A small chip size 2 W, 62% efficient HBT MMIC for 3 V PCN applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1277-1282

  Müller, Jan Erik ^a,b,d   Baureis, Peter ^b,c   Berger, Otto ^b   Boettner, Thomas ^b   Bovolon, Nicola ^b   Schultheis, Rüdiger ^b   Packeiser, Gerhard ^b   Zwicknagl, Peter ^b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c Fachhochschule   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equivalent circuits; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Microwave power bipolar transistor amplifiers; MMIC power amplifiers; Mobile communication; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor device thermal factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000010653     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.711324     Document Type: Article

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