A 155-GHz monolithic low-noise amplifier

被引:22
作者
Wang, H
Lai, R
Kok, YL
Huang, TW
Aust, MV
Chen, YCC
Siegel, PH
Gaier, T
Dengler, RJ
Allen, BR
机构
[1] TRW Co Inc, Space & Technol Grp, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 USA
[2] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
关键词
InP; LNA; MMIC; pHEMT;
D O I
10.1109/22.734551
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper presents the design, fabrication, and test results of a three-stage 155-GHz monolithic low-noise amplifier (LNA) fabricated with the 0.1-mu m pseudomorphic (PM) InAlAs/InGaAs/InP HEMT technology. With this amplifier in a test fixture, a small-signal gain of 12 dB was measured at 155 GHz, and more than 10-dB gain from 151 to 156 GHz, When the amplifier was biased for a low noise figure (NF), an NF of 5.1 dB with an associated gain of 10.1 dB was achieved at 155 GHz, All the results above are referred to the monolithic-microwave integrated-circuit (MMIC) chip with the input and output waveguide-to-microstrip-line transition losses corrected.
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页码:1660 / 1666
页数:7
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