access icon free Performance of cascode Class-EF−1 PA with built-in techniques for UWB radar toward monitoring of patient actions

This work proposes a performance of the cascode Class-EF−1 power amplifier (PA) for UWB radar transmitter. The cascode Class-E PA with built-in techniques overcomes the traditional mismatch and provides good performance of PA. Incurs the resonance and switching effect is observed in cascode Class-E PA that compensates for the parasitic effects and provides a wide-impedance range. While design-II includes negative capacitance and inverse Class-F, which achieves a redundant performance of wide bandwidth and power-added efficiency (PAE). Design-II achieves the redundant performance compared with design-I. Both design-I and design-II are implemented and analysed through simulation and experimental results using RF 65 nm Samsung Magnachip Hynix CMOS process. Design-I achieves a wide-impedance bandwidth ranging from 3 to 11.7 GHz with drain efficiency (DE) and maximum PAE of 80 and 73% at the output power of 26.4 dBm. The global efficiency (GE) and error vector magnitude (EVM) of 70 and 5.2% are also achieving for design-I. The redundant performance in design-II achieves wide bandwidth with operating frequency range of 2–13 GHz with maximum DE and PAE of 85 and 76%. For design-II, GE and EVM are investigated as 68 and 4.9% that could validate the accuracy and robustness of the UWB radar.

Inspec keywords: CMOS integrated circuits; radar transmitters; patient monitoring; microwave power amplifiers; ultra wideband radar; biomedical communication

Other keywords: complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process; bandwidth 3.0 GHz to 11.7 GHz; UWB radar; inverse Class-F; negative capacitance; error vector magnitude; frequency 2.0 GHz to 13.0 GHz; patient action monitoring; size 65.0 nm; wide-impedance bandwidth; RF Samsung Magna-chip Hynix; power amplifier; ultra-wideband radio-frequency; radar transmitter

Subjects: Radar equipment, systems and applications; Biomedical communication; CMOS integrated circuits; Microwave integrated circuits; Amplifiers

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/iet-cds.2019.0241
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