Large Signal Evaluation of Nonlinear HBT Model

Iltcho ANGELOV
Akira INOUE
Shinsuke WATANABE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E91-C    No.7    pp.1091-1097
Publication Date: 2008/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e91-c.7.1091
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM 2007)
Category: GaAs- and InP-Based Devices
Keyword: 
HBT,  large signal model,  bipolar transistor models,  nonlinear circuits,  

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Summary: 
The performance of recently developed Large Signal (LS) HBT model was evaluated with extensive LS measurements like Power spectrum, Load pull and Inter-modulation investigations. Proposed model has adopted temperature dependent leakage resistance and a simplified capacitance models. The model was implemented in ADS as SDD. Important feature of the model is that the main model parameters are taken directly from measurements in rather simple and understandable way. Results show good accuracy despite the simplicity of the model. To our knowledge the HBT model is one of a few HBT models which can handle high current & Power HBT devices, with significantly less model parameters with good accuracy.