On 19 Apr 2015 04:35:07 -0700, Winfield Hill
<hill@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>John Larkin wrote...
>>
>> FDC2612 is 200 volts and very fast.
>
> Would the FDC2512 be faster? It's rated at 150V
> and has similar capacitance, but half the Rds(on).
> And it can switch with a considerably-lower Vgs,
> conducts 2A at Vgs = 3.7V compared to 5.4V. Both
> show a spec'd required Qg of 8nC at Vgs = 10V, but
> the '2512 can be fully switched at 6V, taking 5nC.
>
> Or is lower Rds(on) not helpful?
Too much theory for me. We needed to make 100 volts into 50 ohms,
through a transmission-line transformer, and we tried a bunch of fets.
A few FDC2612s in parallel worked great, with ca 1 ns edges.
2N7002s work fine at 60 volts, if you pick the right manufacturer. The
data sheets may be the same, but the parts sure aren't.
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Reply by Winfield Hill●April 19, 20152015-04-19
John Larkin wrote...
>
> FDC2612 is 200 volts and very fast.
Would the FDC2512 be faster? It's rated at 150V
and has similar capacitance, but half the Rds(on).
And it can switch with a considerably-lower Vgs,
conducts 2A at Vgs = 3.7V compared to 5.4V. Both
show a spec'd required Qg of 8nC at Vgs = 10V, but
the '2512 can be fully switched at 6V, taking 5nC.
Or is lower Rds(on) not helpful?
--
Thanks,
- Win
Reply by John Larkin●April 17, 20152015-04-17
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:55:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:
>On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 11:22:00 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:18:46 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
>> <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:07:48 -0700 (PDT), the renowned
>> >dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>Rohm has all sorts of 1.0Vth MOSFETs, even 2.5A P-ch parts for under ten cents.
>> >
>> >Nice to see some options that trade off higher Rds(on) for input
>> >capacitance, but still have modern low Vgs(th) in the 1V range.
>> >
>> >Last time I needed one, all I could find readily was the little guys
>> >that can switch amperes at low voltage but have high gate capacitance.
>> >
>> >--sp
>>
>> The 2N7002 still looks good for a lot of uses.
>
>Thankfully--I've still got two reels in the workshop for hobby-stuff.
>
>Nice fusible ESD-detectors, too.
>
>Cheers,
>James
I don't think I've ever zapped one. I certainly aren't careful
handling them. Must be the humidity.
They do switch fast. Most "modern" SOT23s have a low Rds-on and a lot
of capacitance, so 2N7002 looks pretty good there.
FDC2612 is 200 volts and very fast.
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Reply by ●April 17, 20152015-04-17
On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 11:22:00 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:18:46 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
> <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:07:48 -0700 (PDT), the renowned
> >dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Rohm has all sorts of 1.0Vth MOSFETs, even 2.5A P-ch parts for under ten cents.
> >
> >Nice to see some options that trade off higher Rds(on) for input
> >capacitance, but still have modern low Vgs(th) in the 1V range.
> >
> >Last time I needed one, all I could find readily was the little guys
> >that can switch amperes at low voltage but have high gate capacitance.
> >
> >--sp
>
> The 2N7002 still looks good for a lot of uses.
Thankfully--I've still got two reels in the workshop for hobby-stuff.
Nice fusible ESD-detectors, too.
Cheers,
James
Reply by Phil Hobbs●April 17, 20152015-04-17
On 04/17/2015 03:04 PM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:05:57 -0400, Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>
>> On 04/17/2015 01:30 PM, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:31:54 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie
>>> <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <mgsvia5v97j5o0fsahoroa1jljtuuh301i@4ax.com>,
>>>> John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Robert Baer
>>>>> <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:31:14 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cool part. 20V enhancement N-ch MOSFET.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Vgs.th(100uA)<= 1.0V
>>>>>>>> capacitances ~1/5th of a 2n7002 at 1V.
>>>>>>>> ESD protected.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://rohmfs.rohm.com/en/products/databook/datasheet/discrete/transistor/
>>>>>>>> mosfet/rum001l02.pdf
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> James Arthur
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That series gate resistor may trash the speed. The data sheet suggests
>>>>>>> that it does.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've made a pulser that uses two 2N7002s in parallel to drive a 1:1
>>>>>>> transmission line transformer. It will make a 50 volt pulse into 50
>>>>>>> ohms with rise/fall times below 2 ns. You've just got to drive the
>>>>>>> gates hard.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, isn't the resistor in the wrong place? Like external gate pin,
>>>>>> resistor, zener?
