Electrical engineering

Transistor

CMOS

Noise (video)

Noise figure

Image (mathematics)

Differential amplifier

Field-effect transistor

Engineering

Low-noise amplifier

MESFET

Voltage

Automatic gain control

Artificial intelligence

Amplifier

Materials science

FET amplifier

Electronic engineering

Converters

Microwave

Computer science

Optoelectronics

Telecommunications

Dynamic range

A low-noise single-gate GaAs MESFET has been successfully used to provide a 30-dB AGC range for low-noise amplifiers in down-converters used in microwave communication systems from 4 to 11 GHz. Threshold NF is not affected. With 30 dB of AGC, the FET amplifier NF is 18 dB.

30 dB of AGC from an FET