Background and Objectives: In this paper, a new design strategy was proposed in order to enhance bandwidth and efficiency of power amplifier. Methods: To realize the introduced design strategy, a power amplifier was designed using TSMC CMOS 0.18um technology for operating in the Ka band, i.e. the frequency range of 26.5-40GHz. To design the power amplifier, first a power divider (PD) with a ver...

approved: Andreas Weisshaar In cellular telephones, RF power amplifiers consume a significant part of the total phone current. Reducing the average PA current will extend battery life. In GSM systems the handset is commanded by the base station to transmit at power levels lower than full power much of the time. A Doherty amplifier can be used to improve efficiency at these lower power levels, p...

Abstract This paper presents a high-power inverted Doherty power amplifier for broader operational bandwidth. After analyzing two operation modes according to the load modulation of the Doherty power amplifier, the inverted Doherty structure was selected. In the design, the load impedances for optimum broadband characteristics at both the back-off and peak power levels. The Doherty power amplif...

According to the shortage of the traditional offset line in Doherty power amplifier, a new offset line technique is proposed to match carrier amplifier with the load and to improve the performance of the Doherty amplifier. By simulation of the computer software, a higher efficiency is obtained using the new offset line comparing the two kinds of offset lines. The new offset line technique could...

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...

In this paper, the operational behavior of three-way Doherty amplifier loaded with harmonic control circuits is analyzed, including the efficiency and linearity. Amplifier is designed in configuration with two quarter-wave impedance transformers in the output combining circuit with LDMOSFETs in carrier and peaking amplifiers with the same periphery and in periphery relations 1:2.5:2.5. The sign...

– In this paper the operation behavior of three-way Doherty amplifier is analyzed, including the efficiency and linearity. Amplifier is designed in the configuration with two quarter-wave impedance transformers in the output combining circuit with LDMOSFETs in carrier and peaking amplifies. The signals for linearization (the fundamental signals’ second harmonics-IM2 and fourth-order nonlinear s...

The paper describes the design, realization and characterization of a set of hybrid medium-power RF power amplifiers, based on a commercial packaged GaN HEMT and developed through a low-cost microstrip process. Two different design solutions suitable for wireless applications are presented: the first, intended for a constant-envelope modulation (with reference to the GSM standard), is a Class F...

The Doherty amplifier architecture is a well known technique offering the potential to improve transmitter efficiency especially for signal protocols that exhibit high peak-toaverage power ratios. Although the Doherty approach has significant efficiency advantages, it generally must be augmented with some form of correction or linearity enhancement in the full transmitter design. Wireless infra...