Title :
On the bandwidth performance of Doherty amplifiers
Author :
de Vreede, Leo C. N. ; Gajadharsing, R. ; Neo, W.C.E.
Author_Institution :
Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
The theoretical bandwidth constrains of conventional symmetric and asymmetric Doherty amplifiers are evaluated and compared to those of the recently introduced novel three and 4-way Doherty amplifier configurations. Performance trends are identified and backed-up by practical results.
Keywords :
power amplifiers; 4-way Doherty amplifier configurations; asymmetric Doherty amplifiers; bandwidth performance; power amplifier; symmetric Doherty amplifiers; theoretical bandwidth constrains; Bandwidth; Complexity theory; Impedance; Peak to average power ratio; Performance evaluation; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Doherty; bandwidth; efficiency; power amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Symposium (IWS), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/IEEE-IWS.2013.6616839
