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Design of a Dual-band Class-E Power Amplifier using Metamaterial CRLH Transmission Lines  

Lim, Sung-Gyu (Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Soongsil University)
Seo, Chul-Hun (Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Soongsil University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.48, no.9, 2011 , pp. 54-58 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper a dual-band Class-E power amplifier using Composite Right-/Left-Handed transmission lines and PIN diode is proposed. Dual-band operation is achieved by the frequency offset and nonlinear phase slope of CRLH TL for the matching network of power amplifiers. The proposed power amplifier has been realized by using in the input and the output matching network for high power added efficiency. PIN diode has been used to obtain the dual-band of power amplifier. The measured results show that output powers of 42.17 dBm and 41.43 dBm were obtained at 800 MHz and 1900 MHz, respectively. At this frequency, we have obtained the power-added efficiency(PAE) of 67.84 % and 65.31 % in two operation frequencies, respectively.
Keywords
Class-E; power amplifier; dual-band; CRLH(Composite Rignt-/Left-Handed) TLs; PIN Diode;
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