TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Performance of Power Amplifier Integration with BAW Filter on a Silicon-Ceramic Composite and Standard Epoxy/Glass Substrate
AU - Chauhan, V.
AU - Wandji, L. W.
AU - Peng, X.
AU - Silva Cortes, V.
AU - Frank, A.
AU - Fischer, M.
AU - Stehr, U.
AU - Weigel, R.
AU - Hagelauer, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/9/6
Y1 - 2018/9/6
N2 - In radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits for LTE transmitters (Tx), the consideration of the thermal and nonlinear coupling between the Power Amplifier (PA) and adjacent RF filters realized by Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) technology is crucial for reliability and requires special attention. A co-design of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) PA, BAW Tx filter with optimum matching network is created on two substrate technologies. One design utilizes a novel silicon-ceramic (SiCer) platform which combines a stack of low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) layers with a thin silicon wafer in a single composite substrate and the second design uses standard woven glass/epoxy substrate technology. The linear performance of the different substrate technologies are compared with the same layout design. The BAW filter is based on Solidly Mounted Resonators (SMR) electrically coupled in a ladder type topology.
AB - In radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits for LTE transmitters (Tx), the consideration of the thermal and nonlinear coupling between the Power Amplifier (PA) and adjacent RF filters realized by Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) technology is crucial for reliability and requires special attention. A co-design of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) PA, BAW Tx filter with optimum matching network is created on two substrate technologies. One design utilizes a novel silicon-ceramic (SiCer) platform which combines a stack of low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) layers with a thin silicon wafer in a single composite substrate and the second design uses standard woven glass/epoxy substrate technology. The linear performance of the different substrate technologies are compared with the same layout design. The BAW filter is based on Solidly Mounted Resonators (SMR) electrically coupled in a ladder type topology.
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U2 - 10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2018.8457140
DO - 10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2018.8457140
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85057587422
T3 - 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, IMWS-AMP 2018
BT - 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, IMWS-AMP 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, IMWS-AMP 2018
Y2 - 16 July 2018 through 18 July 2018
ER -