A Dynamic Load Modulation Power Amplifier with Ferroelectric-Based Tunable Matching Network

Pavel Turalchuk, Irina Filipiuk, Bayazet Iskakov, Giuseppe Araniti, Chiara Suraci, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roberto Morabito, Antonino Orsino · 2024

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Pavel Turalchuk and co-authors present a power amplifier design in 2024 for next-generation radios. Amplifiers set both the clarity and the energy use of a radio unit. Signals with spiky power levels force a trade-off: stay clear at low power and waste is high, or save energy and distort.

Their design tunes the output matching network with a ferroelectric part whose setting shifts with a control voltage. A bias unit also adapts the load to incoming power. At 2.5 gigahertz the amp held at least fifty percent efficiency at deep back-off and over sixty percent at peak. Tuning the bias curve sharpened clarity as well.

Catalog record

CREATORPavel Turalchuk, Irina Filipiuk, Bayazet Iskakov, Giuseppe Araniti, Chiara Suraci, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roberto Morabito, Antonino Orsino
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE24 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11644190

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