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1 Switchmode RF Power AmplifiersGrebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 1 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanGrebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 2 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanThis page intentionally left blankSwitchmode RF Power AmplifiersAndrei GrebennikovNathan O. SokalAMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDONNEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGOSAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYON ewnes is an imprint of ElsevierGrebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 3 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanNewnes is an imprint of Elsevier30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USAL inacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UKCopyright 2007 by Elsevier Inc.

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3 1st bibliographical references and 978-0-7506-7962-6 (alk. paper)1. Power Amplifiers . 2. Microwave Amplifiers . I. Sokal, Nathan O. II. 35 dc222007017121 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British : 978-0-7506-7962-6 For information on all Newnes publicationsvisit our Web site at in the United States of AmericaGrebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 4 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanTable of ContentsAbout Andrei ixAbout Nathan O. xiiiAcknowledgments .. xviiChapter 1: Power -Amplifier Design Spectral-Domain Analysis .. Basic Classes of Operation: A, AB, B, and C .. Active Device Models .. High-Frequency Conduction Angle .. Nonlinear Effect of Collector Capacitance.

4 Push-Pull Power Amplifiers .. Power Gain and Stability .. Parametric 50 Chapter 2: Class-D Power Switched-Mode Power Amplifiers with Resistive Load .. Complementary Voltage-Switching Configuration .. Transformer-Coupled Voltage-Switching Configuration .. Symmetrical Current-Switching Configuration .. Transformer-Coupled Current-Switching Voltage-Switching Configuration with Reactive Load .. Drive and Transition Time .. Practical Class-D Power Amplifier Implementation .. 92 Chapter 3: Class-F Power Amplifiers .. Biharmonic Operation 95 Grebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 5 12:19pm Compositor Name: Idealized Class-F Mode .. Class F with Maximally Flat Waveforms .. Class F with Quarter-wave Transmission Line.

5 Effect of Saturation Resistance and Shunt Load Networks with Lumped Elements .. Load Networks with Transmission Lines .. LDMOSFET Power -Amplifier Design Examples .. Practical RF and Microwave Class-F Power 145 Chapter 4: Inverse Class Biharmonic Operation Idealized Inverse Class-F Mode .. Inverse Class F with Quarter-wave Transmission Load Networks with Lumped Elements .. Load Networks with Transmission Lines .. LDMOSFET Power -Amplifier Design Examples .. Practical 176 Chapter 5: Class E with Shunt Effect of Detuned Resonant Circuit .. Load Network with Shunt Capacitor and Series Filter .. Matching with Standard Load .. Effect of Saturation Resistance .. Driving Signal and Finite Switching Time .. Effect of Nonlinear Shunt Capacitance.

6 Push-Pull Operation Mode .. Load Network with Transmission Lines .. Practical RF and Microwave Class-E Power Amplifiers and 227 Chapter 6: Class E with Finite dc-Feed Inductance .. Class E with One Capacitor and One Generalized Class-E Load Network with Finite dc-Feed Inductance .. Subharmonic Class Parallel-Circuit Class E .. Even-Harmonic Class E .. Effect of Bondwire Inductance .. Load Network with Transmission Lines .. Broadband Class E .. 269 Grebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 6 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanTable of Power Gain .. CMOS Class-E Power 287 Chapter 7: Class E with Quarter-wave Transmission Line .. Load Network with Parallel Quarter-wave Line .. Optimum Load Network Parameters.

7 Load Network with Zero Series Reactance .. Matching Circuit with Lumped Matching Circuit with Transmission Load Network with Series Quarter-wave Line and Shunt Filter .. 314 Chapter 8: Alternative and Mixed-Mode High-Efficiency Power Class-DE Power Class-E/F Power Biharmonic Class-EMPower Inverse Class-E Power Amplifiers .. Harmonic Tuning Using Load-Pull Techniques .. 359 Chapter 9: Computer-Aided Design of Switched-Mode Power HB-PLUS Program for Half-Bridge and Full-Bridge Direct-CoupledVoltage-Switching Class-D and Class-DE HEPA-PLUS CAD Program for Class E .. Effect of Class-E Load-Network Parameter Variations .. HB-PLUS CAD Examples for Class D and Class DE .. HEPA-PLUS CAD Example for Class E .. Class-E Power -Amplifier Design Using SPICE.

8 ADS Circuit Simulator and Its Applicability to Switched-Mode Class E .. ADS CAD Design Example: High-Efficiency Two-StageL-Band HBTP ower Amplifier .. 421 Grebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 7 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanTable of ContentsviiGrebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 8 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanThis page intentionally left blankAbout Andrei GrebennikovDr. Andrei Grebennikov, IEEE Senior Member, has obtained a long-term academicand industrial experience working with Moscow Technical University of Communications andInformatics, Russia; Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore; M/A-COM, Ireland; andInfineon Technologies, Germany, as an engineer, researcher, lecturer, and educator.

9 Helectured as a Guest Professor at the University of Linz, Austria, and presented short courses asan Invited Speaker at the International Microwave Symposium, European MicrowaveConference, and Motorola Design Centre, Malaysia. He is an author of more than 60 papers,3 books, and several European and : Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 9 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanixGrebennikov: Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanThis page intentionally left blankAbout Nathan O. SokalIn 1989, Mr. Sokal was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the technologyof high-efficiency switching-mode Power conversion and switching-mode RF poweramplification. In 2007, he received the Microwave Pioneer award from the IEEE MicrowaveTheory and Techniques Society, in recognition of a major, lasting contribution developmentof the Class-E RF Power 1965, he founded Design Automation, Inc.

10 , a consulting company doing electronics designreview, product design, and solving unsolvable problems for equipment-manufacturingclients. Much of that work has been on high-efficiency switching-mode RF Power amplifiersat frequencies up to GHz, and switching-mode dc-dc Power converters. He holds eightpatents in Power electronics, and is the author or co-author of two books and approximately130 technical papers, mostly on high-efficiency generation of RF Power and dc 1950 1965, he held engineering and supervisory positions for design, manufacture,and applications of analog and digital received and degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in is a Technical Adviser to the American Radio Relay League, on RF Power Amplifiers anddc Power supplies, and a member of the Electromagnetics Society, Eta Kappa Nu, and SigmaXi honorary professional : Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers Prelims Final Proof page 12:19pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradabanxiGrebennikov.