传统的F类功率放大器设计方法是对其输出端进行谐波抑制,在输出端得到近似方波的电压信号和近似半正弦波的电流信号,以此提高放大器效率.新型高效率F类功率放大器在输入端加入谐波抑制电路,同时利用输入和输出谐波抑制匹配网络能够有效提高输出功率和功率附加效率;在S波段完成一款电路的设计并进行测试,在电路设计中采用新的负载牵引、源牵引仿真方法,实验结果和仿真结果非常吻合.在输入激励为28dBm条件下,测试结果表明,最大PAE能够达到75.4%,输出功率40.3dBm.
Traditional class F RF power amplifier design methods utilize harmonic suppression at the output of the amplifier,where square-like drain voltage and close half-sine drain current waveforms are obtained to improve the efficiency of class F power amplifier.The input harmonic controllable matching network can be added to the novel high efficiency class F amplifier.Meanwhile,both input and output harmonic controllable matching networks are used to obtain the best power-added efficiency.The experimental results were found to be in good agreement with simulated results when a circuit was designed and tested at the S band with the novel load-pull/source-pull simulation-based approach adopted in the circuit design.The measurement results show that the maximum PAE of the PA could achieve 75.4% with 40.3 dBm output power when the input power was 28 dBm.