Distributed amplifier MMIC with 21 dB gain and 90 GHz bandwidth using InP-based DHBTs

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 56-59

  Schneider, K ^a   Driad, R ^a   Makon, R E ^a   Weimann, G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bipolar integrated circuits; Distributed amplifiers (DAs); Driver circuits; Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs); Indium compounds (InP); MMICs

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR (CS); CUT OFF FREQUENCY (FT); DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER (DA); INP DHBT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 47349115299     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS07.2007.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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