• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.807-813
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• 2008

The gate-biases of the Doherty power amplifier are controlled to improve the linearity performance. The linearity improvement mechanism of the Doherty amplifier is the harmonic cancellation of the carrier and peaking amplifier at the output power combining point. However, it is difficult to cancel the harmonic power for the broader power range because the condition for cancelling is varied by power. For the linearity improvement, we have explored the linearity characteristic of the Doherty amplifier according to the input power and gate biases of the carrier and peaking amplifier. To extend the region of harmonic power cancellation, we have injected the proper gate bias to the carrier and peaking amplifier according to the input power levels. To validate the linearity improvement, the Doherty amplifier is designed using Eudyna 10-W PEP GaN HEMT EGN010MKs at 2.345 GHz and optimized to achieve a high linearity and efficiency at an average output power of 33 dBm, backed off about 10 dB from the $P_{1dB}$. In the experiments, the envelope tracking Doherty amplifier delivers a significantly improved adjacent channel leakage ratio performance of -37.4 dBc, which is an enhancement of about 2.8 dB, maintaining the high PAE of about 26 % for the WCDMA 1-FA signal at an average output power of 33 dBm. For the 802.16-2004 signal, the amplifier is also improved by about 2 dB, -35 dB.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.12-17
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• 2009

In this paper, We play it for the purpose of study about the power amplifier which applied DGS and adaptive bias circuit structure to general Doherty amplifier for the efficiency of a RF power amplifier and a linearity improvement in the WiBro band. As for the IMD3, 3.4dBc was improved with -26.3dBc when we did the measurement result existing Doherty power amplifier and comparison of the Doherty power amplifier which applied an adaptive bias circuit and the DGS which proposed in this paper, and the mean power efficiency verified what was increased in 37%. Also, we were able to know PAE of 36.6% with output power 34.0dBm in P1dB when magnitude of an input signal was 25.6dBm. we did 6dB back off in output P1dB in order to confirm the ACPR which was a nonlinear characteristic and measured the ACPR. we showed the -34.55dBc which was a value of -34.5dBc or below in the 4.77MHz off-set that was a transmission standard. Therefore, we were able to know that we were satisfied with a spectrum mask standard.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.229-235
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• 2014

This paper presents the Doherty power amplifier with a digitally controlled analog predistorter circuit of Scintera Corp. to produce high power efficiency and high linearity performance. The analog predistorter improves the linearity performance because of controlling amplitude and phase values of input signal in order to improve intermodulation performance of power amplifier. Also, the power amplifier is designed by the Doherty technology to obtain the high efficiency performance. To validate the Scintera's analog predistorter, we are implemented the power amplifier with Doherty method at center frequency 2150 MHz. Compared with the balanced amplifier, the power amplifier is improved above 11% enhanced efficiency and more than 15 dB ACPR improvement.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.51-59
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an inverted type asymmetric Doherty amplifier with optimized efficiency characteristic in wanted output power back-off (OPBO) range according to peak to average power ratio of input signal In order to obtain optimized efficiency of the asymmetric Doherty amplifier in wanted OPBO, peak power ratio between main amplifier and peaking amplifier was determined and then impedance of 90 degrees impedance transformer was obtained by peak power ratio. The offset line length and peak dividing ratio of the asymmetric Doherty amplifier were also calculated. From the measurement results, the proposed amplifier has achieved 40 % drain efficiency and -35 dBc adjacent channel leakage ratio at the average output power of 48.7 dBm for CDMA 2000 1x 3-FA test signal.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.220-226
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• 2008

This paper proposes the Reconfigurable Doherty Amplifier(RDA) with asymmetric structure which has ${\lambda}/4$ impedance transformer for modulating the load impedance in peaking amplifier path. This structure is possible to implement a compact size for N-stage multi Doherty amplifier and to get almost same characteristics that is compared to conventional Doherty amplifier. To realize the high efficiency amplifier, we were implemented 45 Watts power amplifier at transmitter band of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access(WCDMA) base-station. As a result, in case of WCDMA 1 Frequency Allocation(FA) input signals, this amplifier has obtained a 26.3% Power Added Efficiency(PAE) at 8 dB back-off point from P1dB and an Adjacent Channel Leakage Power(ACLR) is -40.4 dBc at center frequency ${\pm}5MHz$ deviation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.422-427
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• 2005

In this paper, Doherty amplifier is designed by the need of improving the linearity and efficiency of wireless network and repeater for WCDMA. It is designed to maintain the high linearity and efficiency at the low efficiency period of the power amplifier after analyzing Doherty technique using the active load-pull in condition of the high efficiency power amplifier implementation according to the variation of input power. CW 1-tone experimental results at the WCDMA frequency 2.11$\~$2.17 CHz shows that Doherty amplifier, which achieves pore. add efficiency(PAE) 50$\%$ at 6dB back off the point from maximum output power 52.3dBm, obtains higher efficiency of 13.3$\%$ than class AB. finding optimum bias point after adjusted gate voltage, Doherty amplifier shows that IMD3 improves 4dB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.9
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• pp.55-59
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• 2008

In this paper, the linearity of Doherty amplifier has been improved by applying a compact slow-wave microstrip branch-line coupler on the output of Doherty amplifier. The proposed branch coupler has four microstrip high-low impedance resonant cells periodically placed inside the branch-line coupler to result in high slow-wave effect. The new coupler not only effectively reduces the occupied area to 30% of the conventional branch-line coupler at 1.8GHz, but also has high second harmonic suppression performance. We obtained the 3rd-order intermodulation distortion ($IMD_3$) of -31.16 dBc for CDMA applications with that of maintaining the constant power added efficiency (PAE). The IMD3 performance is improved as much as -7 dBc compared with a Doherty amplifier.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.158-160
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• 2008

A highly linear and efficient GaN HEMT Doherty amplifier for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) repeaters is presented. For better performance, the adaptive gate bias control of the peaking amplifier using the power tracking circuit and the shunt capacitors is employed. The measured one-carrier WCDMA results show an adjacent channel leakage ratio of -43.2 dBc at ${\pm}2.5$-MHz offset with a power added efficiency of 40.1% at an average output power of 37 dBm, which is a 7.5 dB back-off power from the saturated output power.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2004

This paper implemented 2.14GHz band Adaptive Hybrid Doherty (AHD) amplifier, as well as, wished to improve the high power characteristics and efficiency by composing bias adjustment circuit with LDMOS. Finally, through CAE, confirmed that AHD amplifier have superior performance than hybrid balanced amplifier. Superior characteristics of AHD amplifier is expected to affect immensely in amplifier field hereafter.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1934-1939
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• 2006

Current digital communication system is selecting very various digital Modulation way. Need linear power amplifier necessarily to reduce interference for contiguity channel maximum in this communication system and at the same time, power amplifier of high efficiency is required. In this paper Compare with result of equilibrium power amplifier that design Doherty power amplifier of way that linearity and efficiency are improved at the same time through simulation optimization techniques and at the same time design through simulation, efficiency 20% linearity showed 10dB that is improved.