A new non-linear method for design and analysis of solid state power amplifiers is presented and applied to an aluminum gallium nitride, gallium nitride (AlGaN-GaN) high electron-mobility transistor (HEMTs) on silicon-carbide (SiC) substrate for Ku band (12.4 13.6 GHz) applications. With combining output power of 8 transistors, maximum output power of 46.3 dBm (42.6 W), PAE of 43% and linear ga...

The RF power amplifier (PA) is one of the critical components in the 802.11 transceivers, and it is expected to provide a suitable output power at a very good gain with high efficiency and linearity. However, present-day telecommunication device technology is not well suited to the requirements of optical data communication. Digital CMOS is the most used technology in RF applications, nowadays;...

In this paper we propose the Peak to Average Power ratio reduction (PAPR) in OFDM using adapting coding technique with pre-distortion method to decrease the nonlinear distortion and to improve the power efficiency of the non-linear high power amplifier (HPA). In the proposed method adaptive coding is used for error correction as well as PAPR reduction. The pre-distorter improves the bit error r...

This paper presents the technique to dynamically enhance the power efficiency of PWM class-D amplifier over a wide range of modulation indexes. The power stage of amplifier is segmented into several small stages and selectively enabled according to the power demand (i.e. modulation indexes). The capability of power delivery is dynamically adjusted to minimize the power loss in case of different...

The class-E amplifier [1]-[11] is remarked as the next candidate of digital wireless power transmitters. Non-switching power amplifiers suffer from low power-conversion efficiency due to their inherent power loss in high back off area. Hence, switching power amplifiers such as class-D and E are remarked as a remedy for improving power-conversion efficiency and prolonging battery lifetime of por...

Abstract A hybrid switching amplitude modulator for class-E2 EDGE polar transmitters is proposed. To achieve both high-efficiency and high-speed, it consists of a wideband buffered linear amplifier as a voltage source and a hysteresis-controlled switching amplifier as a dependent current source. The novel linear amplifier has a high current driving capability of approximately 160mA with a bandw...

A broadband power amplifier designed and implemented in Doherty configuration is illustrated in this paper. Both input and output networks adopt the broadband matching topology. Additionally a compensation network, consisting of a series transmission line shunted with a capacitance, is set behind the peak amplifier to avoid in-band power leakage in the low-power section while at the cost of pea...

With the advancement of CMOS technology, the trend is to design transceivers using this technology with the aim of achieving full integration and reduced system cost. The power amplifier (PA) being one of the most important blocks of the wireless communication system is no exception. The aim of this work is to provide the study that allow the design of a singleended RF CMOS Class-E power amplif...

A Class-E/Fodd high power amplifier (PA) using the distributed active transformer (DAT) is demonstrated at 29MHz. The DAT combines the output power from four VDMOS push-pull pairs. The zero voltage switching (ZVS) condition is investigated and modified for the Class-E/Fodd amplifier with a non-ideal output transformer. All lumped elements including the DAT and the transistor package are modeled...

Class-E amplifier has the potential to deliver high efficiency required for the next generation wireless systems. In this journal, we discuss a novel load pull analysis technique to characterize the efficiency performance of Class-E amplifier in an outphasing power combining scheme. Class-E amplifier is not an ideal current or voltage source as is required for the traditional analysis of outpha...