Two-terminal InGaAs microwave amplifier

Microwave Amplifier Figure of Merit Measurement

Fig.2 Amplifier under test. Amplifiers can operate in classes A, B, AB, C, D, E and F [2]. We tested class A amplifier made by „Microwave Power Devices“, Model: LWA 4690-1/1837, based on bipolar devices (Fig.2). Usually, 1dB compression point, gain and two-tone third-order intercept point are measured as the amplifier figure of merit. As specified by manufacturer, the frequency range of the amp...

InGaAs/GaAsSb based two-dimensional electron gases

Two Baseband Logarithmic Amplifier Designs Using Parallel Feedback Amplifier Cells

In this work, parallel feedback amplifiers (PFAs) are presented as a means of generating ultra broadband logarithmic amplifiers. The low frequency gain equations and an AC model of PFAs are given. A circuit is presented for automatic, on-chip DC offset error reduction. In addition, circuits for achieving temperature and process stable, high power, low noise logarithmic amplifiers are described....

A CAD Based Tutorial on Microwave Amplifier Design

Microwave amplifiers find applications in almost all devices working at high frequencies and thus find applications in communication systems, satellites as also radars and navigations. It is thus very important for the students of electronics and its allied branches to have an in depth knowledge about the design of such amplifiers. The design of microwave amplifiers is a vast subject, and is by...

Josephson junction microwave amplifier in self-organized noise compression mode

The fundamental noise limit of a phase-preserving amplifier at frequency [Formula: see text] is the standard quantum limit [Formula: see text]. In the microwave range, the best candidates have been amplifiers based on superconducting quantum interference devices (reaching the noise temperature [Formula: see text] at 700 MHz), and non-degenerate parametric amplifiers (reaching noise levels close...