EM simulation assisted parameter extraction for the modeling of transferred-substrate InP HBTs

Abstract

In this paper an electromagnetic (EM) simulation assisted parameters extraction procedure is demonstrated for accurate modeling of down-scaled transferred-substrate InP HBTs. The external parasitic network associated with via transitions and device electrodes is carefully extracted from calibrated 3D EM simulations up to 325 GHz. Following an on-wafer multi-line Through-Reflect-Line (TRL) calibration procedure, the external parasitic network is de-embedded from the transistor measurements and the active device parameters are extracted in a reliable way. The small-signal model structure augmented with the distributed parasitic network is verified against measured S-parameters up to 110 GHz.