• DocumentCode
    2537359
  • Title

    200GHz fT SiGe HBT load pull characterization at mm-wave frequencies

  • Author

    Boglione, Luciano ; Webster, Richard T.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-25 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    215
  • Lastpage
    218
  • Abstract
    The load pull measurement of a commercially available SiGe HBT device has been performed at Q band over frequency and bias. Measured mm-wave results for the SiGe process under test have never been made available to the general public before and no comparable information on similar SiGe devices is available in the public domain. The goal of this paper is to begin to fill this gap: load pull results along with a discussion of the characterization setup and procedure are presented.
  • Keywords
    heterojunction bipolar transistors; Q band; SiGe; SiGe HBT load pull characterization; SiGe devices; frequency 200 GHz; load pull measurement; Design optimization; Force measurement; Frequency measurement; Germanium silicon alloys; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Q measurement; Silicon germanium; Testing; load-pull; measurement; mm-wave SiGe HBT device;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • ISSN
    1529-2517
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6240-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477275
  • Filename
    5477275