A high-efficiency multistage Doherty power amplifier for WCDMA

Author

Srirattana, N. ; Raghavan, A. ; Heo, D. ; Allen, P.E. ; Laskar, J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

10-13 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

397

Lastpage

400

Abstract

A comprehensive analysis of multistage Doherty amplifier, which can be used to achieve higher efficiency at great back-off compared to the classical Doherty amplifier, is presented. A novel set of design equations for a generalized N-stage Doherty amplifier is introduced. For the first time, this technique is applied to the design of a WCDMA power amplifier (PA). The designed PA meets WCDMA requirements, and exhibit a power-added efficiency (PAE) of 34.5% at 6 dB back-off and 16.9% at 12 dB back-off. These PAEs are 2 times and 4 times better, respectively, than that of a single stage linear PA at the same back-off levels. The PA is capable of delivering up to 28.6 dBm of output power, and has a maximum adjacent channel power leakage ratio of -38 dBc and -51 DBc at 5 and 10 MHz offset, respectively. To the best of the author´s knowledge, these represent the best reported results of a Doherty amplifier for WCDMA application in the 1.95 GHz band, to date.

Keywords

UHF amplifiers; code division multiple access; power amplifiers; wideband amplifiers; 1.95 GHz; 10 MHz; 16.9 percent; 34.5 percent; 5 MHz; WCDMA power amplifier; adjacent channel power leakage ratio; multistage Doherty power amplifier; power-added efficiency; Equations; High power amplifiers; Impedance; Multiaccess communication; Power amplifiers; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Power generation; Power transmission lines; Transmission line theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Conference, 2003. RAWCON '03. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7829-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAWCON.2003.1227976

Filename

1227976