Wideband envelope amplifier for envelope-tracking operation of handset power amplifier

Author

Jooseung Kim ; Dongsu Kim ; Yunsung Cho ; Daehyun Kang ; Sangsu Jin ; Byungjoon Park ; Kyunghoon Moon ; Hadong Jin ; Seungbeom Koo ; Bumman Kim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

6-7 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

408

Lastpage

411

Abstract

This paper presents a wideband envelope amplifier for envelope-tracking operation of handset power amplifiers. The amplifier has a combined structure composed of a linear regulator and a switching converter. A low output impedance class-AB push-pull output stage is employed to expand the bandwidth (BW) of the linear regulator. By reducing the output resistance of the source follower using dual shunt feedbacks, a nondominant pole at the gate of the output buffer is pushed to the higher frequency range. The gain BW product (GBW) of the linear regulator is improved without sacrificing the phase margin (PM) and efficiency. The designed linear regulator achieves the GBW of 129.6-MHz and PM of 73.1°. For a 40-MHz long term evolution signal having a peak-to-average power ratio of 7.4 dB, the envelope amplifier delivers an efficiency of 73.6% at the peak power driving a 7.7Ω resistive load.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; radiofrequency power amplifiers; switching convertors; wideband amplifiers; class-AB push-pull output stage; combined structure; dual shunt feedbacks; envelope-tracking operation; frequency 129.6 MHz; frequency 40 MHz; frequency 73.6 MHz; gain BW product; handset power amplifier; linear regulator; long term evolution signal; low output impedance; nondominant pole; resistance 7.7 ohm; source follower; switching converter; wideband envelope amplifier; Gain; Impedance; Peak to average power ratio; Regulators; Resistance; Switching converters; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference (EuMIC), 2014 9th

Conference_Location

Rome

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuMIC.2014.6997879

Filename

6997879