Reference Plane Transformation of Continuous Mode Terminations for Broadband Power Amplifiers
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Sebastian Preis
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Daniel Gruner
Abstract
In this article the behavior of continuous mode amplifiers at different reference planes is discussed using the example of a continuous class-F−1 amplifier mode. The variation of the output impedances and the conversion of the output voltage and current waveforms are analyzed depending on the considered reference plane. For instance, the frequently discussed current source reference plane has a way different impedance characteristic than the accessible lead reference plane. In order to study this aspect, a broadband continuous class-F−1 mode amplifier has been realized using a bare-die GaN-HEMT. From 1.0 to 1.8 GHz, this amplifier attains 44.5–45.2 dBm output power with corresponding drain efficiency of 65–68%.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Laudatio Prof. Groll zum 90. Geburtstag
- Nachruf Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Chaloupka
- Reference Plane Transformation of Continuous Mode Terminations for Broadband Power Amplifiers
- Potential of Coplanar X-band GaN-MMIC Power Amplifiers
- High Directivity Microstrip Coupler with Asymmetric Structure
- Three-Pole Tunable Bandpass Filters With Constant Fractional Bandwidth Using Mixed Comb-line Resonators
- UWB Band-notched Adjustable Antenna Using Concentric Split-ring Slots Structure
- Evaluation of Cathode Heater Assembly for 42 GHz, 200 kW Gyrotron
- Optical Solitons in Magneto-optic Waveguides with Spatio-temporal Dispersion
- Outage Analysis of Dual-hop Cognitive Networks with Relay Selection over Nakagami-m Fading Environment
- A Novel Nonlinear Companding Transform for PAPR Reduction in Lattice-OFDM System
- On the First and the Second Order Statistics of the Capacity of κ-μ Fading Channels
- On the Performance of the Golden Code in the Presence of Channel Estimation Error in Correlated MIMO Rayleigh Fading Channels
- Evaluations of SSC Diversity Receiver over EGK Fading Channels
- New Tone Reservation Technique for Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction
