High Efficiency and High Output Power HFET GaN Doherty Power Amplifier with Linearity Region Extension for Wireless Applications

Author(s):  
Azadeh Norouzi Kangarshahi ◽  
Abdulhamid Zahedi
Author(s):  
Ahmed S. H. Ahmed ◽  
Utku Soylu ◽  
Munkyo Seo ◽  
Miguel Urteaga ◽  
Mark J. W. Rodwell

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 5581
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Zhang ◽  
Zhiqun Cheng ◽  
Guohua Liu

This paper presents a new method to design a Doherty power amplifier (DPA) with a large, high-efficiency range for 5G communication. This is through analyzing the drain-to-source capacitance (CDS) of DPAs, and adopting appropriate impedance of the peak device. A closed design process is proposed, to design the extended efficiency range DPA based on derived theories. For validation, a DPA with large efficiency range was designed and fabricated by using two equal devices. The measured results showed that the saturated output power was between 43.4 dBm and 43.7 dBm in the target band. Around 70% saturated drain efficiency is obtained with a gain of greater than 11 dB. Moreover, the obtained drain efficiency is larger than 50% at the 10 dB power back-off, when operating at 3.5 GHz. These superior performances illustrate that the implemented DPA can be applied well in 5G communication.


2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Yasuhiko ARAKAWA ◽  
Satoshi IWAMOTO ◽  
Junichi NISHIMAE ◽  
Mitsuru SUGAWARA

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