High-speed GaAs operational amplifier

An operational amplifier has been designed and fabricated using GaAs MESFETs. This amplifier is a general-purpose monolithic GaAs op amp designed as as a stand-alone component. The amplifier has a differential input, an open-loop gain in excess of 60 dB, and is internally compensated. The high open-loop gain (60 dB at 100 kHz) was achieved by using gain stages with positive feedback. The op amp incorporates a current-mirror level-shifting stage which allows the op amp to operate over a wide power-supply range (/spl plusmn/5-9 V). Previous designs have diodes to achieve level shifting, a practice that precludes operation over a wide supply range. This op amp is a true analog to its silicon counterparts, but it has a higher gain-bandwidth product.     

Artificial-line-division distributed ICs with 0.1-μm-gate-lengthGaAs MESFET and three-dimensional transmission lines

0.1-μm-gate-length GaAs MESFET distributed baseband integrated circuits (ICs) that utilize an artificial-line-division technique and three-dimensional transmission lines are described. The technique reduces return loss of the distributed circuits at high frequencies, and four-layer transmission-line structure reduces parasitic impedance caused by the IC pattern shape and is suitable for the flip-chip bonding module format. A gate-line-division distributed baseband amplifier IC achieved input return loss of less than -13 dB and gain of 11.7 dB in the 0-56 GHz band. A source-line-division distributed level-shift IC achieved output return loss of less than -9.6 dB at high frequencies and insertion loss of 2.7 dB in the 0-79 GHz band. Both results better the performance of all reported GaAs MESFET distributed ICs     

Performance of GaAs MESFET Mixers at X Band

A theoretical analysis and experimental verification of the signal properties of the GaAs MESFET mixer are presented. Experimental techniques for evaluating some of the mixer parameters are described. Experiments performed on GaAs MESFET mixers at X band show that good noise performance and large dynamic range can be achieved with conversion gain. A conversion gain over 6 dB is measured at 7.8 GHz. Noise figures as low as 7.4 dB and output third-order intermodulation intercepts of +18 dBm have heen obtained at 8 GHz with a balanced MESFET mixer.     

An ultrahigh-speed GaAs MESFET operational amplifier

A wide-bandwidth GaAs MESFET operational amplifier is reported, with a 65-dB DC gain and a 20-GHz gain-bandwidth product at 500 MHz. The circuit uses a variety of local feedback techniques to enhance the overall gain. The use of an undoped GaAs buffer, grown at a relatively low temperature (≈300°C), eliminates backgating and light sensitivity. The circuit was fabricated in an 80-GHz f_T MESFET process, with 0.2-μm electron-beam defined gates. The high levels of 1/f noise, MESFET frequency-dependent output conductance, and large offset voltage standard deviation limit the application of the circuit to moderate precision applications     

A GaAs Power MESFET Operating at 3.3V Drain Voltage for Digital Hand-Held Phone

A GaAs power metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) operating at a voltage as low as 3.3V has been developed with the best performance for digital hand-held phone. The device has been fabricated on an epitaxial layer with a low-high doped structure grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The MESFET, fabricated using 0.8 μm design rule, showed a maximum drain current density of 330 mA/mm at V_gs = 0.5V and a gate-to-drain breakdown voltage of 28 V. The MESFET tested at a 3.3 V drain bias and a 900 MHz operation frequency displayed an output power of 32.5-dBm and a power added efficiency of 68%. The associate power gain at 20 dBm input power and the linear gain were 12.5dB and 16.5dB, respectively. Two tone testing measured at 900.00MHz and 900.03MHz showed that a third-order intercept point is 49.5 dBm. The power MESFET developed in this work is expected to be useful as a power amplifying device for digital hand-held phone because the high linear gain can deliver a high power added efficiency in the linear operation region of output power and the high third-order intercept point can reduce the third-order intermodulation.     

A 100-MHz 100-dB operational amplifier with multipath nested Millercompensation structure

A 100-MHz bipolar operational amplifier has a gain of 100 dB. The op amp owes its high unity-gain bandwidth and high gain to an all-n-p-n signal path and multipath nested Miller compensation (MNMC). The phase margin with a 100-pF load is 40° at 100 MHz and the amplifier settles in 60 ns to 0.1% on a 1-V step. For comparison, a similar op amp without the multipath technique has been realized. The unity-gain bandwidth of this nested Miller compensation (NMC) op amp is 60 MHz and the settling time is 70 ns. Theory and measurements confirm that the multipath technique almost doubles the bandwidth of nested Miller compensated amplifiers     

GaAs Schmitt trigger memory cell design

A novel GaAs five-transistor static memory cell derived from a Schmitt trigger is proposed. The memory cell overcomes MESFET subthreshold leakage loss by using a self ground-shifting technique which limits the leakage current flow to the cell. Compared with conventional GaAs SRAM cells, it offers small area and as well as fast read/write cycles. A 1 Kb prototype implemented in 1 μm nonself-aligned GaAs MESFET technology exhibited read and write access times of the order of 2.0 ns     

Characterization of double pulse-doped channel GaAs MESFETs

The fabrication and characterization of a double pulse-doped (DPD) GaAs MESFET grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) are reported. The electron mobility of a DPD structure with a carrier concentration of 3×10¹⁸/cm³ was 2000 cm²/V-s, which is about 20% higher than that of a pulse-doped (PD) structure. Implementing the DPD structure instead of the conventional PD structure as a GaAs MESFET channel, the drain breakdown voltage, current gain cutoff frequency, and maximum stable gain (MSG) increase. The maximum transconductance of 265 mS/mm at a drain current density of 600 mA/mm, a current gain cutoff frequency of 40 GHz, and an MSG of 11 dB at 18 GHz were obtained for a 0.3 μm n⁺ self-aligned DPD GaAs MESFET     

Direct ion-implanted 0.12 μm GaAs MESFET with ft of121 GHz and fmax of 160 GHz

An 0.12 μm gate length direct ion-implanted GaAs MESFET exhibiting excellent DC and microwave characteristics has been developed. By using a shallow implant schedule to form a highly-doped channel and an AsH₃ overpressure annealing system to optimize the shallow dopant profile, the GaAs MESFET performance was further improved. Peak transconductance of 500 mS/mm was obtained at I_ds =380 mA/mm. A noise figure of 0.9 dB with associated gain of 8.9 dB were achieved at 18 GHz. The current gain cutoff frequency f_max of 160 GHz indicates the suitability of this 0.12 μm T-gate device for millimeter-wave IC applications     

Design and performance of compact low noise GaAs MESFET amplifiers for UHF operation

The design considerations and experimental results of compact low noise GaAs MESFET Amplifiers for UHF operation are described in this paper. The miniaturized and optimized circuits are obtained by means of special matching network and CAD technique. Both a two-stage unit at 700 MHz and a three-stage unit at 1000 MHz are fabricated on a 50×60 mm² alumina substrate, and power gain of 29 dB and 30 dB, noise figure of 0.8 and 1.2 dB and bandwidth of 40 MHz (3 dB) and 100 MHz (1 dB) are obtained respectively. The satellite direct broadcasting TV receiver fabricated with a 700 MHz GaAs MESFET amplifier has clear pictures and good sound.     

大信号设计GaAs MESFET功率合成

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Equal-gain loci and stability of a microwave GaAs MESFET gate mixer

The performance of a microwave GaAs MESFET gate mixer is theoretically investigated to clarify the existence of a conditionally stable RF frequency range as well as an unconditionally stable frequency range in which maximum available conversion gain (MACG) can be defined. For the unconditionally stable range, the MACG and load and source impedances are calculated as functions of RF frequency. For the conditionally stable range, the stability circle and equal gain loci are shown for source RF and load IF impedances. The conditionally stable region of the GaAs MESFET mixer appears around F_T of the MESFET. Higher conversion gain is easily obtained by choosing a MESFET for which the F_T is close to the RF frequency     

A high-swing 2-V CMOS operational amplifier with replica-amp gainenhancement

A general gain-enhancement technique for operational amplifiers using a replica amplifier is described. Unlike conventional techniques such as cascoding, which increases the gain by increasing the output resistance, the replica-amp technique increase the gain by matching the main and the replica amps. Among the advantages of the replica-amp technique are low supply, high swing, and effectiveness with resistive loads. This technique has been demonstrated in a 1.2-μm CMOS two-stage op amp. Operating from ±1-V supplies, the op amp has an effective open-loop dc gain of greater than 10 000, while maintaining a high swing of 100 mV from either supply rails. The gain-enhancement circuit is shown to have only a small effect on the settling time experimentally, analytically, and in SPICE simulation     

两级GaAs单片功率放大器

本文报道了两级GaAs单片功率放大器的设计和制作,着重介绍了利用MESFET的小信号模型和直流负载特性设计MESFET在大信号状态下的最佳功率匹配的方法,该方法大大简化了放大器匹配电路的设计.制作在1.9×0.9mm GaAs外延片上的两级放大器,1dB带宽800MHz(670～1470MHz)频带内,最大小信号增益24dB,最大输出功率300mW.功率附加效率17.8%.     

