A kind of super performance InGaP/GaAs HBT with f T=108GHz and f max =140GHz is demonstrated.The excellent frequency performance results from the novel structure of the U shaped emitter,together with self aligned emitter and LEU(lateral etched undercut) technologies.The HBT with the novel structure shows a distinguished performance with BV CEO up to 25V.And excellent performance of low V offset of 105mV and V knee of 0 50V is great favor of low power applications.The differences due to the different structure are also compared.
With the large-signal model extracted from the InGaP/GaAs HBT with three fingers,a three-stage,class AB power amplifier at ISM band is designed.Through the optimization of the traditional bias network,the gain compression at the low input power level is eliminated successfully.At 3.5V of supply voltage of the power amplifier after optimization exhibits 30dBm of maximum linear output power,43.4% of power added efficiency 109.7mA of a quite low quiescent bias current ,29.1dB of the corresponding gain,and -100dBc of the adjacent channel power rejection (ACPR) at the output power of 30dBm.
