• DocumentCode
    3420140
  • Title

    Compact modeling based extraction of RF noise in SiGe HBT terminal currents

  • Author

    Xu, Ziyan ; Niu, Guofu

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    16-18 Jan. 2012
  • Firstpage
    137
  • Lastpage
    140
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a general purpose method of extracting RF noise in SiGe HBT base and collector currents using the very same compact models used for RFIC design. Practical issues with experimental data are discussed.
  • Keywords
    Ge-Si alloys; heterojunction bipolar transistors; integrated circuit noise; radiofrequency integrated circuits; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor heterojunctions; semiconductor materials; RFIC design; SiGe; SiGe HBT base current; SiGe HBT collector current; SiGe HBT terminal current; compact modeling-based RF noise extraction; Correlation; Frequency measurement; Integrated circuit modeling; Noise; Noise measurement; Thermal noise; Noise modeling; RF noise; SiGe HBT;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), 2012 IEEE 12th Topical Meeting on
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Clara, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1317-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SiRF.2012.6160162
  • Filename
    6160162