Geo-Electrical Design of Wideband, Efficient Class-F Power Amplifiers

Youngcheol PARK  Hyunchul KU  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E98-C   No.10   pp.987-990
Publication Date: 2015/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E98.C.987
Type of Manuscript: BRIEF PAPER
Category: Electronic Components
Keyword: 
efficiency,  power amplifier,  transmission line,  wideband,  

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Summary: 
For realizing wideband class-F power amplifiers (PA), geo-electrical analysis methods are introduced to determine the best design parameters in a simpler way than relying on computer-guided optimization. The fabricated class-F PA at 1.9 GHz demonstrated a peak efficiency of 80.5% and a bandwidth of 750 MHz for an efficiency of more than 63%. It is presumed that the optimization increased the bandwidth by 10%.