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Current RF/Microwave and Device Research Project

Electro-Thermal LDMOSFET Model for RF Power Amplifier Design

In several projects supported by Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems we have developed both analytic and table based large-signal electrothermal models for RF power LDMOSFET. The extraction of the model parameters relied on measured isothermal DC characteristic and S-parameters of arbitrary power MOSFETs at various device temperatures and pulsed IV data. The accuracy of the large-signal models was verified with the design power RF amplifiers. (Siraj Akhtar, Wenhua Dai, Sunyoung Lee, Sukkeun Myoung, Patrick Roblin)

For more info see our ARFTG Dec 2003 talk: PPT



Temperature distribution of LDMOSFET RF power transistor.




Patrick Roblin (roblin@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu)