Agilent Technologies Debuts New ATF-55143 Transistors

Agilent Technologies Ltd. announced the new ATF-55143 low-current, single-voltage, small-signal transistor, which eliminates the need for an additional negative voltage for biasing due to the company's E-pHEMT technology. According to the company, the transistor significantly enhances receiver performance in cellular/PCS and W-CDMA handsets, mobile devices/data-cards, and other low-current wireless receiver applications operating from 450MHz to 6GHz.

The transistor offers very low noise figure, high gain and good linearity. It can also be designed into applications above 2GHz with very small degradation in device performance. Specified at 2GHz biased (2.7V, 10mA), the device exhibits 0.6dB noise figure, 17.7dB associated gain, 24.2dBm output IP3 and 6.5dBm input IP3.

The ATF-55143 E-pHEMT device is priced at $0.93 in 10,000- to 24,999-piece quantities.