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The Effect of Gate Leakage on the Noise Figure of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
- Author(s): Sanabria, Christopher
- et al.
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https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2005.860889Abstract
The effect of gate leakage on the noise figure of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMTs) is explored. It is shown that these devices have a sizable amount of gate leakage that cannot be ignored when measuring their noise performance. Measurements across a single sample have more than 1 dB of variation in minimum noise figure. We will show this variation is because of gate leakage. A modified van der Ziel model is used to predict this large variation and allows easy noise figure prediction of HEMT and MESFET devices.
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