T. Shiga, R. Hattori, T. Kunii, T. Oku, K. Sato, O. Ishihara
{"title":"Drain current drift by holes trapped in Schottky contact in WSi gate GaAs MESFETs","authors":"T. Shiga, R. Hattori, T. Kunii, T. Oku, K. Sato, O. Ishihara","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.528967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.528967","url":null,"abstract":"Hysteretic drain current (Id) drift phenomena observed in the high power operation of WSi gate GaAs MESFETs were studied. The existence of a thin insulating layer at WSi-GaAs interface originated by the native oxide on GaAs surface was revealed by XPS and X-ray reflection. Id drift phenomena can be explained as the effect of holes being trapped in the insulating layer at the WSi-GaAs Schottky contact interface.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128954301","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}
Chung-Hwan Kim, Min-Gun Kim, In-Gab Hwang, Chang-Seok Lee, Jong-Lam Lee, E. Oh, Jeon-Wook Yang, Chul-Soon Park, K. Yoon, K. Pyun, Hyung‐Moo Park
{"title":"A 3.3 V front-end receiver GaAs MMIC for the digital/analog dual-mode hand-held phones","authors":"Chung-Hwan Kim, Min-Gun Kim, In-Gab Hwang, Chang-Seok Lee, Jong-Lam Lee, E. Oh, Jeon-Wook Yang, Chul-Soon Park, K. Yoon, K. Pyun, Hyung‐Moo Park","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.528960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.528960","url":null,"abstract":"A front-end receiver MMIC for 3.3 V-operating CDMA/AMPS dual-mode hand held phone has been developed using a GaAs MESFET process. The developed MMIC, chip size of which is 1.9/spl times/3.9 mm/sup 2/ shows noise figure of 2.8 dB, power gain of 35/25 dB at the nominal current consumption of 22.5/16.1 mA in CDMA/AMPS modes, respectively.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"18 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131894521","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. Morf, C. Brys, P. D. De Dobbelaere, P. van Daele, P. Demeester, T. Martinson, W. Bachtold
{"title":"Integrating optical receiver transplanted by epitaxial lift off","authors":"T. Morf, C. Brys, P. D. De Dobbelaere, P. van Daele, P. Demeester, T. Martinson, W. Bachtold","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.528991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.528991","url":null,"abstract":"A GaAs integrating optical receiver has been designed and realized using a commercial foundry process. The receiver was then transplanted by epitaxial lift off (ELO) onto an InP substrate. This technology allows the monolithical integration of previously incompatible materials onto one chip. To our knowledge the chip described is the most complex chip that has been transplanted by ELO. The integrating receiver described here presents a novel circuit topology to integrate optical input power.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"2 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131438248","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}
R. Yu, S. Beccue, P. Zampardi, R. Pierson, A. Petersen, K. Wang, J. Bowers
{"title":"A packaged broadband monolithic variable gain amplifier implemented in AlGaAs/GaAs HBT technology","authors":"R. Yu, S. Beccue, P. Zampardi, R. Pierson, A. Petersen, K. Wang, J. Bowers","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.528993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.528993","url":null,"abstract":"Broadband monolithic variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) were designed and fabricated using an AlGaAs/GaAs HBT technology. The VGAs were housed in high-speed packages. The packaged VGAs provided 10-16 dB adjustable gain with approximately /spl plusmn/1 dB gain variations and constant group delay in the DC-26 GHz band, and showed better than 10 dB input/output return losses in the amplifier passband. These VGAs can be used in fiber optic transmission systems with data rates up to 30 GBit/s.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"688 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116169671","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}
M. Camiade, C. Dourlens, V. Serru, P. Savary, J.C. Blanc
{"title":"Highly integrated and compact W-band front-end for radiometry application","authors":"M. Camiade, C. Dourlens, V. Serru, P. Savary, J.C. Blanc","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.529001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.529001","url":null,"abstract":"Using conventional 0.25 /spl mu/m HEMT (VLN02 process) and pseudomorphic 0.15 /spl mu/m HEMT (MM015 process), a highly integrated and low power consumption receiver has been developed for a W-band radiometer. All the millimeter-wave functions and even the first stage of IF amplifier are fully integrated on MMIC technology according to a multifunction approach. A compact housing has been developed for chip integration. A high performance oscillator at LO sub-harmonic provides less than -93 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz from carrier at 46.6 GHz. The complete front-end assembly exhibits more than 20 dB conversion gain and less than 6.5 dB noise figure around 93.5 GHz RF frequency and 100 to 600 MHz associated IF frequency. To our knowledge this realization is the first report of a fully monolithic W-band complete front-end based on industrial HEMT technologies and dedicated to space applications.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124036018","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}
