• DocumentCode
    311804
  • Title

    The effect of a variation in tone spacing on the intermodulation performance of Class A and Class AB HBT power amplifiers

  • Author

    McIntosh, P.M. ; Snowden, C.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Leeds Univ., UK
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    8-13 June 1997
  • Firstpage
    371
  • Abstract
    The first investigation into the effect of frequency separation on the intermodulation distortion performance of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) power amplifiers is reported. The measured results show that the frequency spacing between the two input tones affects the intermodulation distortion performance of Class AB power amplifiers, but not Class A power amplifiers.
  • Keywords
    bipolar transistor circuits; heterojunction bipolar transistors; intermodulation distortion; microwave power amplifiers; Class A; Class AB; HBT power amplifier; frequency separation; heterojunction bipolar transistor; intermodulation distortion; tone spacing; Circuit simulation; Distortion measurement; Frequency measurement; Frequency response; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; High power amplifiers; Intermodulation distortion; Operational amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1997., IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3814-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1997.602811
  • Filename
    602811