{"title":"Life testing and failure analysis of PHEMT MMICs","authors":"W. Anderson, J. Roussos, J. Mittereder","doi":"10.1109/GAASRW.2000.902418","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Accelerated high temperature RF life testing was used to investigate the reliability of two-stage GaAs MMIC power amplifiers based on 0.25 m PHEMT technology. Life testing was performed at elevated baseplate temperatures with MMICs operating at typical DC bias conditions and large signal RF drive levels of two dB compression. The resulting failure distribution was log normal and the estimated median life time extrapolated to a channel temperature of 140 C was 2.3x10/sup 6/ hours with an activation energy of 1.1 eV.","PeriodicalId":199689,"journal":{"name":"2000 GaAs Reliability Workshop. Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00TH8513)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2000 GaAs Reliability Workshop. Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00TH8513)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAASRW.2000.902418","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Accelerated high temperature RF life testing was used to investigate the reliability of two-stage GaAs MMIC power amplifiers based on 0.25 m PHEMT technology. Life testing was performed at elevated baseplate temperatures with MMICs operating at typical DC bias conditions and large signal RF drive levels of two dB compression. The resulting failure distribution was log normal and the estimated median life time extrapolated to a channel temperature of 140 C was 2.3x10/sup 6/ hours with an activation energy of 1.1 eV.