Design of High Efficiency Class E Power Amplifiers

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  • Q. Lu
  • A. Sambell
چکیده

This paper presents a new procedure to design of high efficiency class E power amplifiers (PAs) using nonlinear transistors. The active device (MESFET-ATF34143) has been investigated and load harmonic networks have also been designed to match the requirement. By using the new procedure, the power added efficiency (PAE) of PAs could be increased to over 70%. The effect of the stabilized resistors (Rs) has also been investigated. Amplifiers in this paper have been designed using PCB FR4 subtract. A good agreement was obtained between the predicted and practical results.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012