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- Patent Title: Broadband power transistor devices and amplifiers with input-side harmonic termination circuits and methods of manufacture
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Application No.: US15984137Application Date: 2018-05-18
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Publication No.: US10541653B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Ning Zhu , Jeffrey Spencer Roberts , Damon G. Holmes , Jeffrey Kevin Jones
- Applicant: NXP USA, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agent Sherry W. Schumm
- Main IPC: H03F3/191
- IPC: H03F3/191 ; H03F3/16 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F1/08 ; H01L23/66 ; H01L25/16 ; H01L23/00 ; H01L25/00 ; H03F3/21 ; H03F3/213 ; H03F3/195

Abstract:
Embodiments of RF amplifiers and packaged RF amplifier devices each include a transistor with a drain-source capacitance that is relatively low, an input impedance matching circuit, and an input-side harmonic termination circuit. The input impedance matching circuit includes a harmonic termination circuit, which in turn includes a first inductance (a first plurality of bondwires) and a first capacitance coupled in series between the transistor output and a ground reference node. The input impedance matching circuit also includes a second inductance (a second plurality of bondwires), a third inductance (a third plurality of bondwires), and a second capacitance coupled in a T-match configuration between the input lead and the transistor input. The first and second capacitances may be metal-insulator-metal capacitors in an integrated passive device.
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