>>>>>> That way there is less chance of frapping the protecton zener.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. But the resistor itself might get vaporized or punched through by
>>>>> an ESD pulse. So, why have the resistor at all?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about this one, but I've seen TO-220 MOSFETs oscillate by
>>>> doing nothing more than soldering three ceramic capacitors across the
>>>> leads, applying a high DS voltage, and biasing the gate a tiny bit.
>>>
>>> Especially if the source is not grounded. Bipolar emitter followers
>>> love to oscillate, too. I tend to blame the oscillation on wire bond
>>> inductances, but that's conjecture on my part. A series gate or base
>>> resistor is the usual fix.
>>
>> With the two lags (from C_GS and C_DG), resistance in the source turns
>> into negative resistance at the gate. You need a big enough series
>> resistor to make the net resistance seen by the gate positive.
>>
>> I'm currently building a 200-400 MHz low noise TIA using one of those
>> nice Avago ATF55143 e-pHEMTs cascoded by a BFP640 40 GHz SiGe.
>
> We love those Avago e-phemts. We can drive them on/off from ECL. The
> bigger ones make nice laser drivers.
>
>
>>
>> The transconductance is about 3k, not bad for a single stage at that
>> frequency. (Well, two stages technically--there's also a BFT92A emitter
>> follower driving the coax.)
>>
>> Interestingly, its stability is limited by the capacitance of the 10-ohm
>> bead in the cascode's base. It works great at bias currents below 6 mA,
>> but much above there, it wants to oscillate at 6 GHz. Interestingly
>> this is just what LTspice predicts if the capacitance across the bead is
>> 0.2 pF, which is a plausible value.
>>
>> Still not bad for a hand-wired protoboard.
>> <http://electrooptical.net/www/sed/sed.html#e-pHEMT_PDamp>
>>
>
> It might work better as a real surface-mount circuit on a multilayer
> board. It will certainly work different!
You got that right. I didn't have time to send it out--the electronics
for this gizmo have to be working by Monday.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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Reply by John Larkin●April 17, 20152015-04-17
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:05:57 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>On 04/17/2015 01:30 PM, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:31:54 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie
>> <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <mgsvia5v97j5o0fsahoroa1jljtuuh301i@4ax.com>,
>>> John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Robert Baer
>>>> <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:31:14 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cool part. 20V enhancement N-ch MOSFET.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Vgs.th(100uA)<= 1.0V
>>>>>>> capacitances ~1/5th of a 2n7002 at 1V.
>>>>>>> ESD protected.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://rohmfs.rohm.com/en/products/databook/datasheet/discrete/transistor/
>>>>>>> mosfet/rum001l02.pdf
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> James Arthur
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That series gate resistor may trash the speed. The data sheet suggests
>>>>>> that it does.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've made a pulser that uses two 2N7002s in parallel to drive a 1:1
>>>>>> transmission line transformer. It will make a 50 volt pulse into 50
>>>>>> ohms with rise/fall times below 2 ns. You've just got to drive the
>>>>>> gates hard.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Also, isn't the resistor in the wrong place? Like external gate pin,
>>>>> resistor, zener?
>>>>> That way there is less chance of frapping the protecton zener.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. But the resistor itself might get vaporized or punched through by
>>>> an ESD pulse. So, why have the resistor at all?
>>>
>>> I don't know about this one, but I've seen TO-220 MOSFETs oscillate by
>>> doing nothing more than soldering three ceramic capacitors across the
>>> leads, applying a high DS voltage, and biasing the gate a tiny bit.
>>
>> Especially if the source is not grounded. Bipolar emitter followers
>> love to oscillate, too. I tend to blame the oscillation on wire bond
>> inductances, but that's conjecture on my part. A series gate or base
>> resistor is the usual fix.
>
>With the two lags (from C_GS and C_DG), resistance in the source turns
>into negative resistance at the gate. You need a big enough series
>resistor to make the net resistance seen by the gate positive.
>
>I'm currently building a 200-400 MHz low noise TIA using one of those
>nice Avago ATF55143 e-pHEMTs cascoded by a BFP640 40 GHz SiGe.
We love those Avago e-phemts. We can drive them on/off from ECL. The
bigger ones make nice laser drivers.
>
>The transconductance is about 3k, not bad for a single stage at that
>frequency. (Well, two stages technically--there's also a BFT92A emitter
>follower driving the coax.)
>
>Interestingly, its stability is limited by the capacitance of the 10-ohm
>bead in the cascode's base. It works great at bias currents below 6 mA,
>but much above there, it wants to oscillate at 6 GHz. Interestingly
>this is just what LTspice predicts if the capacitance across the bead is
>0.2 pF, which is a plausible value.
>
>Still not bad for a hand-wired protoboard.
><http://electrooptical.net/www/sed/sed.html#e-pHEMT_PDamp>
>
It might work better as a real surface-mount circuit on a multilayer
board. It will certainly work different!
--
John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement
jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Reply by Phil Hobbs●April 17, 20152015-04-17
On 04/17/2015 01:30 PM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:31:54 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie
> <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
>
>> In article <mgsvia5v97j5o0fsahoroa1jljtuuh301i@4ax.com>,
>> John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Robert Baer
>>> <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> John Larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:31:14 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Cool part. 20V enhancement N-ch MOSFET.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vgs.th(100uA)<= 1.0V
>>>>>> capacitances ~1/5th of a 2n7002 at 1V.
>>>>>> ESD protected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://rohmfs.rohm.com/en/products/databook/datasheet/discrete/transistor/
>>>>>> mosfet/rum001l02.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> James Arthur
>>>>>
>>>>> That series gate resistor may trash the speed. The data sheet suggests
>>>>> that it does.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've made a pulser that uses two 2N7002s in parallel to drive a 1:1
>>>>> transmission line transformer. It will make a 50 volt pulse into 50
>>>>> ohms with rise/fall times below 2 ns. You've just got to drive the
>>>>> gates hard.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Also, isn't the resistor in the wrong place? Like external gate pin,
>>>> resistor, zener?
>>>> That way there is less chance of frapping the protecton zener.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. But the resistor itself might get vaporized or punched through by
>>> an ESD pulse. So, why have the resistor at all?
>>
>> I don't know about this one, but I've seen TO-220 MOSFETs oscillate by
>> doing nothing more than soldering three ceramic capacitors across the
>> leads, applying a high DS voltage, and biasing the gate a tiny bit.
>
> Especially if the source is not grounded. Bipolar emitter followers
> love to oscillate, too. I tend to blame the oscillation on wire bond
> inductances, but that's conjecture on my part. A series gate or base
> resistor is the usual fix.
With the two lags (from C_GS and C_DG), resistance in the source turns
into negative resistance at the gate. You need a big enough series
resistor to make the net resistance seen by the gate positive.
I'm currently building a 200-400 MHz low noise TIA using one of those
nice Avago ATF55143 e-pHEMTs cascoded by a BFP640 40 GHz SiGe.
The transconductance is about 3k, not bad for a single stage at that
frequency. (Well, two stages technically--there's also a BFT92A emitter
follower driving the coax.)
Interestingly, its stability is limited by the capacitance of the 10-ohm
bead in the cascode's base. It works great at bias currents below 6 mA,
but much above there, it wants to oscillate at 6 GHz. Interestingly
this is just what LTspice predicts if the capacitance across the bead is
0.2 pF, which is a plausible value.
Still not bad for a hand-wired protoboard.
<http://electrooptical.net/www/sed/sed.html#e-pHEMT_PDamp>
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
Reply by Jim Thompson●April 17, 20152015-04-17
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:30:46 -0700, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:31:54 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie
><mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
>
>>In article <mgsvia5v97j5o0fsahoroa1jljtuuh301i@4ax.com>,
>> John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Robert Baer
>>> <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >John Larkin wrote:
>>> >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:31:14 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Cool part. 20V enhancement N-ch MOSFET.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Vgs.th(100uA)<= 1.0V
>>> >>> capacitances ~1/5th of a 2n7002 at 1V.
>>> >>> ESD protected.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> http://rohmfs.rohm.com/en/products/databook/datasheet/discrete/transistor/
>>> >>> mosfet/rum001l02.pdf
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Cheers,
>>> >>> James Arthur
>>> >>
>>> >> That series gate resistor may trash the speed. The data sheet suggests
>>> >> that it does.
