IEEE Access (Jan 2024)

60 W Class-E/F<sub>3</sub> Switching Power Amplifier With an Improved Second Harmonic Distortion of &#x2212;49 dBc

  • Sooncheol Bae,
  • Hansik Oh,
  • Woojin Choi,
  • Jaekyung Shin,
  • Yifei Chen,
  • Hyeongjin Jeon,
  • Young Chan Choi,
  • Sunwoo Nam,
  • Soohyun Bin,
  • Yoonjung Lee,
  • Kang-Yoon Lee,
  • Keum Cheol Hwang,
  • Youngoo Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3378574
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12
pp. 41980 – 41987

Abstract

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This paper presents a Class-E/F3 switching power amplifier (SPA) with reduced second harmonic leakage using parallel resonant circuit in series for the second harmonics. The proposed Class-E/F3 SPA has a structure utilizing a series resonant circuit in shunt for the third harmonic, designed to function as a shunt capacitor for the fundamental, and an additional parallel resonant circuit for the second harmonic, designed to operate as a series inductor for the fundamental. Using the proposed scheme, a Class-E/F3 SPA was designed and implemented for 6.78 MHz, and was evaluated with various supply voltages. It exhibited output power levels ranging from 10.26 to 59.98 W (40.11 to 47.78 dBm) with supply voltages ranging from 10 to 24 V. The efficiency was maintained at over 89.25%. Additionally, it demonstrated very low second and third harmonic distortion levels, each not exceeding −49.98 dBc, while the total harmonic distortion (THD) ranged from 1.54% to 2.15%.

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