Compensation of Performance Degradation Due to Thermal Effects in GaN LNA Using Dynamic Bias
Paper in proceeding, 2018

This paper investigates the possibilities of using a dynamic bias control scheme for a low noise amplifier to compensate for performance degradation due to thermal effects. The study was performed by characterization of bias voltage and temperature dependence between -25°C to 75°C of a GaN MMIC LNA. The performance, in terms of gain, linearity and noise, degraded, at elevated chip temperatures. Nonlinear behavioral models were developed and used to predict performance for different bias and temperature conditions. Bias conditions to achieve constant gain and noise figure versus temperature are determined. Enhanced RF performance, with improved gain and linearity is demonstrated and is shown to require increased power and involves a trade-off between improving noise figure and gain.

low noise amplifier

gain control

dynamic bias

thermal effects

modeling

Author

Johan Bremer

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Lowisa Hanning

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Niklas Rorsman

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Mattias Thorsell

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

2018 48th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2018

1213-1216 8541789
978-1-5386-5285-5 (ISBN)

48th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2018
Madrid, Spain,

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Other Physics Topics

Signal Processing

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.23919/EuMIC.2018.8539890

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