Design and Fabrication of a 911 GHz Balanced Low Noise Amplifier Using HJFET
Publish place: Journal of Communication Engineering، Vol: 3، Issue: 2
Publish Year: 1393
نوع سند: مقاله ژورنالی
زبان: English
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 22 مهر 1398
Abstract:
This paper describes the design of an X-band balanced low noise amplifier (LNA) using an available HJFET device. The balanced LNA consists of a pair of electrically similar transistors whose input and output signals are divided or combined by 3 dB two-stage Wilkinson power dividers. The proposed balanced LNA is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the noise figure is 1.30 dB at 10 GHz, the input and output return loss are more than 15 dB and 10 dB, respectively. Also, the gain of 12 dB and gain flatness of ±0.5 dB over the 9-11 GHz frequency range are associated to the balanced LNA. In addition, 15-element small signal equivalent model parameters of the HJFET device used in amplifier design are extracted with an analytical and optimization approache such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to achieve accurate values. The small-signal model parameters evaluated with the PSO attain 5.9% error compared to the measured data. The validity of the proposed approach is shown by comparing the modeled S-parameter and measured results over 2-18GHz. Simulation results indicate that the PSO approach accurately extracts the small signal model parameters of the HJFET.
Keywords:
balanced LNA , heterojunction field , effect transistor (HJFET) , Wilkinson power divider , Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) , small , signal model
Authors
Reza Bahadori-Nezhad
Avionics Research Institute
Zaker Hossein Firouzeh
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zahra Zeinadini
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering