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Extensive electronic and optoelectronic measurements of discrete devices are presented, and details of the fabrication processes developed are discussed. The device models used in the circuit design of the photoreceiver are discussed in detail. The performance of the fabricated photoreceiver circuits is reported and compared to the results of circuit simulations.","The photoreceiver circuit designed and fabricated is based on a transimpedance amplifier topology with an active feedback resistor implemented using a common-gate HEMT. The HEMTs used in the photoreceiver are 0.2 $\\mu$m gate length devices with transit frequency $\\rm (f\\sb{t})$ of 115 GHz and maximum frequency of oscillation $\\rm (f\\sb{\\max})$ in excess of 150 GHz. The photoreceivers exhibited a 3 dB optoelectronic bandwidth of up to 18.5 GHz. 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