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The effect of drain voltage variation on the power gain compression has been studied in this research. The class-E amplifier has a maximum theoretical efficiency of 100%. It consists of a single transistor that is driven as a switch and a passive load network. The passive load network is designed to minimize drain (collector) voltage and current waveforms overlapping, which minimize the output power dissipation. Two L-band class-E amplifiers are implemented in section 5.3. One of them is a lumped elements based circuit and the other is a transmission lines based circuit. Both circuits show good performance (60% PAD) over a wide bandwidth (1.0 GHz). In section 5.4, lumped elements and transmission lines based X-band class-E amplifiers are presented. Both circuits show good performance (62% PAD) over wide bandwidth (4.8 GHz). A new technique to improve the drain efficiency of the class-E amplifier has been proposed. This technique uses two passive networks. One of them is in a series with the shunt capacitor CS and the other is in a series with the transistor's source terminal. This technique shows improvement in the drain efficiency, which jumps from 62% to 82%. Last few years have seen an increase in the popularity of the wireless communication systems. As a result, the demand for compact, low-cost, and low power portable (Single-chip) transceivers has increased dramatically. Among the transceiver's building blocks is the power amplifier. Thus, there is a need for a low-cost power amplifier. A 900 MHz CMOS RF PA with one-watt output power and a high power added efficiency (68%) is presented in chapter 6. This PA can be used in the European standard for mobile communications (GSM) handset transmitter.","abstract_html":"Power amplifiers (PA) are typically the most power-consuming building blocks of RF transceivers. 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One of them is a lumped elements based circuit and the other is a transmission lines based circuit. Both circuits show good performance (60% PAD) over a wide bandwidth (1.0 GHz). In section 5.4, lumped elements and transmission lines based X-band class-E amplifiers are presented. Both circuits show good performance (62% PAD) over wide bandwidth (4.8 GHz). A new technique to improve the drain efficiency of the class-E amplifier has been proposed. This technique uses two passive networks. One of them is in a series with the shunt capacitor CS and the other is in a series with the transistor's source terminal. This technique shows improvement in the drain efficiency, which jumps from 62% to 82%. Last few years have seen an increase in the popularity of the wireless communication systems. As a result, the demand for compact, low-cost, and low power portable (Single-chip) transceivers has increased dramatically. Among the transceiver's building blocks is the power amplifier. 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