Ultra-Wideband Doherty-Like Power Amplifier
Paper i proceeding, 2018

This paper presents an innovative technique, distributed efficient power amplifier (DEPA), that is suitable for wideband/multiband applications using signals with large Peak-to-Average-Power-Ratio (PAPR). DEPA replaces the auxiliary amplifier of the conventional Doherty PA (DPA) by N auxiliary sub-amplifiers distributed along an output combiner made of N-1 line sections and eliminates the load modulation associated with conventional DPA. A wideband DEPA demonstrator is designed to cover most of the wireless communications bands within two-octave bandwidth 0.65-2.6 GHz. The experimental results show that the efficiency levels are between 41-59 % and 52-66 % for output power levels at pmb9 dB OBO and peak output power, respectively. Linearized modulated measurements using five 10 MHz LTE carriers with pmb 9 dB PAPR show an adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) below -51 dBc.

GaN-HEMT

multiband

wideband

Doherty

power amplifier

high-PAPR

energy efficiency

Distributed

Författare

Paul Saad

Ericsson AB

Rui Hou

Ericsson AB

Richard Hellberg

Ericsson AB

Bo Berglund

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap

Ericsson AB

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

0149645X (ISSN)

Vol. 2018-June 1215-1218 8439677

2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2018
Philadelphia, USA,

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Signalbehandling

Annan elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439677

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