• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.713-721
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• 2004

This paper presents a high Performance LNA based on InGaP/GaAs HBT for 5.4㎓ WAM band applications. During the past days, InGaP/GaAs HBT has been being used for mainly high power amplifiers, but InCaP/GaAs is recognized as a suitable device for RF single chip. At this point, the research about a high performance LNA based on InGaP/GaAs HBT must be preceded, and in this paper, a excellent linearity and noise characteristics LNA based on InGaP/GaAs HBT is desisted and fabricated. The LNA is integrated in new of 0.9${\times}$0.9$\textrm{mm}^2$ single chip with high Q spiral inductors and MIM capacitors. The proposed LNA is biased at current point for optimum noise figure and gain characteristics, futhermore, excellent linearity is achieved. The proposed LNA shows 13㏈ gain, 2.1㏈ noise figure, and excellent linearity in terms of IIP3 of 5.5㏈m.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.155-159
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• 2003

This paper presents fully integrated 5 GHz band low phase noise LC tank VCO. The implemented VCO is tuned by integrated PN diode and tuning rage is $5.01{\sim}5.30$ GHz under $0{\sim}3 V$ control voltage. For good phase noise performance, LC filtering technique, common in Si CMOS process, is used, and to prevent degradation of phase noise performance by collector shot-noise and to reduce power dissipation the HBT is biased at low collector current density bias point. The measured phase noise is -87.8 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset frequency and -111.4 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency which is good performance. Moreover phase noise is improved by roughly 5 dEc by LC filter. It is the first experimental result in InGaP/GaAs HBT process. The figure of merit of the fabricated VCO with LC filter is -172.1 dBc/Hz. It is the best result among 5 GHz InGaP HBT VCOs. Moreover this work shows lower DC power consumption, higher output power and more fixed output power compared with previous 4, 5 GHz band InGaP HBT VCOs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.145-151
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• 2004

This paper presents a fully integrated 5 GHz band low phase noise LC tank VCO. The implemented VCO is tuned by integrated PN diodes and tuning rage is 5.01∼5.30 GHz with 0∼3 V control voltage. For improved phase noise performance, a LC filtering technique is adapted. The measured phase noise is -87.8 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset frequency and -111.4 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency which is excellent performance. Moreover phase noise is improved by 5 dB after employing the LC filter. It is the first experimental result in field of InGaP/GaAs HBT VCOs. The figure of merit of the fabricated VCO with LC filter is -172.1 dBc/Hz. It is the best result among 5 GHz InGaP HBT VCOs. Moreover this work shows lower DC power consumption, higher output power and more fixed output power compared with previous 4, 5 GHz band InGaP HBT VCOs.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.102-105
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• 2000

The self-aligned AICaAs/GaAs HBTs with the mesa-etched emitter showed severe degradation in current gain under stress. The cause was identified to be due to instability of the surface states on extrinsic base. In this paper the surface states were diminished by the hetero-passivation of the InGaP ledge emitter and the reliability was drastically improved. The activation energy of current gain degradation was extracted to be 1.97eV and MTTF to be 4.8$\times$108 at 14$0^{\circ}C$ which has satisfied MIL standards.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 2004

The integrated voltage-controlled-oscillator(VOC) operating at 1.75 ㎓ is designed using the InGaP/GaAs HBT process. The proposed noise removal circuit and FR-4 substrate structure in this letter show the better characteristic of the phase noise and reduce the size of the VCO. The frequency tuning range of the VCO is about 200 ㎒ and the phase noise at 120 ㎑ offset is -119.3 ㏈c/㎐. The power consumption of the VCO core is 11.2 ㎽ at 2.8 V supply voltage and the output power is -2 ㏈m. The calculated figure of merit(FOM) is 191.7, which shows the best performance compared with the previous FET or HBT VCO.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.944-949
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• 2003

In this paper, the double balance mixer(DBM) for Ku-band LNB using InGaP/GaAs HBT process is suggested for the characteristics of low DC power consumption, low noise figure, low intermodulation distortion and wide dynamic range. The 5 dB conversion gain, 14 dB NF, bandwidth 17.9 GHz and 50.34 dBc IMD are obtained under RF input power of -23 dBm, with bias condition as 3 V and 16 mA. The linearity of InGaP/GaAs HBT, the broad band input matching scheme and the optimization of bias point result in the low IMD, the broad bandwidth and the low power consumption characteristics.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.405-408
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• 1998

Due to the large conduction band discontinuity between emitter base, OmGaAs HBT has an advantge to enable the hot electrons to inject into the base. In this paper, InAlGaAs/InGaAs HBT with the various emitter junction gradings and the modified collectors are simulated and analyzed by HMC(hybrid monte carlo) simulator in order to find a optimal structure for the shortest transit time. A minium base transit time (.tau.$_{b}$ ) of 0.21 ps was obtained for HBT with the grading layer, which is parabolically graded from x=1.0 to x=0.5. The minimum collector transit time (.tau.$_{c}$ ) of 0.31ps was found when the collector was modified by inserting p$^{[-10]}$ and p$^{+}$ layers. Thus HBT in combination with the emitter grading and the modified collector layer showed the cut-off frequency (f$_{T}$) of 183GHz.z.z.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.13-16
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• 2001

InP/InGaAs Heterojunction phototransistors(HPT's) with an optically transparent ITO emitter electrode were fabricated and characterized. At the same time, heterojuntion transistors(HBT's) having the same device layout were fabricated. By comparison with InP/InGaAs HBT's, the do characteristics of InP/InGaAs HPT's showed the similar electrical charateristics of HBT's. the model parameters of the device were extracted and compared.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.11A
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• pp.902-911
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• 2003

Using InGaP/GaAs HBT power cells with a 2.0${\times}$20$\mu\textrm{m}$$^2$ emitter area of a unit HBT, a two stage MMIC power amplifier has been developed for IMT-2000 handsets. An active-bias circuit has been used for temperature compensation and reduction in the idling current. Fitting on measured S-parameters of the HBT cells, circuit elements of HBT's nonlinear equivalent model have been extracted. The matching circuits have been designed basically with the extracted model. A two stage HBT MMIC power amplifier fabricated using ETRI's HBT process. The power amplifier produces an 1-㏈ compressed output power(P$\_$l-㏈/) of 28.4 ㏈m with 31% power added efficiency(PAE) and 23-㏈ power gain at 1.95 GHz in on-wafer measurement. Also, the power amplifier produces a 26 ㏈m output power, 28% PAE and a 22.3-㏈ power gain with a -40 ㏈c ACPR at a 3.84 ㎒ off-center frequency in COB measurement.quency in COB measurement.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.16-24
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• 2002

In this paper, we fabricated heterojunction phototransistors(HPT's) with optically transparent ITO emitter contacts. Heterojunction transistors(HBT's) having the same device layout were fabricated to compare with HPT's. The model parameters of the devices were extracted and compared. Emitter contact resistance(RE) of the HPT was about 6.4$\Omega$, which was very similar to that of HBT and the other DC model parameters of the Inp/InGaAs HPT showed the similarities to those of the HIBT.