RF power performance improvement of multi-finger power bipolar transistor by non-uniform emitter finger spacing design without the use of emitter ballasting resistor
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Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

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TN128

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61774012, 61574010)

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    In this paper, the RF power performance and surface temperature distributions for a multi-finger power hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT) with non-uniform emitter finger spacing (NUEFS) without the use of emitter-ballasting-resistor (EBR) are measured, and are compared with a multi-finger power HBT with EBR. The experiment results show that for the multi-finger power HBT with NUEFS, the highest surface temperature is lowered, the uniformity of surface temperature distributions measured by US QFI Infrared TMS is improved, the RF power gain and power-added-efficiency (PAE) are increased compared with the multi-finger power HBT with EBR respectively. These results could be attributed to the improvement in positive thermoelectric feedback and thermal coupling effects among the fingers, and the riddance of adverse impact from emitter-ballasting-resistor used in traditional power HBT.

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ZHANG Zheng, ZHANG Yan-Hua, JIN Dong-Yue, NA Wei-Cong, XIE Hong-Yun. RF power performance improvement of multi-finger power bipolar transistor by non-uniform emitter finger spacing design without the use of emitter ballasting resistor[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2021,40(3):329~333

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  • Received:June 18,2020
  • Revised:March 31,2021
  • Adopted:July 03,2020
  • Online: March 30,2021
  • Published: June 25,2021