High-power V-band AlInAs/GaInAs on InP HEMTs

M. Matloubian, April S. Brown, L.D. Nguyen, M.A. Melendes, L.E. Larson, M.J. Delancey, J. Pence, R. A. W. Rhodes, M. A. Thompson, J. A. Henige

IEEE Electron Device Letters · 1993 · 33 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

The DC and RF performance of delta -doped channel AlInAs/GaInAs on InP power high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) are reported. A 450- mu m-wide device with a gate-length of 0.22 mu m has achieved an output power of 150 mW (at the 1-dB gain compression point) with power-added efficiency of 20% at 57 GHz. The device has a saturated output power of 200 mW with power-added efficiency of 17%. This is the highest output power measured from a single InP-based HEMT at this frequency, and demonstrates the feasibility of these HEMTs for high-power applications in addition to low-noise applications at V-band.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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