This paper presents a new common-mode stabilization method for a CMOS differential cascode Class-E power amplifier with LCtank based driver stage. The stabilization method is based on the identification of the poles and zeros of the closed-loop transfer function at a critical node. By adding a series resistor at the common-gate node of the cascode transistor, the right-half-plane poles are move...

This paper presents a novel stereo enhancement structure for the surround stereo class-D audio amplifier. The principle of this stereo enhancement scheme has been analyzed. It shows that the amplifier with this proposed circuit have a better live effect than the traditional class-D audio amplifiers. In this circuit, the input audio signal from one channel can be amplified in the two channels at...

The objective of this research was to design a 2.4 GHz class AB Power Amplifier (PA), with 0.18um Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) CMOS technology by using Cadence software, for health care applications. The ultimate goal for such application is to minimize the trade-offs between performance and cost, and between performance and low power consumption design. This pap...

The objective of this research was to design a 2.4 GHz class AB Power Amplifier (PA), with 0.18um Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) CMOS technology by using Cadence software, for health care applications. The ultimate goal for such application is to minimize the trade-offs between performance and cost, and between performance and low power consumption design. This pap...

In literature, it is widely accepted that the design of Class-E Power Amplifier (PA) with finite dc feed inductance requires a long iterative solution procedure. To avoid such iterative solution methods, analytical design equations should be known. The problem associated with the finite dc feed inductance Class-E PA is usually ascribed to the fact that the circuit element values are transcenden...

The RF power amplifier (PA) is one of the critical components in the 802.11 transceivers, and it is expected to provide a suitable output power at a very good gain with high efficiency and linearity. However, present-day telecommunication device technology is not well suited to the requirements of optical data communication. Digital CMOS is the most used technology in RF applications, nowadays;...

This paper describes a power amplifier, employing parallel-connected laterally diffused metal–oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) devices with optimized channel widths and bias offsets to approximate ideal square-law behavior of the overall transconductance in class-AB operation. The proposed method results in a significant linearity improvement over a large dynamic range in comparison to a conventiona...

We present measurements of the power noise due to optical amplification in a Nd:YAG free-space traveling-wave amplifier as the amplifier transitions from the linear regime into the heavily saturated regime. The quantum noise behavior is demonstrated by saturating the gain of a 100-W class zigzag slab amplifier with a high-power beam and measuring the power noise detected by a single-spatial-mod...