1. Cryogenic performance of a 3–14 GHz bipolar SiGe low-noise amplifier.
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Aja, Beatriz, Villa, Enrique, de la Fuente, Luisa, and Artal, Eduardo
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LOW noise amplifiers , *BIPOLAR transistors , *TRANSISTORS , *PLASTICS in packaging , *COOLDOWN , *NOISE measurement - Abstract
The performance of silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistors under cryogenic operation is analysed. The design and characterization of a 3–14 GHz low-noise amplifier (LNA) using SiGe transistors at 300 K and at 13 K are presented. A three stage amplifier is implemented with bipolar transistors model BFU910F from NXP commercially available with a plastic package. The amplifier exhibits 36.8 dB average gain with average noise temperature of 103 K and 42 mW DC power consumption at 300 K ambient temperature. Whereas cooled down to 13 K ambient temperature, it provides 32.4 dB average gain, 11.4 K average noise temperature with a minimum of 7.2 K at 3.5 GHz and a DC power dissipation of 5.8 mW. The presented LNA demonstrates an outstanding performance at cryogenic temperature for a commercial plastic packaged transistor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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