GaN integrated circuit power amplifiers: Developments and prospects

R Nikandish - IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
GaN integrated circuit technologies have dramatically progressed over the recent years. The
prominent feature of GaN high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), unparalleled output …

Microwave and Millimeter-Wave GaN HEMTs: Impact of Epitaxial Structure on Short-Channel Effects, Electron Trap**, and Reliability

E Zanoni, C De Santi, Z Gao, M Buffolo… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Application of gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs) to millimeter-
wave power amplifiers requires gate length scaling below 150 nm: in order to control short …

A Broadband 110–170-GHz Stagger-Tuned Power Amplifier With 13.5-dBm Psat in 130-nm SiGe

A Karakuzulu, MH Eissa, D Kissinger… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a fully integrated three-stage single-ended D-band power amplifier (PA)
designed in 0.13-μm silicon-germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology. Several bandwidth …

A 190-210GHz Power Amplifier with 17.7-18.5 dBm Output Power and 6.9-8.5% PAE

ASH Ahmed, U Soylu, M Seo, M Urteaga… - 2021 IEEE MTT-S …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a high-efficiency G-band power amplifier in 250nm InP HBT technology. The
amplifier has four capacitively linearized common base stages. Four power cells are …

A 75–305-GHz Power Amplifier MMIC With 10–14.9-dBm Pout in a 35-nm InGaAs mHEMT Technology

F Thome, A Leuther - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demonstration of a 75-305-GHz power amplifier (PA) monolithic microwave integrated
circuit (MMIC) is presented in this letter. The PA is based on an eight-cell traveling-wave unit …

[HTML][HTML] Gigahertz and terahertz transistors for 5G, 6G, and beyond mobile communication systems

JJ Liou, M Ziegler, F Schwierz - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Mankind is currently living in the era of mobile communication. Mobile communication
encompasses almost all areas of our daily life and is heavily used in most sectors of …

A D-Band Power Amplifier with 15 dBm Psat in 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS Technology

İK Aksoyak, M Möck, M Kaynak… - 2022 IEEE 22nd Topical …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a two-stage D-band power amplifier (PA) realized in 0.13 μm silicon-
germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology. The amplifier employs the cascode topology at both …

A 220-GHz 110-mW Solid-State Power Combining Amplifier Based on Novel E-Plane Waveguide Magic-T

Y Ma, J Cao, M Zhan - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2023 - Springer
This paper designs a novel E-plane waveguide magic-T in 220 GHz and develops a high-
power solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) operating at 210–230 GHz in combination with …

Emerging GaN Technologies for Next-Generation Millimeter-Wave Applications

F Medjdoub, K Shinohara, F Thome… - IEEE Microwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced millimeter-wave (mm-wave) transceiver systems, including future mm-wave 5G
and 6G mobile networks, are of great interest to support high-data-rate communications (eg …

A New GaN HEMT Small-Signal Model Considering Source via Effects for 5G Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifier Design

J Kim - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application 5G millimeter-wave GaN HEMT power amplifier design. Abstract A new
gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobile transistor (HEMT) small-signal model is proposed …