期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
卷 37, 期 5, 页码 5786-5800出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2021.3131215
关键词
Pulse width modulation; Buck converters; Switches; Topology; Power amplifiers; Bandwidth; Transistors; DC--DC power converters; envelope tracking (ET); multilevel converters; pulsewidth modulation; radiofrequency amplifiers
资金
- Spanish Government [MCI-20-PID2019-110483RB-I00]
- Principality of Asturias under Severo Ochoa Program [BP20-181]
Envelope tracking is a well-known RF technique that addresses the efficiency problem of linear power amplifiers in wireless communication transmitters. This article proposes a novel multilevel converter that can use low breakdown voltage transistors and exhibits better switching behavior.
Envelope tracking is a well-known RF technique that alleviates the efficiency problem of linear power amplifiers used in wireless communication transmitters. It consists in varying the supply voltage of the amplifier, which is commonly constant, according to the envelope of the communication signal. Therefore, a switching-mode power converter with a bandwidth of several megahertz is required to perform the fast voltage changes needed for tracking the envelope properly. Another important requirement is that the converter needs to be able to achieve high efficiency not only at peak output power, but also at low output power because it operates in that power range most of the time due to the characteristics of modern communication signals. Taking into account these requirements, the design of the converter is very challenging, especially in the case of base stations, where higher power levels are reached by means of higher voltage levels. As a result, transistors with low breakdown voltages (20-30 V), which offer the highest speed, cannot be used in the converter. In this article, a novel multilevel converter able to use transistors with low breakdown voltages is proposed to alleviate that problem. Moreover, it shows a better switching behavior than the previously proposed multilevel converters, thus reducing the switching losses and, consequently, increasing the efficiency. In order to experimentally validate the proposed topology, a 73-W prototype with a switching frequency of 8 MHz was built. The efficiency is 94% and 81.7% at peak output power and at one-tenth of peak output power, respectively.
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