>>> >>
>>> >> I've made a pulser that uses two 2N7002s in parallel to drive a 1:1
>>> >> transmission line transformer. It will make a 50 volt pulse into 50
>>> >> ohms with rise/fall times below 2 ns. You've just got to drive the
>>> >> gates hard.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> > Also, isn't the resistor in the wrong place? Like external gate pin,
>>> >resistor, zener?
>>> > That way there is less chance of frapping the protecton zener.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Yes. But the resistor itself might get vaporized or punched through by
>>> an ESD pulse. So, why have the resistor at all?
>>
>>I don't know about this one, but I've seen TO-220 MOSFETs oscillate by
>>doing nothing more than soldering three ceramic capacitors across the
>>leads, applying a high DS voltage, and biasing the gate a tiny bit.
>
>Especially if the source is not grounded. Bipolar emitter followers
>love to oscillate, too. I tend to blame the oscillation on wire bond
>inductances, but that's conjecture on my part. A series gate or base
>resistor is the usual fix.
They oscillate because the impedance viewed into the base is negative
under certain levels of emitter load capacitance.
...Jim Thompson
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Reply by John Larkin●April 17, 20152015-04-17
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:31:54 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie
<mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
>In article <mgsvia5v97j5o0fsahoroa1jljtuuh301i@4ax.com>,
> John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Robert Baer
>> <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> >John Larkin wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:31:14 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Cool part. 20V enhancement N-ch MOSFET.
>> >>>
>> >>> Vgs.th(100uA)<= 1.0V
>> >>> capacitances ~1/5th of a 2n7002 at 1V.
>> >>> ESD protected.
>> >>>
>> >>> http://rohmfs.rohm.com/en/products/databook/datasheet/discrete/transistor/
>> >>> mosfet/rum001l02.pdf
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> James Arthur
>> >>
>> >> That series gate resistor may trash the speed. The data sheet suggests
>> >> that it does.
>> >>
>> >> I've made a pulser that uses two 2N7002s in parallel to drive a 1:1
>> >> transmission line transformer. It will make a 50 volt pulse into 50
>> >> ohms with rise/fall times below 2 ns. You've just got to drive the
>> >> gates hard.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Also, isn't the resistor in the wrong place? Like external gate pin,
>> >resistor, zener?
>> > That way there is less chance of frapping the protecton zener.
>> >
>>
>> Yes. But the resistor itself might get vaporized or punched through by
>> an ESD pulse. So, why have the resistor at all?
>
>I don't know about this one, but I've seen TO-220 MOSFETs oscillate by
>doing nothing more than soldering three ceramic capacitors across the
>leads, applying a high DS voltage, and biasing the gate a tiny bit.
Especially if the source is not grounded. Bipolar emitter followers
love to oscillate, too. I tend to blame the oscillation on wire bond
inductances, but that's conjecture on my part. A series gate or base
resistor is the usual fix.
--
John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement
jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Reply by Kevin McMurtrie●April 17, 20152015-04-17
In article <mgsvia5v97j5o0fsahoroa1jljtuuh301i@4ax.com>,
John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Robert Baer
> <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
>
> >John Larkin wrote:
> >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:31:14 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Cool part. 20V enhancement N-ch MOSFET.
> >>>
> >>> Vgs.th(100uA)<= 1.0V
> >>> capacitances ~1/5th of a 2n7002 at 1V.
> >>> ESD protected.
> >>>
> >>> http://rohmfs.rohm.com/en/products/databook/datasheet/discrete/transistor/
> >>> mosfet/rum001l02.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> James Arthur
> >>
> >> That series gate resistor may trash the speed. The data sheet suggests
> >> that it does.
> >>
> >> I've made a pulser that uses two 2N7002s in parallel to drive a 1:1
> >> transmission line transformer. It will make a 50 volt pulse into 50
> >> ohms with rise/fall times below 2 ns. You've just got to drive the
> >> gates hard.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Also, isn't the resistor in the wrong place? Like external gate pin,
> >resistor, zener?
> > That way there is less chance of frapping the protecton zener.
> >
>
> Yes. But the resistor itself might get vaporized or punched through by
> an ESD pulse. So, why have the resistor at all?
I don't know about this one, but I've seen TO-220 MOSFETs oscillate by
doing nothing more than soldering three ceramic capacitors across the
leads, applying a high DS voltage, and biasing the gate a tiny bit. It
hisses and gets nice and warm. Maybe this MOSFET would be fast enough
to have similar problems with it's stubby little legs.
Or maybe the resistor symbolizes something that burns out when the gate
drive is too high.
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