InP DHBT Single-Stage and Multiplicative Distributed Amplifiers for Ultra-Wideband Amplification
Journal article, 2020

This paper highlights the gain-bandwidth merit of the single stage distributed amplifier (SSDA) and its derivative multiplicative amplifier topologies (i.e. the cascaded SSDA (C-SSDA) and the matrix SSDA (M-SSDA)), for ultra-wideband amplification. Two new monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) amplifiers are presented: An SSDA MMIC with 7.1dB average gain and 200GHz bandwidth; and the world's first M-SSDA, which has a 12dB average gain and 170GHz bandwidth. Both amplifiers are based on an Indium Phosphide DHBT process with 250nm emitter width. To the authors best knowledge, the SSDA has the widest bandwidth for any single stage amplifier reported to date. Furthermore, the three tier M-SSDA has the highest bandwidth and gain-bandwidth product for any matrix amplifier reported to date.

matrix amplifier

single stage distributed amplifier

InP

ultra-wideband amplifier

MMIC

Distributed amplification

Author

Temitope Odedeyi

University College London (UCL)

Stavros Giannakopoulos

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Herbert Zirath

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

I.Z. Darwazeh

University College London (UCL)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

1549-8328 (ISSN) 15580806 (eISSN)

Vol. 67 11 3804-3814 9209135

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Business Administration

DOI

10.1109/TCSI.2020.3025487

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