An overview of fast DC-DC converters for envelope amplifier in RF transmitters

García Suárez, Oscar and Vasic, Miroslav and Alou Cervera, Pedro and Oliver Ramírez, Jesús Angel and Cobos Márquez, José Antonio (2012). An overview of fast DC-DC converters for envelope amplifier in RF transmitters. In: "Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)", 05/02/2012 - 09/02/2012, Orlando, Florida, USA. pp. 1313-1318. https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2012.6165989.

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Title: An overview of fast DC-DC converters for envelope amplifier in RF transmitters
Author/s:
  • García Suárez, Oscar
  • Vasic, Miroslav
  • Alou Cervera, Pedro
  • Oliver Ramírez, Jesús Angel
  • Cobos Márquez, José Antonio
Item Type: Presentation at Congress or Conference (Article)
Event Title: Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
Event Dates: 05/02/2012 - 09/02/2012
Event Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Title of Book: Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
Date: 2012
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Faculty: E.T.S.I. Industriales (UPM)
Department: Automática, Ingeniería Electrónica e Informática Industrial [hasta 2014]
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

In the last years, RF power amplifiers are taking advantage of the switched dc-dc converters to use them in several architectures that may improve the efficiency of the amplifier, keeping a good linearity. The use of linearization techniques such as Envelope Elimination and Restoration (EER) and Envelope Tracking (ET) requires a very fast dc-dc power converter to provide variable voltage supply to the power amplifier but theoretically the efficiency can be much higher than using the classical amplifiers belonging to classes A, B or AB. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the state of the art of the power converters used as envelope amplifiers in this application where a fast output voltage variation is required. The power topologies will be explored and several important parameters such as efficiency, bandwidth and output voltage range will be discussed.

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Item ID: 20895
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/20895/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:20895
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2012.6165989
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 05 Mar 2014 19:35
Last Modified: 22 Sep 2014 11:21
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