A 67% PAE, 100 W GaN power amplifier with on-chip harmonic tuning circuits for C-band space applications

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العنوان: A 67% PAE, 100 W GaN power amplifier with on-chip harmonic tuning circuits for C-band space applications
المؤلفون: Akihiro Shima, Seiki Goto, Yoshinori Kittaka, Shinichi Miwa, Yoshihiro Tsukahara, Masaki Kohno, Yoshitaka Kamo, Toshihiko Tanii, Takashi Yamasaki
المصدر: 2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium.
بيانات النشر: IEEE, 2011.
سنة النشر: 2011
مصطلحات موضوعية: Power-added efficiency, Engineering, FET amplifier, business.industry, Amplifier, RF power amplifier, Electrical engineering, Power bandwidth, Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY, Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS, Linear amplifier, Instrumentation amplifier, business, Direct-coupled amplifier
الوصف: This paper describes a high efficiency and high output power GaN power amplifier for C-band space applications. The amplifier uses on-chip harmonic tuned FETs to improve dc-to-rf conversion efficiency. A 2nd harmonic input tuning circuit is incorporated into each unit on-chip FET cell and realizes high precise control of 2nd harmonic input impedance. In addition, 2nd and 3rd harmonic output impedances are optimized with external output matching circuits. A 100 W power amplifier with 4-chips achieves a 67.0% PAE (72.4% drain efficiency) at 3.7 GHz under CW operating conditions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest efficiency of C-band power amplifiers ever reported with over 100 W output power.
DOI: 10.1109/mwsym.2011.5972673
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::b8c1d947d4b39b258c7b3262989b6803
https://doi.org/10.1109/mwsym.2011.5972673
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....b8c1d947d4b39b258c7b3262989b6803
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
DOI:10.1109/mwsym.2011.5972673