a CNRS, LAAS, 7 Avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31400 Toulouse, France b Univ de Toulouse, UPS, LAAS, F-31400 Toulouse, France c Université de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire AMPERE, UMR 5005, INSA de Lyon, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France d Institut de Microelectrónica de Barcelona-Centre Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Universitat Autònoma de Bar...

Agrowing number of semiconductor technologies are being applied to RF power transistor applications. These technologies include Si LDMOS FET, SiGe HBT, InGaP HBT, GaAs MESFET, AlGaAs pHEMT, SiC MESFET and AlGaN/GaN HEMT. The dependencies of linearity and efficiency of such technologies are often common, such as transconductance derivatives, capacitance variations, breakdown effects and parasiti...