Articles by Steven Theeuwen, NXP Semiconductors

LDMOS Transistors in Power Microwave Applications

More than ten years ago LDMOS transistors were introduced as a replacement of bipolar transistors for RF power applications [1,2]. Nowadays LDMOS technology is the leading RF power technology for base station applications, in particular for GSM-EDGE applications at 1 and 2 GHz, WCDMA applications at 2.2 GHz and more recently for WiMax applications around 2.7 GHz and 3.8 GHz.
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