Abstract: This article examines the electrical-thermal-stress effects of a high-power handling limiter operating at DC-6 GHz, utilizing gallium arsenide positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) technology ...
What is a PIN avalanche photodiode (APD)? What is a PIN photodiode? How to characterize avalanche breakdown in GaN. Major differences exist between a PIN photodiode and an avalanche photodiode (APD), ...
This line of broadband diode limiters helps protect those sensitive front-end components, including low-noise amplifiers, that have been added to increase a receiver’s sensitivity. Often taken for ...
CIRCUIT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) simulators now offer many capabilities to make software prototyping successful, including accurate models. To provide an example of how such models can assist the ...
Abstract: PIN limiter diodes are primarily used for protection from excess RF power in RF circuits. These diodes are positioned onboard at the I/O lines of the RF circuits. If an ESD event occurs, the ...
Both electromechanical and semiconductor switches are proven technologies used in the control and routing of RF signals. The use of mechanical switches can be justified in precision test equipment, ...
Front-end limiter circuits using Schottky and PIN diodes can provide needed protection in communications and other RF systems. However, designers still must deal with the upper-frequency limit problem ...
Designed to replace complicated pin diode-based designs, PE4272 and PE4273 SPDT CATV switches offer an insertion loss of 0.50 dB at 1GHz and P1dB compression point of 32 dBm. The parts draw 8 µA at 3 ...