Varactor-Based Dynamic Load Modulation of High Power Amplifiers

Ali Soltani Tehrani, Hossein Mashad Nemati, Haiying Cao, Thomas Eriksson, Christian Fager

In this work, dynamic load modulation of high power amplifiers using a varactor-based tunable matching network is presented. The feasibility of dynamic tuning and efficiency enhancement of this technique is demonstrated using a modular design approach for two existing high efficiency power amplifiers (PA), a 7-W class-E, and a 10-W class-J power amplifier PA at 1 GHz. For this purpose and for each of the PAs, a simple quasi-static inverse model is developed allowing an efficiency-optimized control of the PA and the varactor-based tunable matching network. Modulated measurements using a single carrier WCDMA signal with 11.3 dB peak-to-average ratio (PAR) indicate about 10 to 14 percentage units improvements in the average power-added efficiency (PAE) for the complete architecture.

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