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A Study on Linearity and Efficiency Enhancement of Power Amplifier  

Jeon Joong-Sung (한국해양대학교 부설 산업기술연구소)
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Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology / v.29, no.6, 2005 , pp. 618-627 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we have compared and analyzed the performance of high amplifier using Doherty technique to improve linearity and efficiency of base station and repeater Power amplifier for WCDMA. This Doherty amplifier implements with 3dB branch line coupler and $90^{\circ}C$ transmission line The phase offset line is designed to maintain the high linearity and efficiency at the low efficiency Period of the power amplifier CW 1-tone experimental results at the WCDMA frequency $2.11{\sim}2.17GHz$ shows that Doherty amplifier which achieves power add efficiency(PAE) of 50% at 6dB back off the point from maximum output power 52.3 dBm, obtains higher efficiency of 13.3% than class AB Finding optimum bias Point after adjusted gate voltage, Doherty amplifier shows that $IMD_3$ improves 4dB.
Keywords
WCDMA; Doherty amplifier; Load-pull; Class AB; Class C; Power add efficiency;
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