SiGe power HBT's for low-voltage, high-performance RF applications
- 1 April 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Electron Device Letters
- Vol. 19 (4) , 103-105
- https://doi.org/10.1109/55.663528
Abstract
Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) power heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT's) are fabricated by using two or ten device unit cells with an emitter area of 5/spl times/0.5/spl times/16.5 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ each. The large power transistor features 1 W RF output power at 3-dB gain compression, 3.5 V bias, and 2.4 GHz with a maximum power-added-efficiency (PAE) of 48% for class A/B operation. At a supply voltage of 1.5 V, the transistor delivers a 3-dB RF output power of 150 mW with a PAE of 47%. It is shown that a high collector doping level is advantageous for low-voltage operation. Further, by using special bias sense ports, the interconnect losses are found to degrade the device performance to a considerable degree.Keywords
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