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A New Wideband Distributed Doherty Amplifier for WCDMA Repeater Applications

Yong‐Sub Lee, Mun‐Woo Lee, Sang‐Ho Kam, Yoon‐Ha Jeong

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A new wideband distributed Doherty amplifier (WDDA) for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) repeater applications is reported. The distributed structure provides wideband performance while not needing anN-way splitter and combiner. The two-stage Doherty amplifiers achieve high gain and high efficiency. Also, the linearity of the WDDA is improved by the post-distortion using gate bias optimization of the Doherty amplifiers. For verification, the proposed WDDA is implemented using GaN HEMTs and tested with a one-carrier WCDMA signal at 2.14 GHz. From the measured results at an average output power of 36 dBm (10 dB back-off power), the WDDA shows an adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) of - 45 dBc at plusmn 5 MHz offset with a total gain over 24 dB and a total power-added efficiency over 15% over a 160 MHz bandwidth.

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A new wideband distributed Doherty amplifier (WDDA) for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) repeater applications is reported. The distributed structure provides wideband performance while not needing anN-way splitter and combiner. The two-stage Doherty amplifiers achieve high gain and high efficiency. Also, the linearity of the WDDA is improved by the post-distortion using gate bias optimization of the Doherty amplifiers. For verification, the proposed WDDA is implemented using GaN HEMTs and tested with a one-carrier WCDMA signal at 2.14 GHz. From the measured results at an average output power of 36 dBm (10 dB back-off power), the WDDA shows an adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) of - 45 dBc at plusmn 5 MHz offset with a total gain over 24 dB and a total power-added efficiency over 15% over a 160 MHz bandwidth.

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A new wideband distributed Doherty amplifier (WDDA) for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) repeater applications is reported. The distributed structure provides wideband performance while not needing anN-way splitter and combiner. The two-stage Doherty amplifiers achieve high gain and high efficiency. Also, the linearity of the WDDA is improved by the post-distortion using gate bias optimization of the Doherty amplifiers. For verification, the proposed WDDA is implemented using GaN HEMTs and tested with a one-carrier WCDMA signal at 2.14 GHz. From the measured results at an average output power of 36 dBm (10 dB back-off power), the WDDA shows an adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) of - 45 dBc at plusmn 5 MHz offset with a total gain over 24 dB and a total power-added efficiency over 15% over a 160 MHz bandwidth.

Key concepts: Wideband, Adjacent channel, Amplifier, Doherty amplifier, Adjacent channel power ratio, Electronic engineering, Linearity, Electrical engineering

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