E. Lin, H. Wang, K. Chang, L. Tran, J. Cowles, T. Block, D. Lo, G. Dow, A. Oki, D. Streit, B. Allen
{"title":"Monolithic millimeter-wave Schottky-diode-based frequency converters with low drive requirements using an InP HBT-compatible process","authors":"E. Lin, H. Wang, K. Chang, L. Tran, J. Cowles, T. Block, D. Lo, G. Dow, A. Oki, D. Streit, B. Allen","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.528998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.528998","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the successful development of monolithic millimeter-wave frequency converter circuits using an InP HBT-compatible Schottky-diode process. A 94 GHz singly-balanced mixer and a 47-to-94 GHz passive doubler have been fabricated and tested, and both designs have attained admirable conversion loss with low input drive requirements. The mixer has also demonstrated significant improvement in noise figure at low intermediate frequencies compared to a GaAs HEMT diode mixer. At an IF of 1 MHz, the InP HBT diode mixer achieved a DSB noise figure of 16 dB, which is a 17 dB improvement compared to the GaAs HEMT diode mixer.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129053172","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}
M. Feng, D. Scherrer, P.J. Apostolakis, J. Middleton, M. McPartlin, B.D. Lauterwasser, J. Oliver
{"title":"Low cost millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuits using direct ion implanted GaAs MESFETs","authors":"M. Feng, D. Scherrer, P.J. Apostolakis, J. Middleton, M. McPartlin, B.D. Lauterwasser, J. Oliver","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.528995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.528995","url":null,"abstract":"Ka-band monolithic low noise amplifiers using low cost direct ion implanted GaAs MESFETs with 0.25 micron \"T\"-gates have been developed for use at 27 to 34 GHz. The five stage MMIC amplifier is designed based on 50% I/sub dss/ self-biasing using a single power supply. These amplifiers achieved 2 to 3 dB noise figure with 30 dB associated gain at 33 GHz. These results rival the best GaAs p-HEMT MMIC results to date.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129054263","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. Nary, R. Nubling, S. Beccue, W. T. Colleran, J. Penney, Keh-Chung Wang
{"title":"An 8-bit, 2 gigasample per second analog to digital converter","authors":"K. Nary, R. Nubling, S. Beccue, W. T. Colleran, J. Penney, Keh-Chung Wang","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.529016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.529016","url":null,"abstract":"We report on an 8-bit, 2 gigasample per second analog to digital converter (ADC) fabricated in an AlGaAs-GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) process. The ADC utilizes a folding and interpolation architecture to provide wide bandwidth with a moderate device count. When sampling at 2 gigasamples per second (GS/s), the ADC has demonstrated an effective resolution of between 6.5 and 7.0 effective bits for analog inputs between DC and 1.5 GHz and a single tone spurious free dynamic range of 48 dB at Nyquist. The ADC incorporates over 2500 transistors and dissipates 5.3 Watts from 5.0 V and -5.2 V supplies.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"65 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132869502","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}
{"title":"A high-voltage, Ka-band power MMIC with 41% efficiency","authors":"J. Schellenberg","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.529012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.529012","url":null,"abstract":"A power MMIC, employing a unique series bias scheme, is reported operating over the 32 to 34.5 GHz band with a power-added efficiency (PAE) of greater than 33%. Operating at 20 volts, this IC has demonstrated an output power of 0.66 watt at 33 GHz with an associated PAE of 41.1%. This is the highest reported efficiency for an MMIC operating at Ka-band frequencies. Biased at 28 volts for power, another IC produced an output power of 1.1 watt with an associated PAE of 35.8%. The chip is a compact 2/spl times/3.84 mm/sup 2/.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134173378","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}
{"title":"A 50% efficiency 8 W C-band PHEMT power MMIC amplifier","authors":"P. White, T.M. O'Leary","doi":"10.1109/GAAS.1995.529010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GAAS.1995.529010","url":null,"abstract":"A fully monolithic PHEMT power amplifier is presented which provides 8 W at 50% power added efficiency and 24 dB associated gain over a 4.3 to 5.1 GHz bandwidth in a 25 ohm system. Half-size chips deliver 4 W into 50 ohms at similar gain and efficiency. The approach to achieving high efficiency in this first-pass design, by providing proper harmonic terminations for near class-F operation, is described.","PeriodicalId":422183,"journal":{"name":"GaAs IC Symposium IEEE Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit Symposium 17th Annual Technical Digest 1995","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115203007","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}