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Linearity of Millimeter-Wave Graded-Channel GaN HEMTs under Quadrature Amplitude Modulations
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  • Jeong Moon,
  • Joel Wong,
  • Robert Grabar,
  • Chuong Dao,
  • Erdem Arkun,
  • Joe Tai
Jeong Moon
HRL Laboratories LLC

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Joel Wong
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Robert Grabar
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Chuong Dao
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Erdem Arkun
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Joe Tai
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Abstract

We report large-signal linearity and power-added-efficiency of high-speed graded-channel GaN-based HEMTs at 30 GHz under 64-QAM and 256-QAM at 6V or less operations. These graded-channel GaN HEMTs show the fT of 160 GHz and exhibit a peak power-added-efficiency of 55% at 30 GHz. Under the 64-QAM and 256-QAM, the error-vector-magnitude (EVM) of less than 5 % was measured at the average output power of 16 dBm, about 3 dB backed off from the saturated output power.
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