Analysis and design of HBT Cherry-Hooper amplifiers with emitter-follower feedback for optical communications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1959-1967

  Holdenried, Chris D ^a,b   Haslett, James W ^a,b   Lynch, Michael W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TRLABS   (Canada)

^c SYNOPSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bessel response; Cherry Hooper; Emitter follower feedback; Optical communications; SiGe HBT

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

BESSEL RESPONSES; EMITTER-FOLLOWER FEEDBACK; SIGNAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 8344267599     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.835819     Document Type: Article

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