300 GHz InP HBT amplifier with 10 mW output power
A high-power terahertz solid-state amplifier fabricated using 0.25 μm InP heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology is reported. This amplifier utilies a novel defective-ground four-way balun to combine differential amplifier chains for a total output device periphery of 40 μm. A significant amount of power of ∼10 mW is obtained at 305 GHz with better than 20 dB small-signal gain.