A systematic state-space approach to large-signal transistor modeling

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-205

  Seelmann Eggebert, Matthias ^b   Merkle, Thomas ^c   Van Raay, Friedbert ^b   Quay, Rüdiger ^a,b   Schlechtweg, Michael ^b  

^a IEEE

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

GaN HEMT; Large signal (LS) transistor modeling; Low frequency (LF) dispersion; State space approach

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATE SPACE METHODS;

HIGH SPEED TRANSISTORS; LARGE SIGNAL (LS) TRANSISTOR MODELING; LOW FREQUENCY (LF) DISPERSION; PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS;

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33847752303     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.889154     Document Type: Article

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