Hamid Rahimpour; HamidReza Mirzaei; Masoomeh Yarmohammadi Satri; Zafar Riazi Mobaraki
Abstract
A continuous-wave solid-state-based power amplifier is designed and simulated in this paper to work as an RF injector into an ECR ion source chamber. Employing a solid-state radio frequency power amplifier, instead of microwave tubes, leads to having higher efficiency, lower price, compact size, and ...
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A continuous-wave solid-state-based power amplifier is designed and simulated in this paper to work as an RF injector into an ECR ion source chamber. Employing a solid-state radio frequency power amplifier, instead of microwave tubes, leads to having higher efficiency, lower price, compact size, and longer lifetime. Also, a modular design can be achieved for designing higher output power by repeating lower power sources and combining them. The proposed solid-state source can deliver more than 200-watt power to the ion chamber with a single high-power transistor. The selected Doherty high-power transistor is internally matched to 50 ohms and doesn’t need a bias sequence circuit. Two gain stages are applied to drive the high-power transistor. The designed RF source is simulated using the Advanced Design System (ADS) based on the measured scattering parameters of components. Simulations show an output power of more than 57 dBm with a tunable frequency bandwidth from 2.3 to 2.5 GHz.
Hamid Rahimpour; HamidReza Mirzaei; Masoomeh Yarmohammadi Satri
Abstract
A high-power solid-sate based radio frequency power source is introduced in this paper. Solid-state based amplifiers are much more efficient than microwave tubes and can be used in compact electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources. A reliable negative bias voltage controller is proposed to drive ...
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A high-power solid-sate based radio frequency power source is introduced in this paper. Solid-state based amplifiers are much more efficient than microwave tubes and can be used in compact electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources. A reliable negative bias voltage controller is proposed to drive the power source's main power amplifier, which can deliver up to 300-watt power to the ion chamber. The selected high-power transistor is internally matched on the input side but the output side is matched in this paper to deliver maximum power to the load. The bias circuit was fabricated on FR4 substrate and measurement results were obtained to verify the functionality of the bias sequencer. Analog simulations were done by LTSPICE and high-frequency simulations are performed with the momentum RF simulator of Advanced Design System (ADS). The output power of the proposed structure is tunable with 0.5 dB resolution and can deliver 300 mW to 300 W power to the ion chamber.