A Numerical Procedure to Determine the Power Intake/Delivery Capacity of a GaN RF Power Transistor over Broadband

Sedat Kilinc, Malik Ehsan Ejaz, Siddik Binboga Yarman, Serdar Ozoguz, Saket Srivastava, Edmond Nurellari

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel 'Real Frequency Line Segment Technique' based numerical procedure is introduced to assess the gain-bandwidth limitations of the given source and load impedances, which in turn results in the ultimate RF-power intake/delivering performance of the amplifier. During the numerical performance assessments process, a robust tool called 'Virtual Gain Optimization' is presented. Finally, a new definition called 'Power-Performance-Product' is introduced to measure the quality of an active device. Examples are presented to assess the gain-bandwidth limitations of the given source and load pull impedances for the 45W-GaN power transistor of Wolfspeed 'CG2H40045' over 0.8-3.8 GHz bandwidth.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 21st Mediterranean Microwave Symposium, MMS 2021
EditorsLuigi Boccia, Luca Catarinucci, Emilio Arnieri, Riccardo Colella
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781665471107
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event21st Mediterranean Microwave Symposium, MMS 2021 - Pizzo Calabro, Italy
Duration: 9 May 202213 May 2022

Publication series

NameMediterranean Microwave Symposium
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)2157-9822
ISSN (Electronic)2157-9830

Conference

Conference21st Mediterranean Microwave Symposium, MMS 2021
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPizzo Calabro
Period9/05/2213/05/22

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • Broadband Matching
  • Broadband Power Amplifier
  • Foster Functions
  • GaN Transistor
  • Gain-Bandwidth Limitation
  • Minimum Functions
  • Positive Real Functions
  • Real Frequency Techniques

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