A 460MHz three-stage Doherty power amplifier with uneven power driving

Author

Luo, Xiaojun ; Liu, Taijun ; Ye, Yan ; Cen, Like ; Zhao, Yangping ; Sun, Chao

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Ningbo Univ., Ningbo, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

2404

Lastpage

2407

Abstract

This paper proposes a 450-470 MHz high efficiency three-stage Doherty power amplifier for IMT-Advanced system. The input matching and output matching are achieved by utilizing microstrip line and lumped-parameter components. Two 3 dB couplers are utilized to carry out uneven input power dividing so as to omit the two quarter-wave lines which are usually located before the main amplifier and the second peaking amplifier respectively. The simulation results show that the peak output power is 54.0 dBm, and the efficiency in the output power backed off 9.5 dB region is effectively improved. The gain flatness can maintain ±0.2 dB in the 450-470 MHz. Moreover, another two input dividing ratio are discussed, obtaining the power additional efficiency and power gain respectively.

Keywords

UHF power amplifiers; lumped parameter networks; microstrip lines; power dividers; IMT-Advanced system; frequency 450 MHz to 470 MHz; gain 3 dB; gain 9 dB; lumped-parameter components; microstrip line; power additional efficiency; power divider; quarter-wave lines; three-stage doherty power amplifier; uneven power driving; Gain; Impedance; Impedance matching; Logic gates; OFDM; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Doherty; IMT-Advanced; LDMOS; power amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhejiang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECC.2011.6067919

Filename

6067919