SMALL-SIGNAL NON-LINEAR CURCUIT MODEL OF GAAS-MESFET

Simple analytical expressions are derived for the drain-to-gate feedback capacitance, for the gate-to-source input capacitance, for the equivalent domain capacitance and the equivalent domain resistance for a GaAs metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET). The equivalent circuit parameters are related to the material parameters such as the doping density, the dielectric constant, the low-field mobility, the diffusion coefficient, the built-in voltage and to the design parameters such as the gate length, the gate periphery, the active layer thickness, etc. The results which are in good agreement with the results of Willing et al. [4] may be used for a computer-aided design of GaAs power amplifiers and logic circuits. © 1979.