DESIGN OF A 9MHZ 15KW CW AMPLIFIER FOR RHIC Shane Dillon CTO.

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DESIGN OF A 9MHZ 15KW CW AMPLIFIER FOR RHIC Shane Dillon CTO

 Six 2.5kW amplifier units (water cooled)  6:1 combiner unit (water cooled)  Interface unit (provides Ethernet, parallel, and local pushbutton interfaces).  Switch mode PSU housed in a separate rack (located remotely outside of the accelerator tunnel to avoid risk of radiation damage) PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION S Dillon CTO TOMCO

THE MAJOR SPECIFICATIONS. S Dillon CTO TOMCO

THE DESIGN CHALLENGES  Since circulators are not an option at 9MHz, the amplifier must be capable of withstanding the mismatch in its own right. The design effort focused on four main areas:  Achieving the forward power requirement safely  Managing the heat  Ensuring stability  Staying inside the safe operating area S Dillon CTO TOMCO

THE BASIC PROBLEM S Dillon CTO TOMCO As a first approximation, the maximum power that a push-pull transistor pair can produce is limited to 2V dc 2 /R L V dc is the DC supply voltage (fixed at 50 volts in this case) R L is the load resistance presented across the transistor drains (this is a function of the load at the output of the amplifier) … the maximum available power is (roughly) inversely proportional to R L  If R L is too large it becomes impossible to achieve the required output power.  If R L is too small a large amount of power can be produced but there is a risk of destroying the transistor due to excessive die temperature. The design is a matter of balance between the high and low impedance extremes of the load space.

… THERMAL STRESS S Dillon CTO TOMCO  Reflected power disrupts the operating point of the transistor and can greatly reduce its efficiency.  This can lead to very high heat dissipation in the silicon die, which if not properly managed can lead to a situation that will be very familiar to anyone who works with high-power amplifiers……

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STABILITY S Dillon CTO TOMCO  LDMOS transistors have very high gain at low frequencies. This must be controlled to avoid possible oscillation.  Since the load may be purely reactive, precautions were taken to limit the possible Q of resonances between amplifier circuit elements and the load. High-Q resonances can cause oscillations if any suitable feedback path exists.  Uncontrolled resonances could destroy components such filter capacitors or coupling capacitors, leading to another familiar scenario…………..

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STABILITY S Dillon CTO TOMCO  Variations in the load impedance lead to corresponding changes in the linearity and gain of the amplifier. These effects must be minimised, to make the amplifier as “well behaved” as possible.

PA MODULE S Dillon CTO TOMCO

ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS: S Dillon CTO TOMCO THERMAL PERFORMANCE  Thermal management involves a compromise between manufacturability, serviceability and thermal/electrical performance.  The following three images show thermal measurements on a PA with the ceramic lid removed from one of its transistors.  These 3:1 VSWR conditions represent some of the worst-case thermal stresses on the transistors.

 Forward power 420 W  50 ohm load  Die temp 90C S Dillon CTO TOMCO IMAGE 1.

 Low impedance load of SWR 3:1, again at a forward power of 420W  Die temp 156C S Dillon CTO TOMCO IMAGE 2.

 High impedance load of SWR 3:1, again at a forward power of 420W  Die temp 53C IMAGE 3. S Dillon CTO TOMCO

Example of transistor drain voltage at two extremes of load impedance at infinite VSWR (50V/div):  Upper screen = high impedance load. Forward power = 150W, supply current = 5.3A  Lower screen = low impedance load. Forward power = 150W, supply current = 14A (the series resistor dissipates significant power in this condition) S Dillon CTO TOMCO TRANSISTOR VOLTAGE

The specification implies that the reflected power the amplifier must withstand depends upon the forward power. S Dillon CTO TOMCO P refl = ǀ Γ ǀ 2 P fwd STAYING INSIDE THE SAFE OPERATING AREA- REFLECTED POWER LIMIT CONTROL

To achieve this the VSWR protection system uses an analog computation circuit that fits a 2 nd order polynomial to the specified reflected power profile. S Dillon CTO TOMCO STAYING INSIDE THE SAFE OPERATING AREA- REFLECTED POWER LIMIT CONTROL P refl = ǀ Γ ǀ 2 P fwd

 A 4-bit binary phase shifter and variable mismatch was constructed to allow testing over the entire load space.  Gives 22.5° steps in reflection coefficient  Allows six VSWR steps up to 10:1.  For ∞:1 replace the dummy load with a copper plate! S Dillon CTO TOMCO TESTING THE SYSTEM

 Plots of amplifier forward power (kW) across the entire load space.* * Plots courtesy of Salvatore A. Polizzo, Brookhaven National Laboratory MISMATCH PERFORMANCE S Dillon CTO TOMCO

MISMATCH PERFORMANCE  Plot of amplifier internal heat dissipation(kW) and DC current draw (Amps) across the entire load space.* * Plots courtesy of Salvatore A. Polizzo, Brookhaven National Laboratory S Dillon CTO TOMCO

 Tested by pulsing the amplifier into a short-circuit load S Dillon CTO TOMCO TRANSIENT MISMATCH RESPONSE

 Graph shows gain variation versus angle of reflection coefficient from VSWR up to ∞:1.  Worst case variation ±1.5dB.  No discontinuities – well behaved at all impedances. S Dillon CTO TOMCO GAIN VARIATION WITH LOAD IMPEDANCE

GAIN AND PHASE LINEARITY S Dillon CTO TOMCO  Gain and phase linearity over a 30dB range up to 15kW.  Gain variation ±0.6dB  Phase variation ±3°

HARMONICS S Dillon CTO TOMCO  All harmonics <-35dBc at full rated power

THANK YOU! Shane Dillon CTO