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Research on PAE of Doherty Amplifier with Low-pass Filter of Wide Stopband  

Jung, Du-Won (Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Soongsil University)
Seo, Chul-Hun (Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Soongsil University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.46, no.1, 2009 , pp. 107-111 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the power added efficiency(PAE) of a Doherty amplifier has been improved by applying Photonic Bandgap(PBG) characteristics on the output of amplifier. As a result of the high order harmonics termination, excellent improvement in PAE, maximum output power as well as linearity is obtained. The PAE is improved as much as relatively 35% compared with a conventional Doherty amplifier. Moreover, size of LPF is reduced by PBG characteristics. Therefore the whole amplifier circuit size is considerably reduced by diminishing in size of the LPF as compared with a Doherty amplifier using conventional LPFs.
Keywords
Doherty amplifier; Power added efficiency; Low-pass filter; Photonic bandgap;
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