Development of a technique for automatic determination of a golden microwave transistor for amplifying applications in a linear mode by frequency characteristics based on measurements on a semiconductor wafer
The article presents a technique for automatic determination of a golden microwave transistor for amplifying applications in a linear mode. The main feature of the purposed technique is the choice of the device simultaneously by its characteristics in the frequency range and DC parameters. Also, the article presents the use of the proposed methodology to search for a golden microwave transistor with the subsequent building of a small-signal model of the selected transistor. That model was used to design a 17.24 GHz low-noise amplifier. The efficiency of the proposed method is confirmed by the results of numerical modeling and experimental study.