DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF LOW-CURRENT GAAS MMICS FOR L-BAND FRONT-END APPLICATIONS

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IMAI, Y [1 ]
TOKUMITSU, M [1 ]
MINAKAWA, A [1 ]
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[1] NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TEL PUBL CORP, YOKOSUKA ELECT COMMUN LABS, RADIO COMMUN SYST LABS, YOKOSUKA, KANAGAWA 23803, JAPAN
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10.1109/22.102962
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
GaAs MMIC's with very low current and of very small size have been developed for L-band front-end applications. The MMIC's fully employ lumped LC elements with uniplanar configurations. There are two kinds of MMIC's: a low-noise amplifier and a mixer. The low-noise amplifier has a noise figure of 2.5 dB and a gain of 11.5 dB. The mixer has a conversion gain of 12.5 dB with small LO power of -3 dBm. Total current dissipation of the two MMIC's is less than 8 mA with 3 V drain bias voltages.
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