GaAs monocycle pulse generator for UWB applications

Author

Mazer, S. ; Rumelhard, C. ; Algani, C. ; Terré, M. ; Deshours, F.

Author_Institution

Conservatoire Nat. des Arts et Metiers, Paris

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

1566

Lastpage

1569

Abstract

This paper reports the design and test of a wavelet generator circuit which provides ultra short monocycle pulses of about 300 ps width alternately in phase and out of phase. This generator circuit is based on the representation of the pulse as a mathematical function which is a combination of four hyperbolic tangents. The final circuit of the generator was designed and realized on a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) GaAs technology based on a pseudomorphic heterojunction FET (PHEMT) having a gate length of 0.25 mum (PH25 of UMS foundry).

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MMIC; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; high electron mobility transistors; pulse generators; ultra wideband communication; GaAs; PHEMT; UWB applications; monocycle pulse generator; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; pseudomorphic heterojunction FET; wavelet generator circuit; Circuit testing; FET integrated circuits; Gallium arsenide; MMICs; Microwave FET integrated circuits; Microwave generation; Microwave integrated circuits; Pulse circuits; Pulse generation; Space vector pulse width modulation; GaAs; MMIC; Monocycle pulse generator; ultra wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2007. European

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-2-87487-001-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2007.4405507

Filename

4405507