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A plasma lighting system (PLS) using a solid-state (SS) radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) is one of the promising lighting systems due to its excellent light characteristics and power efficiency. To improve the efficacy and reduce the adjacent channel interference of the PLS, a method to generate a band-limited pulsed-RF signal using the limited number of multi-tone signals is proposed. A 2.49 GHz PLS with a 300W gallium-nitride (GaN) SSPA is implemented, and it is used to verify the proposed method. The PLS using the proposed method shows better performance compared with those using conventional pulsed-RF signal.
Jonggyun LIM Wonshil KANG Kang-Yoon LEE Hyunchul KU
A class-E power amplifier (PA) with novel dynamic biasing scheme is proposed to enhance power added efficiency (PAE) over a wide power range. A look-up table (LUT) adjusts input power and drain supply voltage simultaneously to keep switch mode condition of a power transistor and to optimize the PAE. Experimental results show that the class-E PA using the proposed scheme with harmonic suppression filter gives the PAE higher than 80% over 8.5,dB range with less than 40,dBc harmonic suppression.