1. High Linearity and High Gain Performance of N-Polar GaN MIS-HEMT at 30 GHz.
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Shrestha, Pawana, Guidry, Matthew, Romanczyk, Brian, Hatui, Nirupam, Wurm, Christian, Krishna, Athith, Pasayat, Shubhra S., Karnaty, Rohit R., Keller, Stacia, Buckwalter, James F., and Mishra, Umesh K.
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INTERMODULATION distortion ,MODULATION-doped field-effect transistors ,INTERMODULATION ,GALLIUM nitride ,LOGIC circuits - Abstract
Though GaN HEMTs have primarily been used for power amplification, they are also well suited for receiver applications. In the front-end of receivers, non-linearities, in particular third-order intermodulation products lead to in-band signal distortion. The intermodulation distortion is primarily dominated by transconductance and its derivatives. In this paper, we report on N-polar GaN MIS-HEMTs able to simultaneously achieve high gain (12.7 dB) and excellent linearity performance (OIP3/P
DC of 15 dB) for low-power receiver application at 30 GHz. With a two-tone load-pull input-bias sweep, we demonstrate that the linearity of high performance HEMTs is sensitive to bias, and we present our measurement methodology to accommodate this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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