
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Yinghui Zhong, Yuming Zhang, Yimen Zhang, Yuxiong Cao, Hongfei Yao, Xiantai Wang, Hongliang Lü, Xinyu Liu, Zhi Jin. A W-band two-stage cascode amplifier with gain of 25.7 dB[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2013, 34(12): 125003. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/12/125003
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Y H Zhong, Y M Zhang, Y M Zhang, Y X Cao, H F Yao, X T Wang, H Lü, X Y Liu, Z Jin. A W-band two-stage cascode amplifier with gain of 25.7 dB[J]. J. Semicond., 2013, 34(12): 125003. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/12/125003.
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A W-band two-stage cascode amplifier with gain of 25.7 dB
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/12/125003
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Abstract
A W-band two-stage amplifier MMIC has been developed using a fully passivated 2×20 μm gate-width and 0.15 μm gate-length InP-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology. The two-stage amplifier has been realized in combination with a coplanar waveguide technique and cascode topology, thus leading to a compact chip-size of 1.85×0.932 mm2 and an excellent small-signal gain of 25.7 dB at 106 GHz. Additionally, an inter-digital coupling capacitor blocks low-frequency signal, thereby enhancing the stability of the amplifier. The successful design of the two-stage amplifier MMIC indicates that InP HEMT technology has a great potential for W-band applications.-
Keywords:
- cascode,
- coplanar waveguide,
- HEMT,
- gate-length
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