This dissertation presents a hybrid quadrature polar modulator (HQPM) to drive the power amplifier (PA) highly efficiently in a wireless RF transmitter with good potential for multi-mode operation. For enhancing the efficiency, a Class-E PA is used in the transmitter. The HQPM consists of a quadrature modulator for processing the RF modulated carrier and a Class-S modulator for processing the supply-voltage signal. The quadrature modulator and the Class-S modulator deliver the output signals with envelope variation before being inserted into the RF-input terminal and the supply-voltage terminal of Class-E PA, respectively, causing the double envelope modulation to distort the modulated RF signal at the PA output. Therefore, a digital predistorter is proposed to be embedded in the HQPM for compensation. The use of such predistorted HQPM techniques can help reducing the average DC and RF input powers and the output feed-through levels so as to enhance power added efficiency and adjacent channel power rejection quite remarkably.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0830106-165024 |
| Date | 30 August 2006 |
| Creators | Jau, Je-Kuan |
| Contributors | Chin-Chun Meng, Huey-Ru Chuang, Sung-Mao Wu, Tzyy-Sheng Horng, Kin-Lu Wong, Ken-Huang Lin, Chih-Wen Kuo, Sheng-Fu Chang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830106-165024 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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