Abstract :
To characterize the noise behaviour of transistors, different noise equivalent circuits are used, in which the noise properties are described by noise voltage and current generators, coupled with noise impedances and admittances, and connected to the input and the output of noiseless networks that take into account all the characteristics of the transistors different from noise. Using the relation derived in this work, the equivalent circuits are extracted from the measurements of the four noise parameters; the equivalent noise resistance Rn, the optimum reflection coefficient Γ, and minimum noise figure NF min. In this way, the equivalent noise circuits of a low noise low power P-HEMT are extracted from the measurements of its noise parameters from 2 GHz to 26 GHz, and the spectral densities of their generators are presented
Keywords :
electric noise measurement; equivalent circuits; high electron mobility transistors; microwave field effect transistors; noise generators; semiconductor device models; semiconductor device noise; 2 to 26 GHz; current generators; equivalent noise resistance; minimum noise figure; noise equivalent circuits; noise generators; noise spectral densities; noiseless networks; optimum reflection coefficient; pseudomorphic HEMTs; voltage generators; Character generation; Circuit noise; Coupling circuits; Electrical resistance measurement; Equivalent circuits; Noise figure; Noise generators; Noise measurement; PHEMTs; Voltage;