• DocumentCode
    1546022
  • Title

    Design of dual-band tri-way GaN doherty power amplifier with frequency dependent power division

  • Author

    Li, Xin ; Chen, Wei-Hao ; Feng, Zhen-Hua ; Ghannouchi, Fadhel M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    13
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    797
  • Lastpage
    798
  • Abstract
    A dual-band tri-way Doherty power amplifier (PA) with frequency dependent power division is proposed. Compared to the dual-band two-way Doherty PA, the power back-off range of the dual-band tri-way Doherty PA is extended efficiently. Due to frequency dependent power division, the efficiency of the proposed PA is improved at two different frequencies concurrently. The measured results show that power-added efficiencies of 61 and 44% are reached at the 9%dB back-off point from saturation at 0.9 and 2.31%GHz, respectively.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; gallium compounds; power amplifiers; power dividers; wide band gap semiconductors; GaN; back-off point; dual-band tri-way Doherty power amplifier; dual-band two-way Doherty PA; efficiency 44 percent; efficiency 61 percent; frequency 0.9 GHz; frequency 2.31 GHz; frequency dependent power division; power back-off range; power-added efficiency; saturation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2012.1203
  • Filename
    6222111