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Design of Broad-Band Power GaAs FET Amplifiers

Y. Tajima, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1984 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 3, pp 261-267
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A model is presented for the drain-gate breakdown phenomenon of GaAs FET's, based on experimental results, which is added to a previously published large-signal model and incorporated in a powerful computer-aided design program called LSFET.
Abstract
A model is presented for the drain-gate breakdown phenomenon of GaAs FET's, based on experimental results. this breakdown model is added to a previously published large-signal model and incorporated in a powerful computer-aided design program called LSFET. The program is capable of searching for the optimum power load for an FET and simulating the power performance of multistage amplifiers. The design of power amplifiers is discussed in detail, using the knowledge gained from LSFET. Data is presented from a fabricated monolithic broad-band power amplifier chip showing good agreement between measured results and simulated curves.

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A Nonlinear GaAs FET Model for Use in the Design of Output Circuits for Power Amplifiers

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An Electrothermal Model for AlGaN/GaN Power HEMTs Including Trapping Effects to Improve Large-Signal Simulation Results on High VSWR

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-signal electrothermal model for AlGaN/GaN HEMTs including gate and drain related trapping effects is proposed, which is well formulated to preserve convergence capabilities and simulation times.
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A Nevv Method of Third-Order Intermodulation Reduction in Nonlinear Microwave Systems

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Quasi-linear amplification using self-phase distortion compensation technique

TL;DR: In this paper, a self-phase distortion compensation technique was proposed to realize linear power amplifiers, in which the positive phase deviation from a common-source FET and the negative phase deviation of a commongate FET cancel each other.
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Nonlinear analysis of microwave FET oscillators using Volterra series

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GaAs FET large-signal model and its application to circuit designs

TL;DR: In this article, a large-signal GaAs FET model is derived based on dc characteristics of the device and analytical expressions of modeled nonlinear elements are presented in a form convenient for circuit design.
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A Technique for Predicting Large-Signal Performance of a GaAs MESFET

TL;DR: In this article, a method is described for accurately predicting the nonlinear microwave performance of GaAs MESFET devices using time-domain analysis and the experimentally characterized bias dependence of device-circuit model elements.
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Quasi-Static Approach to Simulating Nonlinear GaAs FET Behavior

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TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-static device model is used to predict nonlinear performance of microwave GaAs field effect transistors in arbitrary circuit embedding using a quasistatic model.
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