A highly efficient asymmetric Doherty Power Amplifier with a new output combining circuit

Author

Son, Junghwan ; Kim, Ildu ; Moon, Junghwan ; Lee, Juyeon ; Kim, Bumman

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

7-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An asymmetric Doherty Power Amplifier (ADPA) is introduced using a new output combining circuit for easy of implementation with a large matching tolerance. The proposed APDA has been implemented using GaN HEMT devices at 2.6 GHz for WiMAX signal with 5MHz bandwidth and 8.3 dB peak to average power ratio. This ADPA delivers a saturated output power of 51.7 dBm and a drain efficiency of 60.4% at an average output power of 43.6 dBm. After linearization using digital feedback predistortion technique, the ADPA satisfies the linearity specification with -51.98 dBc of adjacent channel leakage ratio at 10MHz offset. To the best of our knowledge, the drain efficiency of 60.4% is the highest efficiency at 2.6GHz frequency for a WiMAX signal with 8.3dB PAPR.

Keywords

HEMT integrated circuits; III-V semiconductors; UHF integrated circuits; UHF power amplifiers; WiMax; feedback amplifiers; gallium compounds; high electron mobility transistors; linearisation techniques; wide band gap semiconductors; APDA; GaN; HEMT device; PAPR; WiMAX signal; adjacent channel leakage ratio; asymmetric Doherty power amplifier; bandwidth 5 MHz; digital feedback predistortion technique; drain efficiency; frequency 2.6 GHz; linearity specification; linearization; matching tolerance; output combining circuit; Gallium nitride; Impedance; Linearity; Moon; Peak to average power ratio; Power generation; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1692-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMCAS.2011.6105792

Filename

6105792