Journal Article

·2001

An X-band GaN HEMT power amplifier design using an artificial neural network modeling technique

Sang‐Yun Lee , Bedri A. Cetiner YTU , Hamid Torpi YTU , S.J. Cai , Li Jiang , K. W. Alt , Y.L. Chen , Cheng P. Wen , Kexin Wang , T. Itoh

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Abstract

In this paper, the first gallium nitride (GaN) based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) power amplifier design using an artificial neural network (ANN) modeling technique is presented. The ANN technique was used to model the small signal behavior of a device with a gate periphery of 1 mm and a gate length of 1 /spl mu/m over the broad frequency range from 1 GHz to 26 GHz with multiple bias points, based on fitting calculated S-parameters to measured S-parameters. A single stage amplifier constructed using these parameters showed a gain of about 7 dB and an output power of 1.2 W at 8 GHz when biased at V/sub ds/ = 20 V and I/sub ds/ 220 mA in class AB mode. The good agreement between measured and simulated results was shown in both S-parameter modeling and in amplifier design.

Keywords

High-electron-mobility transistor Amplifier Gallium nitride Materials science Transistor Optoelectronics Large-signal model Electronic engineering Power (physics) Electrical engineering Engineering Physics Voltage

Subject Areas

GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials ·Condensed Matter Physics ·Physical Sciences
Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices ·Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ·Physical Sciences
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design ·Electrical and Electronic Engineering ·Physical Sciences

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