Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

A class-E CMOS RF power amplifier with cascaded class-D driver amplifier

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Jaemin Jang

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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Division of Electrical Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea

Hongtak Lee,

Hongtak Lee

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Changkun Park,

Changkun Park

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Songcheol Hong,

Songcheol Hong

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Jaemin Jang,

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Jaemin Jang

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Hongtak Lee,

Hongtak Lee

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Changkun Park,

Changkun Park

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Songcheol Hong,

Songcheol Hong

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First published: 20 December 2007

https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.23106

Citations: 6

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Abstract

A 800-MHz power amplifier is designed using a 0.18-μm RF CMOS process. The voltage-combining method is used for power combining. A transmission line transformer on a printed circuit board (PCB) is designed as a power combiner. For the switching mode power amplifier, a cascaded class-D driver amplifier is proposed using a feedback resistor and a DC-blocking capacitor. The power amplifier has an output power of 32.9 dBm and a power-added efficiency of 60.25%. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 470–473, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23106

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