A High Efficiency Harmonic Control GaN Power Amplifier
Qian Lin, Cong Lu, Pengfei Zhao, Feng Wu +1
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60% confidenceA high efficiency GaN power amplifier is designed using harmonic control technique, achieving 74.6% maximum drain efficiency and 39.5 dBm output power.
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Abstract
Abstract In order to meet the requirements of the high efficiency for the wireless communication system, this paper introduces a high efficiency power amplifier (PA) based on the harmonic control technique. Compared with other works, this method can realize the second and third-harmonic impedance matching accurately. Besides, to avoid the problem of transmission line with high characteristic impedance in bias network, the π-typed and L-typed structure is utilized. For demonstration, a high efficient PA using CGH40010 GaN HEMT is designed and fabricated. The measured results show that it obtained an output power (P out ) of 39.5 ± 1 dBm, a Gain of 14.5 ± 1 dB, a maximum drain efficiency (DE) of 74.6% within the frequency range of 0.3–1.75 GHz. After comparison, this PA is superior in terms of efficiency and gain and has predominant engineer application.
Key findings
- The proposed method accurately realizes second and third-harmonic impedance matching.
- The π-typed and L-typed structure is utilized to avoid high characteristic impedance in bias network.
- The designed PA outperforms other works in terms of efficiency and gain.
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- Journal
- Research Square
- Year
- 2023