Abstract

Presently several european companies are developing GaAs based components for millimeterwave applications. State of the art for Europe today is that HEMT devices are available with fmax up to 280GHz, MMIC Schottky mixer/receiver circuits up to 94GHz, 60GHz low noise amplifiers with 10 to 12 dB gain and around 5dB noise figure are demonstrated as well as first MMIC oscillators up to 80GHz.This paper reviews the european technology programmes for the development of III-V based mm-wave components and describes the state of the art.