A Broadband High-Efficiency Hybrid Continuous Inverse Power Amplifier Based on Extended Admittance Space

Chun Ni,Jiabing Zhu,Zhongxiang Zhang,Liang Zhang,Mingsheng Chen,Hui Wang,Jing Liu,Xianliang Wu

doi:10.3389/fphy.2021.648127

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.648127

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Abstract

A novel hybrid continuous inverse power amplifier (PA) that is constituted by a continuum of PA modes from the continuous inverse class-F to the continuous inverse class-B/J is proposed, and a detailed mathematical analysis is presented. The fundamental and second harmonic admittance spaces of the hybrid PA proposed in this article are analyzed mathematically. By introducing the phase shift parameter into the current waveform formula of the hybrid continuous inverse PA, the design space of the fundamental and second harmonic admittance is expanded, further increasing the operating bandwidth. The efficiency of the amplifier under different parameter conditions is calculated. In order to verify this method, a broadband high-efficiency PA is designed and fabricated. The drain voltage and current waveforms of the amplifier are extracted for analysis. The experimental measured results show a 60.7–71.5% drain efficiency across the frequency band of 0.5–2.5 GHz (133% bandwidth), and the designed PA can obtain an 11.8–13.9 dB gain in the interesting frequency range. The measured results are confirmed to be in good agreement with theory and simulations.

Highlights

RF power amplifiers are widely used in various wireless communication systems
A high-efficiency and wideband hybrid continuous invert power amplifier (PA) with phase shift parameters is presented in this article, the current equation of which has been rebuilt to gain greater design space
It is shown that the fundamental and second harmonic admittances change with the introduction of the phase shift parameters

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INTRODUCTION

RF power amplifiers are widely used in various wireless communication systems. With the rapid growth of modern mobile communication services, the requirements of low consumption, wide bandwidth, high efficiency, and small size are increasing rapidly [1,2,3,4,5]. Based on the new theoretical model, the current and voltage waveforms of the amplifier are reconstructed so that the design space of the fundamental admittance of the mixed continuous inverse PA is expanded. Simulation and experimental results show that the drain efficiency of this PA is 60.7–71.5%, and there is an output power of 39.8–41.9 dBm in the target band from 0.5 to 2.5 GHz. The drain voltage of the proposed PA is the same as that of the traditional inverse continuous modes, and the waveform is similar to that of the square wave [24], as shown below: VDC (θ). The drain efficiency (DE) of the modified hybrid inverse continuous modes can be calculated based on Eqs 3, 6, 12, and 13 as follows: Pdc ids,dc × vds,dcdt,.

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