Power Amplifier Design using the Novel PBG Structure for Linearity Improvement and Size Reduction

Author

Choi, Jaewon ; Seo, Chulhun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Wireless Commun., Soongsil Univ., Seoul

fYear

2007

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a novel photonic bandgap (PBG) structure for size reduction and linearity improvement in power amplifier. The proposed structure is a two-dimensional (2-D) periodic lattice patterned on a dielectric slab that does not require nonplanar fabrication process. Throughout the experimental results, this structure has more broad stopband and high suppression performance than conventional three cell PBG and distorted uniplanar compact PBG (DUC_PBG). The 3rd inter- modulation distortion (IMD3) of the power amplifier using new PBG structure is -36.16 dBc for CDMA applications. Compared with power amplifier without the proposed PBG structure, improved IMD3 is -13.49 dBc.

Keywords

dielectric materials; intermodulation distortion; microwave power amplifiers; photonic band gap; 3rd inter- modulation distortion; PBG structure; dielectric slab; photonic bandgap; power amplifier design; two-dimensional periodic lattice pattern; Dielectrics; Fabrication; Lattices; Linearity; Multiaccess communication; Periodic structures; Photonic band gap; Power amplifiers; Slabs; Two dimensional displays; CDMA; IMD; PA; PBG; microstrip square open loop;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2007. APMC 2007. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0748-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0749-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2007.4554591

Filename

4554591