RF Power Semiconductor Devices for Silicon, Gallium Nitride, and Gallium Arsenide High-Power RF Device Technologies

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Publish Date: 08 May 2019
Code: AN-5091
Research Type: Research Report
Pages: 22
RF Power Semiconductor Devices for Silicon, Gallium Nitride, and Gallium Arsenide High-Power RF Device Technologies
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A myriad of 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. Both silicon-based and gallium based devices are covered.
 
 
This application note is a companion narrative to the market data report MD-RFPS-19.