【title】:Noise characteristics of GaAs HBT'sNoise characteristics of GaAs HBT's 【Authors】:Henderson, G.N.; Wu, D.-W. 【Subject】:gallium arsenide; III-V semiconductors; heterojunction bipolar transistors; semiconductor device noise; equivalent circuits; noise characteristics; GaAs HBT; minimum noise figure; associated gain; M/A-COM process; equivalent circuit model; bias dependence; area dependence; frequency dependence; 2 GHz; 2 mA; 13 dB; 1.4 dB; GaAs 【Page】:1221_1224 vol.3【CorporateSource】:Corp. R&D, Lowell, MA, USA【ConferenceDte】:17-21 June 1996 【ISSN】:0-7803-3246-6【Volume】:3【Issue】:【Part】:【pdfd】:IELDVD023:3773:11022:512156【File Size】:274K 【Part】:【PublishDate】:1996【AccessionNumber】:5352690【Publisher】:Microwave Symposium Digest, 1996., IEEE MTT-S International【TotalPage】:3 vol. (xlviii+xxii+ 【Abstract】:A complete characterization of the bias-, area-, and frequency-dependence of GaAs HBT noise characteristics is presented. It is shown that there is an optimum device area (emitter area) and bias condition for achieving a minimum noise figure, which for the M/A-COM process at 2 GHz occurs at an area of roughly 120 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ and a collector current of 2 mA yielding a minimum noise figure of 1.4 dB and an associated gain of 13 dB. The measured noise characteristics are validated by an extracted equivalent circuit model with associated noise sources.
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