A High Power High Efficient 5.8 GHz CMOS Class-A Power Amplifier for a WPT Application

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Abstract

This paper presents a high power and highly efficient 5.8 GHz differential two-stage cascode Class-A Power Amplifier (PA) for a Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system. The PA is designed in a standard General Purpose (GP) 180 nm CMOS technology. The process does not apply any Radio Frequency (RF) devices such as inductor nor transformer which are essential for an RF design. A full custom-made transformer is proposed and optimized at 5.8 GHz which is modeled using EMX analysis. The proposed transformer shows 1.5 nH and 1.28 nH inductance at the primary and secondary sides of the transformer while their quality factor reaches up to 11.4 and 11 at 5.8 GHz, respectively. Even though reaching higher efficiencies in CMOS processes is more challenging than the GaN processes, the proposed PA has a relatively high Power Added Efficiency (PAE) of 33%. The power gain of the PA is 19.47 dB at 5.8 GHz. The average current consumption of the PA is 144 mA while the power supply is 1.8V.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICUFN 2021 - 2021 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages184-186
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781728164762
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Aug 2021
Event12th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2021 - Virtual, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 17 Aug 202120 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN
Volume2021-August
ISSN (Print)2165-8528
ISSN (Electronic)2165-8536

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2021
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityVirtual, Jeju Island
Period17/08/2120/08/21

Keywords

  • 5.8 GHz
  • High-Power
  • PA
  • WPT

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