  Structure-preserving linearly implicit exponential integrators are
constructed for Hamiltonian partial differential equations with linear constant
damping. Linearly implicit integrators are derived by polarizing the polynomial
terms of the Hamiltonian function and portioning out the nonlinearly of
consecutive time steps. They require only a solution of one linear system at
each time step. Therefore they are computationally more advantageous than
implicit integrators. We also construct an exponential version of the
well-known one-step Kahan's method by polarizing the quadratic vector field.
These integrators are applied to one-dimensional damped Burger's,
Korteweg-de-Vries, and nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations. Preservation of the
dissipation rate of linear and quadratic conformal invariants and the
Hamiltonian is illustrated by numerical experiments.
