Microwave Power FET DC Model Extraction through Isothermal Non-Pulsed Measurements

Author

Torregrosa-Penalva, Germán ; Asensio-López, Alberto ; Blanco-Del-Campo, Álvaro ; Fernández-González, Jorge

Author_Institution

Area de Teoria de la Serial y Comunicaciones, Univ. Miguel Hernandez, Elche

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

343

Abstract

In this work a new approach to extract the experimental fitting parameters of a microwave power FET temperature dependent DC-model is presented. The suggested procedure avoids the possibility of multiple model solutions by eliminating the measurements temperature dependence. This is accomplished by making use of isothermal measurements which in turn are obtained following a simple non-pulsed approach. The proposed technique was applied to a commercial X band MMIC FET power amplifier

Keywords

MMIC power amplifiers; field effect MMIC; power field effect transistors; power integrated circuits; temperature measurement; DC model; MMIC FET power amplifier; X band; isothermal DC curves; temperature measurement; Electrical resistance measurement; Isothermal processes; MMICs; Microwave FETs; Microwave measurements; Power amplifiers; Power measurement; Pulse measurements; Temperature dependence; Thermal resistance; DC model; MMIC FET power amplifier; isothermal DC curves; temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006. The 1st

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-8-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMICC.2006.282651

Filename

4057645