Abstract
A production technology for GaAs MMIC's has been developed. In a six-month period, seventy 2-in wafers have been processed for X-band monolithic power and low-noise amplifiers and more than 2000 working chips have been produced. The two-stage power amplifiers have achieved a typical performance of 1.6-w output power with 8-dB associated gain and 20-percent power-added efficiency at 9.5 GHz. The two-stage low-noise amplifiers have consistently achieved 3-dB noise figure with 20-dB associated gain at the same frequency. Improvement of MMIC processing technology implemented in this work has resulted in an average dc chip yield of 15 percent.
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