Nanosecond pHEMT switches

In today´s world of rapidly changing technology, systems are being designed with speed in mind. From sensors to processors, every designer wants to avoid delay of all kinds. To maintain very high bandwidth and linearity performance while simultaneously minimizing consumed power, many engineers choose gallium arsenide pHEMT switch products for their designs. With the increasing pressure for systems to do things faster, device lag times have become critical parameters. To meet this need, a unique proprietary pHEMT technology to ensure rapid settling has been developed enabling the state-of-the-art to be advanced from a previous level of almost 300 microseconds to less than 20 nanoseconds as demonstrated by the efforts reported in this paper.