A 1.9-GHz Triple-Mode Class-E Power Amplifier for a Polar Transmitter

Author

Park, Changkun ; Kim, Younsuk ; Kim, Haksun ; Hong, Songcheol

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon

Volume

17

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

150

Abstract

A 1.9-GHz CMOS power amplifier for polar transmitters was implemented with a 0.25-mum radio frequency CMOS process. All the matching components, including the input and output transformers, were fully integrated. The concepts of mode locking and adaptive load were applied in order to increase the efficiency and dynamic range of the amplifier. The amplifier achieved a drain efficiency of 33% at a maximum output power of 28dBm. The measured dynamic range was 34dB for a supply voltage that ranged from 0.7 to 3.3V. The measured improvement of the low power efficiency was 140% at an output power of 16dBm

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC power amplifiers; transmitters; 0.25 micron; 0.7 to 3.3 V; 1.9 GHz; CMOS power amplifier; adaptive load; class-E power amplifier; drain efficiency; dynamic range; mode locking; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; polar transmitter; power efficiency; CMOS process; Dynamic range; Laser mode locking; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Transformers; Adaptive load; GSM; class-E; dynamic range; mode locking; polar transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2006.890345

Filename

4079629