This paper shows how intermodulation distortion, IMD, sweet spots can be used as a practically meaningful technology to design highly linear microwave power amplifiers. It starts by reviewing the physical origins of these points of large signal to nonlinear distortion ratio, distinguishing the ones uniquely determined by the active device’s quiescent point – small-signal IMD sweet spots – from ...

Efficient RF power amplifiers used in third generation systems require linearization in order to reduce adjacent channel inter-modulation distortion, without sacrificing efficiency. Digital baseband predistortion is a highly cost-effective way to linearize power amplifiers (PAs), but most existing architectures assume that the PA has a memoryless nonlinearity. For wider bandwidth applications s...

In this paper, we propose the idea of using transimpedance amplifiers, in lieu operational amplifiers (OAs) or transconductance (OTAs) to design capacitively coupled AC amplifiers. The is demonstrated with a current feedback amplifier (CFOA) as an active element, which actually architecture consisting voltage buffers and copiers (mirrors). This last characteristic further exploited make corner ...

1. Introduction With the diversifying functions and increasing traffic of recent satellite communications, the amplifiers installed in satellites must provide higher power and improved efficiency. Commonly-used satellite-mounted amplifiers are, in general, either traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) or solid state power amplifiers (SSPAs) using gallium arsenide field-effect transistors (GaAs ...

The most conventional approach of controlling magnetic forces in active magnetic bearings (AMBs) is through current feedback amplifiers: transconductance. This enables the operation of the AMB to be understood in terms of a relatively simple current-based model as has been widely reported on in the literature. The alternative notion of using transpermeance amplifiers, which approximate the feed...

Amplifiers are ubiquitous in electronics and play a fundamental role in a wide range of scientific measurements. From a user’s perspective, an ideal amplifier has very low noise, operates over a broad frequency range, and has a high dynamic range it is capable of handling strong signals with little distortion. Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain all of these characteristics simultaneously....

To perform correct measurements on a true digital audio amplifier (TDAA), it is important to understand the characteristics of the device, especially in comparison with conventional linear amplifiers such as class-A and class-AB. This report provides an overview of TI’s proprietary digital amplification technology and information about how measurements on TDAA’s must be performed in order to ob...

We report an experimental study of ultra-high-frequency chaotic dynamics generated in a delaydynamical electronic device. It consists of a transistor-based nonlinearity, commercially-available amplifiers, and a transmission-line for feedback. The feedback is band-limited, allowing tuning of the characteristic time-scales of both the periodic and high-dimensional chaotic oscillations that can be...

The general utility of the operational amplifier is derived from the fact that it is intended for use in a feedback loop whose feedback properties determine the feed-forward characteristics of the amplifier and loop combination. To suit it for this usage, the ideal operational amplifier would have infinite input impedance, zero output impedance, infinite gain and an openloop 3 dB point at infin...

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