一种高效率F类功率放大器芯片的设计

介绍了一种简单的具有谐波调谐功能的输出匹配网络,可实现2次谐波短路和3次谐波开路。利用该输出匹配网络,基于InGaP/GaAs HBT工艺,设计了一个工作于2 GHz的高效率F类功率放大器,并通过搭载基板实现小型化芯片的研制。芯片测试结果表明,该功率放大器的小信号增益为35 dB,1 dB压缩点为34 dBm,饱和输出功率为35.3 dBm,效率为57%,并具有较好的谐波抑制性能。     

Kinetics of carbon oxidation from fly ash

Thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and evolved gas mass spectroscopy were used to study the kinetics of carbon oxidation from a Class-F fly ash. A multi-process ignition loss schema is presented wherein carbon combustion is modeled as a series or discrete independent reactions. These processes were studied at temperatures up to 1000 °C (1832 °F), for oxygen partial pressures between 0.05 and 0.50 and for heating rates between 5 and 40 °C/min (9-72 °F/min). The results show that carbon combustion can be modeled by a series of at least three processes; the weights (fractions) of which are a function of temperature and not a function of oxygen partial pressure. Such detailed combustion kinetics are relevant for the post processing of fly ash to produce materials suitable for use as concrete admixtures or in the manufacture of sintered artificial aggregate or similar densified structures based on fly ash. Such are low temperature, low heating rate processes relative to coal combustion power generation applications.     

A modified class-F power amplifier with miniaturized harmonic control circuit

In this paper, a modified class-F power-amplifier (PA) for GSM applications is designed, simulated and tested. In this design, novel symmetrical meandered lines compact microstrip resonant cell (SMLCMRC), is proposed as a new harmonics control circuit (HCC), which resulted in size compression, power added efficiency (PAE) enhancement, power gain improvement, and better linearization in the PA. In this work both of the conventional class-F amplifier and proposed amplifier with SMLCMRC is designed at 1.8 GHz. The measurements show that the proposed PA with SMLCMRC has 72.54% maximum PAE, 17.13 dB gain and the 1 dB compression point (P1dB) is about 35.1 dBm. These results show, 16.5% improvement in PAE, 1.33 dB increment in gain and 1.1 dB improvement in linearity operating range of proposed amplifier compared to the conventional PA.