The paper presents the architecture of a wideband reconfigurable harmonically-tuned Gallium Nitride (GaN) Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) for cognitive radios. When interfaced with the physical layer of a cognitive communication system, this amplifier topology offers broadband high efficiency through the use of multiple tuned input/output matching networks. This feature enables the cognitive radio to reconfigure the operating frequency without sacrificing efficiency. This paper additionally presents as a proof-of-concept the design, fabrication, and test results for a GaN inverse Class-F type amplifier operating at X-band (8.4 GHz) that achieves a maximum output power of 5.14-W, Power Added Efficiency (PAE) of 38.6%, and Drain Efficiency (DE) of 48.9% under continuous wave (CW) operation.
Wideband reconfigurable harmonically tuned GaN SSPA for cognitive radios
01.06.2017
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