標題: Averaging and cancellation effect of high-order nonlinearity of a power amplifier
作者: Lee, Chien-Ping
Ma, Wenlong
Wang, Nanlei Larry
電子工程學系及電子研究所
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
關鍵字: Fourier transforms;heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT);intermodulation distortion (IMD);nonlinear distortion;power amplifiers (PAs)
公開日期: 1-十二月-2007
摘要: Nonlinear distortion of a power amplifier (PA) due to the nonlinear input-output transfer function is studied. The high-order nonlinearity or Fourier components of the output, due to the mixing of input signals, are found to be related to an average integral related to the transfer function, thus giving insight to the cancellation effect of the nonlinearity. A simple formula has been derived to relate the nth-order Fourier component of a nonlinear transfer function with a sinusoidal input to an average integral of the nth-order derivative of the transfer function. The large signal nonlinear distortion of the nth-order can therefore be regarded as a weighted average of the nth-order derivative of the transfer function. For PAs, the averaging effect gives rise to local minima in the intermodulation distortion terms during power sweep because of the cancellation of the positive part and the negative part of the derivative during averaging. We have applied the formula to InGaP heterojunction bipolar transistors PAs and are able to explain most of the observed nonlinear phenomena of the amplifiers.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2007.905650
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/10035
ISSN: 1549-8328
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.905650
期刊: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS
Volume: 54
Issue: 12
起始頁: 2733
結束頁: 2740
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