Effects of low noise amplifier under high power microwave back-door coupling

Author

Guo, Chao ; Lv, Zhiqing ; Shi, Xiaowei ; Xu, Le ; Cai, Minghui

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Sci. & Technol. on Antennas & Microwaves, Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

4

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The back-door coupling effects of the low noise amplifier (LNA) under high power microwave (HPM) has been studied in this paper. First, a low noise amplifier is designed by the circuit simulation software Advanced Design System (ADS), then the LNA circuit is imported in to the High Frequency Simulator Structure (HFSS) to carry out the hybrid analysis of back-door coupling effects of HPM on LNA. We get the voltage of the gate and drain terminals of the LNA transistor. After that, the voltage is regarded as an interference signal, and is added to the transistor´s corresponding pin, which is simulated by ADS. All above operations are aimed at comparing the changes in gain and noise figure before and after adding the interference signal to the LNA. At last, it is concluded that special protection should be put on signal input pins, and this can be used as a guide to provide protection to the LNA from back door coupling of high power microwave in application.

Keywords

interference (signal); low noise amplifiers; microwave amplifiers; microwave transistors; ADS circuit simulation software; HFSS; HPM; LNA circuit; LNA transistor; circuit simulation software advanced design system; drain terminals; gate terminals; high frequency simulator structure; high power microwave backdoor coupling effect; interference signal; low noise amplifier effect; noise figure; Couplings; Integrated circuit modeling; Interference; Logic gates; Microwave amplifiers; Noise measurement; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230251

Filename

6230251