RF Power Semiconductors: Silicon, Gallium Nitride, Gallium Arsenide, and Silicon Carbide High-Power RF Devices
Myriad products and services utilize RF power amplifiers in their transmitter circuitry: wireless infrastructure for cell phones and other mobile devices; radio and television broadcasting; medical equipment such as MRI machines; materials curing that includes carpet fibers and plywood; radar; space and satellite communications; police and fire radios; and military communications and electronics of all kinds. Most of these transmitters use semiconductors in the RF power amplifier output stages. Even modern, extremely high-power broadcast transmitters that traditionally have used large vacuum tubes in their RF sections have finally begun to use solid-state devices.
This study examines RF power semiconductor devices that have power outputs of greater than three watts and operate at frequencies of up to 4 GHz, which represent the bulk of applications in use today. In addition, an enhanced section on gallium nitride devices has been added this year.
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- Publish Date 3Q 2016
- Research Type Research Report Report
- Code RR-RFPS-16
- Pages 23
- Tables 18
- Charts 18
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