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Performance Enhancement of 3-way Doherty Power Amplifier using Gate and Drain bias control  

Lee, Kwang-Ho (Dankook University)
Lee, Suk-Hui (Dankook University)
Bang, Sung-Il (Dankook University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.48, no.1, 2011 , pp. 77-83 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this thesis, 50W Doherty amplifier was designed and implemented for Beyond 3G's repeater and base-station. Auxiliary amplifier of doherty amplifier was implemented by Gate bias control circuit. Though gate bias control circuit solved auxiliary's bias problem, output characteristics of doherty amplifier was limited. To enhance the output characteristic relativize Drain control circuit And To improve power efficiency make 3-way Doherty power amplifier. therefore, 3-way GDCD (Gate and Drain bias Control Doherty) power amplifier is embodied to drain bias circuit for General Doherty power amplifier. The 3-way GDCD power amplifier composed of matching circuit with chip capacitor and micro strip line using FR4 dielectric substance of specific inductive capacity(${\varepsilon}r$) 4.6, dielectric substance height(H) 30 Mills, and 2.68 Mills(2 oz) of copper plate thickness(T). Experiment result satisfied specification of amplifier with gains are 57.03 dB in 2.11 ~ 2.17 GHz, 3GPP frequency band, PEP output is 50.30 dBm, W-CDMA average power is 47.01 dBm, and ACLR characteristics at 5MHz offset frequency band station is -40.45 dBc. Especially, 3-way DCHD power amplifier showed excellence efficiency performance improvement in same ACLR than general doherty power amplifier.
Keywords
doherty; power amplifier; gate bias; drain bias;
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