December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
18h 19m
English
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Chapter 6Class E Zero-Current Switching RF Power Amplifier
6.1 Introduction
In this chapter, a Class E RF zero-current switching (ZCS) power amplifier [1–6] is presented and analyzed. In this amplifier, the switch is turned off at zero current, yielding zero turn-off switching loss. Therefore, this circuit is also called an inverse Class E amplifier. A shortcoming of the Class E ZCS amplifier is that the switch output capacitance is not included in the basic amplifier topology. The switch turns on at a nonzero voltage, and the energy stored in the switch output capacitance is dissipated in the switching device, reducing the efficiency. Therefore, the upper operating frequency of the Class E ZCS amplifier is lower than that of the Class E ZVS amplifier.
6.2 Circuit Description
A circuit of a Class E ZCS RF power amplifier is depicted in Fig. 6.1(a). This circuit was introduced in [1]. It consists of a single transistor and a load network. The transistor operates cyclically as a switch at the desired operating frequency 
. The simplest type of load network consists of a resonant inductor 
connected in series with the dc source 
, and an -- series-resonant circuit. The resistance
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