Design and analysis of 80-W wideband asymmetrical Doherty amplifier

Design of Asymmetrical Doherty Power Amplifier with Reduced Memory Effects and Enhanced Back-off Efficiency

This paper presents the design of an asymmetrical Doherty power amplifier (DPA) with improved linearity and efficiency performance. Resonator-type drain bias networks, providing high impedances at the carrier frequency and low impedances with small variation at the envelope frequency, are introduced to reduce the DPA’s memory effects when transmitting wideband signals. The general criteria for ...

Theory and Design of Wideband Doherty Power Amplifiers

The Doherty power amplifier (DPA) is one of the most popular power amplifier architectures for obtaining high average efficiency for modern communication signals with high peak-to-average power ratios (PAPR). However, the DPA suffers from often having narrowband performance which limits its capabilities in wideband and/or multi-standard microwave and radio frequency applications. In this thesis...

Analysis, Design Optimization and Perfor- Mance Comparison of Bias Adapted and Asymmetrical Doherty Power Amplifiers

Doherty type Power Amplifier (DPA) design is one of the most practical efficiency enhancement methods that provide moderate linearity. Asymmetrical device usage and employment of bias adaptation are among the most commonly used Doherty architectures in recent applications. In this paper, the efficiency performances of bias adapted DPA and asymmetrical DPA are compared based on the efficiency ex...

Towards generalized Doherty power amplifier design for multiband operation

This paper presents a new variant of broadband Doherty power amplifier that employs a novel output combiner. A new parameter αα is introduced to permit a generalized analysis of the recently reported Parallel Doherty power amplifier (PDPA), and hence offer design flexibility. The circuit prototype of the new DPA fabricated using GaN devices exhibits maximum drain efficiency of 85% at 43-dBm pea...

Design of a wideband variable gain amplifier