Design of a Concurrent Dual-Band 1.8-2.4-GHz GaN-HEMT Doherty Power Amplifier
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2012

In this paper, the design, implementation, and experimental results of a high-efficiency dual-band GaN-HEMT Doherty power amplifier (DPA) are presented. An extensive discussion about the design of the passive structures is presented showing different possible topologies of the dual-band DPA. One of the proposed topologies is used to design a dual-band DPA in hybrid technology for the frequency bands 1.8 and 2.4 GHz with the second efficiency peak at 6-dB output power back-off (OBO). For a continuous-wave output power of 20 W, the measured power-added efficiency (PAE) is 64% and 54% at 1.8 and 2.4 GHz, respectively. At -dB OBO, the resulting measured PAEs were 60% and 44% in the two frequency bands. Linearized concurrent modulated measurement using 10-MHz LTE signal with 7-dB peak-to-average-ratio (PAR) at 1.8 GHz and 10-MHz WiMAX signal with 8.5-dB PAR at 2.4 GHz shows an average PAE of 34%, at an adjacent channel leakage ratio of -48 dBc and -46 dBc at 1.8 and 2.4 GHz, respectively.

model

microwave

dual-band amplifier

efficiency

dual-band matching

Doherty power amplifier (DPA)

transmitters

Författare

Paul Saad

Gigahertzcentrum

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik

P. Colantonio

Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata

L. Piazzon

Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata

F. Giannini

Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata

Kristoffer Andersson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik

Gigahertzcentrum

Christian Fager

Gigahertzcentrum

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

0018-9480 (ISSN) 15579670 (eISSN)

Vol. 60 6 1840-1849 6176279

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2012.2189120

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