Broadband Doherty Power Amplifier With Transferable Continuous Mode

In this paper, in-band continuous mode transferring (CMT) method is presented for designing broadband Doherty power amplifier (DPA). Specifically, transferable continuous mode, transferring between class-J continuum to class-F−1 continuum, is introduced into DPA at output back-off (OBO) power level for improving bandwidth and efficiency. For validation, a broadband DPA with operation mode transferring from continuous class-J to continuous class-F−1 is designed, fabricated and measured. Experimental results show the drain efficiencies (DEs) of the fabricated DPA are 46.3%-57.7% and 58.4%-69.1% at 6 dB OBO and peaking power levels over 1.7-2.6 GHz. The saturation power of this DPA is 43.1-45.2 dBm with a gain of 9.1-11.2 dB in the interested band. Furthermore, when the fabricated DPA is stimulated by a 20 MHz wideband signal with a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of 7.05 dB at 2.4 GHz, the measured average power is 36.5 dBm with an average DE of 45.7%, and the measured adjacent channel leakage ratios (ACLRs) are −31.9 dBc and −50.4 dBc before and after DPD technique, respectively.

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