• DocumentCode
    1776012
  • Title

    Design of a Ku-band AlGaN/GaN low noise amplifier

  • Author

    Fengqiang Guo ; Zhihong Yao

  • Author_Institution
    13th Res. Inst., China Electron. Technol. Group Corp., Shijiazhuang, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    26-29 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    1406
  • Lastpage
    1408
  • Abstract
    AlGaN/GaN technology is attractive for its application to power amplifier. With the deepening of the research, noise performance of GaN device has also won acceptance. Compared with GaAs LNA, GaN LNA has a unique superiority on power handling. In this paper, a GaN Ku-band low noise amplifier is designed. A noise figure of 2.4dB at 16GHz and a gain of 18dB in the band of 14-18GHz are obtained at a drain voltage of 10V. The fabricated MMIC occupies only 2mm × 1.1mm.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; MMIC power amplifiers; aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; low noise amplifiers; wide band gap semiconductors; AlGaN-GaN; AlGaN-GaN technology; GaN Ku-band low noise amplifier; GaN LNA; MMIC; frequency 14 GHz to 18 GHz; gain 18 dB; power amplifier; voltage 10 V; Aluminum gallium nitride; Gallium arsenide; Gallium nitride; HEMTs; Low-noise amplifiers; MMICs; Noise; AlGaN/GaN HEMT; LNA; noise figure;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2014 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Harbin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-4355-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCAP.2014.6992789
  • Filename
    6992789