New development trends for silicon RF device technologies

Today more than ever, low cost, high performance RF devices are in high demand due to explosive growth in the wireless communications business. As the RF performance of silicon-based technologies improve, silicon solutions are an obvious choice due to its low cost, high reliability and the ability to integrate other analog and logic functions on-chip. This paper will highlight some of the development efforts that are taking place to improve silicon device technologies for RF and microwave applications. Performance of current state-of-the-art silicon bipolar, MOSFET, TFSOI and SiGe HBTs will be discussed.<
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