Technologies for Low-Noise Amplifiers in the Millimeter-Wave Regime

This chapter expands the research contextualization elaborated in previous chapters, towards the millimeter-wave device technologies. It is divided into two parts. The first part conducts research into solid-state device technologies that meet the requirements for millimeter-wave LNA applications, namely HEMT, CMOS/BiCMOS and HBT devices. The second part focuses on transistor modeling in different technologies: even though this might appear to be a separate topic, modeling is closely related to transistor technology.

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