• DocumentCode
    810680
  • Title

    High-power monolithic AlGaN/GaN HEMT switch for X-band applications

  • Author

    Ciccognani, W. ; De Dominicis, M. ; Ferrari, M. ; Limiti, E. ; Peroni, M. ; Romanini, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    15
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    911
  • Lastpage
    912
  • Abstract
    The design, fabrication and test of X-band high-power monolithic SPDT switches in microstrip GaN technology are presented. Such switches have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance: they exhibit 1 dB on-state insertion loss and better than 37 dB isolation. Power- handling measurements have shown that no compression phenomenon occurs with an input power equal to 39.5 dBm at 10 GHz.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; field effect transistor switches; gallium compounds; high electron mobility transistors; wide band gap semiconductors; AlGaN-GaN; X-band; compression phenomenon; frequency 10 GHz; high-power monolithic switch; insertion loss; microstrip technology; power-handling measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20081170
  • Filename
    4568708