Farzana Yasmin, A. Chakravorty, N. Dasgupta, A. DasGupta
{"title":"Extraction of Emitter Series Resistance Along With Collector and Thermal Resistances in Silicon Bipolar Transistors","authors":"Farzana Yasmin, A. Chakravorty, N. Dasgupta, A. DasGupta","doi":"10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051753","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an extraction method for emitter series resistance (RE) following a reliable extraction of thermal resistance (RTH) and collector series resistance (RCx) in silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors. While the effect of self-heating non-negligibly influences the extracted RE value, our proposed method of RCx extraction in the inverse active region of operation ensures a self-heating independent value. The proposed method is applied on the SPICE generated synthetic data in order to be able to directly verify the accuracy of the extracted parameters. It is observed that the proposed method yields an excellent accuracy in the extracted parameters.","PeriodicalId":289208,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122698593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Nakatani, Mohammad Ali Zolfaghari, Jonmei J. Yan, P. Asbeck
{"title":"A 29-dBm, 34% PAE E-Band Dual-Input Doherty Power Amplifier Using 40-nm GaN Technology","authors":"T. Nakatani, Mohammad Ali Zolfaghari, Jonmei J. Yan, P. Asbeck","doi":"10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051765","url":null,"abstract":"A low E-band dual-input two-stage Doherty power amplifier is demonstrated using 40-nm T-gate GaN technology. Power-dependent biasing is used to enhance efficiency, with zero bias current of the auxiliary amplifier in backoff while the same bias is applied to both main and auxiliary amplifier at full power to achieve high output power and efficiency. Using the Ozen lumped-element Doherty combiner design technique, the effects of FET parasitic components are minimized. In on-wafer testing, the fabricated MMIC achieves PAE of 34% at output power of 25 dBm (backoff case) and at 29 dBm (full power case) at 71 GHz.","PeriodicalId":289208,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS)","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128621393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
U. Raghunathan, S. Sirohi, V. Ruparelia, P. Sharma, D. Ioannou, V. Jain, H. K. Kakara, S. Gedela, V. Vanukuru, P. Dongmo, C. Luce, R. Hazbun, R. Krishnasamy, J. Hwang, M. Levy, Kristin Welch, S. Liu, B. Cucci, S. Cole, J. Kantarovsky, A. Vallett, I. McCallum-Cook, M. Yu, R. Phelps, A. DiVergilio, A. Sturm, M. Peters, S. Johnson, R. Rassel, M. Lagerquist, M. Kerbaugh, K. Newton, J. Pekarik, Q. Liu
{"title":"Performance Improvements of SiGe HBTs in 90nm BiCMOS Process with fT/fmax of 340/410 GHz","authors":"U. Raghunathan, S. Sirohi, V. Ruparelia, P. Sharma, D. Ioannou, V. Jain, H. K. Kakara, S. Gedela, V. Vanukuru, P. Dongmo, C. Luce, R. Hazbun, R. Krishnasamy, J. Hwang, M. Levy, Kristin Welch, S. Liu, B. Cucci, S. Cole, J. Kantarovsky, A. Vallett, I. McCallum-Cook, M. Yu, R. Phelps, A. DiVergilio, A. Sturm, M. Peters, S. Johnson, R. Rassel, M. Lagerquist, M. Kerbaugh, K. Newton, J. Pekarik, Q. Liu","doi":"10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051761","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the recent addition of an improved high performance (HP) NPN HBT to GF’s 90nm BiCMOS SiGe 9HP technology. The HP NPN with fT/fmax of 340/410 GHz and medium breakdown (MB) NPN with fT/BVCBO of 150 GHz / 8.4 V have been developed as new feature options within the technology. As the improvements are made without altering the integration, the full suite of passive and CMOS elements from the original process are still available. This work presents the measured enhancements in the device performance along with the gains at the circuit level.","PeriodicalId":289208,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125631579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Makiyama, Shigeki Yoshida, K. Nakata, Y. Miyamoto
{"title":"Innovative RF Device Technologies for Advanced Information and Communications Network Society","authors":"K. Makiyama, Shigeki Yoshida, K. Nakata, Y. Miyamoto","doi":"10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051695","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the innovation of RF device technologies for wireless communication. Over the last decade, data traffic on the internet has increased exponentially. In particular, data traffic over wireless networks has exploded due to IoT including mobile phones. Since the 1990s, global wireless communication systems and personal cellular services, have evolved from 1G to 4G in order to meet the huge demand for wireless communication. Recently we are focusing on the research and development of devices and amplifiers for 5G, which is being implemented, and beyond 5G and 6G, which are on the horizon. The 5G system consists of many macro cells and small cells, and its power consumption is enormous. The high efficiency and high- power density of GaN devices decreases the power consumption of the whole system. Up to now, ongoing research on N-polar GaN has demonstrated an extremely high-power and high PAE at W-band. Recently we demonstrated innovative high-k MIS N-polar GaN HEMTs which were fabricated, for the first time, using commercial 4-inch wafer process facilities. We overcame the challenge of developing a vital gate insulating film by incorporating Si LSI material technology. Furthermore, a ScAlN/GaN HEMT with high polarization and lattice-matching is also promising. An AlN/GaN HEMT on AlN substrate achieves high current density without heating up. Heat dissipation technology is a critical method of improving device performance and efficiency. Moreover, we developed a novel passivation technology to control the electric flux lines using dielectric potions as a new engineering method for controlling the electric field of devices. This paper reports these innovative technologies for RF devices and amplifiers.","PeriodicalId":289208,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129604342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}