High temperature DC and RF performance of p-type diamond MESFET:comparison with n-type GaAs MESFET

The DC and RF performance of a p-type diamond MESFET is simulated and compared with the simulated performance of an n-type GaAs MESFET over the operating temperature range, 300-923 K. Power performance of a diamond MESFET is shown to improve with increasing temperature and to exceed that of a GaAs MESFET when operated at temperatures higher than 550 and At 923 K the simulated diamond MESFET produces about 0.8 W/mm of output power for an operating frequency of 5 GHz. Small signal current gain for a diamond MESFET is also found to increase with temperature. The cut-off frequency, f_T, of a diamond MESFET at 923 K is comparable with that of a GaAs MESFET at room temperature. It is concluded that there are microwave power applications of MESFET's in p-type diamond but otherwise conventional design is limited to high temperature     

High gain wideband amplifier IC using 0.7 μm GaAs MESFETtechnology

A high gain wideband differential amplifier with a new circuit configuration is proposed and monolithically integrated by using 0.7 μm-gate GaAs MESFET IC technology. The fabricated IC exhibited gain of 16.7 dB and bandwidth of 3.2 GHz. A gain twice that of a conventional differential GaAs-MESFET amplifier was achieved with small bandwidth degradation     

小型超高频低噪声FET放大器的设计和性能

本文报道了UHF频段小型低噪声GaAs MESFET放大器的设计考虑、射频性能和试验结果。采用特殊的匹配网络和CAD技术使电路达到小型化和最佳化。设计的二级700MHz和三级1000MHz放大器均制作在50600.8mm3的陶瓷基片上。其射频性能分别为:功率增益GP为25dB(最佳29dB)和30dB,噪声系数NF低于1.1dB(最佳0.8dB)和1.2dB,带宽W约为40MHz(3dB)和100MHz(1dB)。用700MHz放大器装成的卫星直播电视接收机,接收图像清晰,伴音音质良好。     

A 3.2 GHz 26 dB wide-band monolithic matched GaAs MESFET feedbackamplifier using cascodes

Feedback around cascode stages is demonstrated to be a useful means of making matched direct coupled amplifiers with higher bandwidths than afforded by conventional common-source topologies. Design techniques are described for an amplifier which is capable of operation to DC and which exhibits a measured gain of 26 dB, a 3.2 GHz bandwidth, and a 2.5:1 VSWR in a 1-μm GaAs MESFET process. A novel adjustment scheme is introduced whereby the amplifier's frequency response can be modified using a DC bias voltage to ensure stable circuit operation in spite of MESFET modeling inaccuracies and GaAs processing variations     

高增益、高栅-漏击穿、低噪声微波砷化镓场效应晶体管

本文简要介绍了CX502N型微波砷化镓场效应晶体管的设计、特性与制造。器件采用了新的“积木式”台面结构,减小了栅-漏反馈电容。测试表明,器件具有高增益、高栅-漏击穿及低噪声特性。此外,文中还给出了与CX502N GaAs MESFET类似的器件CX503 GaAs MESFET的一些结果。     

Bandwidth optimization of a low power,high speed CMOS current op amp

A current op amp with a differential output and a single-ended input can be configured from a single second generation current conveyor and an output stage with a differential floating current source. Owing to a very simple basic configuration with a single dominant pole, this design combines a high bandwidth with a high open loop gain. In this paper we present the basic configuration, derive the fundamental equations for the performance of the op amp, and describe some design considerations with respect to an optimization of the op amp for a high bandwidth. Simulation results are given from a commercially available 2µm CMOS process resulting in an open loop differential gain of 94dB and a gain-bandwidth product of 128M H z at a supply voltage of 3V and a supply current of 25µA. The design has been experimentally verified through a test circuit and experimental results from this confirm the expected behaviour.