• DocumentCode
    1554407
  • Title

    10 dB small-signal graphene FET amplifier

  • Author

    Andersson, M.A. ; Habibpour, Omid ; Vukusic, Josip ; Stake, Jan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Göteborg, Sweden
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    14
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    861
  • Lastpage
    863
  • Abstract
    Reported is the realisation of a graphene FET microwave amplifier operating at 1 GHz, exhibiting a small-signal power gain of 10 dB and a noise figure of 6.4 dB. The amplifier utilises a matching inductor on the gate yielding a return loss of 20 dB. The design is optimised for maximum gain and the optimum noise figure is extracted by noise modelling and predicted to be close to 1 dB for the intrinsic graphene FET at this frequency. The presented results complement existing graphene FET applications and are promising for future graphene microwave circuits.
  • Keywords
    field effect transistors; graphene; microwave amplifiers; gain 10 dB; graphene FET microwave amplifier; graphene microwave circuits; intrinsic graphene FET; noise figure; noise figure 6.4 dB; noise modelling; return loss; small-signal graphene FET amplifier; small-signal power gain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2012.1347
  • Filename
    6235167