This paper studies the behaviors of power amplifier（PA） driven by a single-carrier continuous wave（CW） signal and a two-carrier CW signal both in theory and simulation, and explains why the traditional dual-band P...This paper studies the behaviors of power amplifier（PA） driven by a single-carrier continuous wave（CW） signal and a two-carrier CW signal both in theory and simulation, and explains why the traditional dual-band PA failed to perform satisfactory results when a two-carrier CW signal is applied to, called concurrently. Besides that, an evaluation standard of concurrent dual-band PA was presented to value its performance. Solution was given with design and fabrication of a concurrent 1.85 GHz/2.65 GHz class F PA, employing a 10 W GaN HEMT device from Cree, CGH40010, whose measurement shows the saturated output power is 40.6 d Bm and 40.8dB m with drain efficiencies（DE） of 77.4% and 75.3% at 1.85 GHz and 2.65 GHz, respectively. On the other hand, we see that the peak DE achieves 59.7% with an output power of 39.9 dB m in concurrent mode, which follows up with the standard.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61201025)the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the Major Equipment Development (61327806)the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB339900)
文摘This paper studies the behaviors of power amplifier（PA） driven by a single-carrier continuous wave（CW） signal and a two-carrier CW signal both in theory and simulation, and explains why the traditional dual-band PA failed to perform satisfactory results when a two-carrier CW signal is applied to, called concurrently. Besides that, an evaluation standard of concurrent dual-band PA was presented to value its performance. Solution was given with design and fabrication of a concurrent 1.85 GHz/2.65 GHz class F PA, employing a 10 W GaN HEMT device from Cree, CGH40010, whose measurement shows the saturated output power is 40.6 d Bm and 40.8dB m with drain efficiencies（DE） of 77.4% and 75.3% at 1.85 GHz and 2.65 GHz, respectively. On the other hand, we see that the peak DE achieves 59.7% with an output power of 39.9 dB m in concurrent mode, which follows up with the standard.
