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Low-Loss Matching Network Design for Band-Switchable Multi-Band Power Amplifier Atsushi FUKUDA Takayuki FURUTA Hiroshi OKAZAKI Shoichi NARAHASHI Toshio NOJIMA Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E95-C No.7 pp.1172-1181 Publication Date: 2012/07/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1353 DOI: 10.1587/transele.E95.C.1172 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Trends of Microwave Systems and Their Fundamental Technologies) Category: Keyword: power amplifier, reconfigurable, matching network, multi-band, switch, Full Text: FreePDF(3.2MB) Summary: This paper presents a novel design scheme for a band-switchable multi-band power amplifier (BS-MPA). A key point of the design scheme is configuring multi-section reconfigurable matching networks (MR-MNs) optimally in terms of low loss matching in multiple frequency bands from 0.7 to 2.5 GHz. The MR-MN consists of several matching sections, each of which has a matching block connected to a transmission line via a switch. Power dissipation at an actual on-state switch results in the insertion loss of the MR-MN and depends on how the impedance is transformed by the MR-MN. The proposed design scheme appropriately transforms the impedance of a high power transistor to configure a low loss MR-MN. Numerical analyses show quantitative improvement in the loss using the proposed scheme. A 9-band 3-stage BS-MPA is newly designed following the proposed scheme and fabricated on a multi-layer low temperature co-fired ceramic substrate for compactness. The BS-MPA achieves a gain of over 30 dB, an output power of greater than 33 dBm and a power added efficiency of over 40% at the supply voltage of 4 V in each operating band. | |||||
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