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Distributed Amplifier with Control of Stability Using Varactors  

Chu Kyong-Tae (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
Jeong Jin-Ho (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego)
Kwon Young-Woo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose the control method of output impedance of each cascode unit cell of distributed amplifier by connecting varactors in the gate-terminal of common gate. Compared to common source unit cell, cascode unit cell has many advantages such as high gain and high output impedance as well as negative resistance loading. But if the transistor model which is used in design is inaccurate and process parameter is changed, oscillation sometimes can occur at band edge in which the gain start to drop. Therefore, we need control circuit which can prevent oscillation, although the circuit has already fabricated, and varactor connected to gate-terminal of common gate of cascode gain cell can play that part. Measured result of fabricated distributed amplifier shows the capability of contol of gain characteristic by adjusting of value of varactors, this can guarantee the stability of the circuit. The gain is $8.92\pm0.82dB$ over 49 GHz, the group delay is $\pm9.3 psec$ over 41 GHz. All transistor which has $0.15{\mu}m$ gate length is GaAs based p-HEMT, and distributed amplifier is put together with 4 stages.
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Distributed Amplifier; Varactor; Stability;
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