A review of GaN on SiC high electron-mobility power transistors and MMICs

RS Pengelly, SM Wood, JW Milligan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium-nitride power transistor (GaN HEMT) and integrated circuit technologies have
matured dramatically over the last few years, and many hundreds of thousands of devices …

A review of GaN HEMT broadband power amplifiers

KH Hamza, D Nirmal - AEU-International Journal of Electronics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The unique material properties of GaN, wide bandgap, high thermal conductivity, high
breakdown voltage, high electron mobility and the device properties of GaN HEMT (High …

The Doherty power amplifier: Review of recent solutions and trends

V Camarchia, M Pirola, R Quaglia, S Jee… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an extensive review of the most up-to-date papers on microwave Doherty
power amplifiers is presented. The main applications are discussed, together with the …

Symmetrical Doherty power amplifier with extended efficiency range

M Özen, K Andersson, C Fager - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A symmetrical Doherty power amplifier (PA) with an extended efficiency range is proposed.
This paper proves the existence of a class of symmetrical Doherty PAs having efficiency …

High-efficiency Doherty power amplifiers: Historical aspect and modern trends

A Grebennikov, S Bulja - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern wireless communication systems, it is very important to realize simultaneously
high-efficiency and linear operation of power amplifiers. This paper-overview describes the …

A modified Doherty power amplifier with extended bandwidth and reconfigurable efficiency

D Gustafsson, CM Andersson… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper derives the theory and presents measurements of a new power amplifier based
on the Doherty power amplifier topology. It is theoretically shown that the proposed amplifier …

A modified Doherty configuration for broadband amplification using symmetrical devices

DYT Wu, S Boumaiza - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new Doherty amplifier configuration with an intrinsically broadband characteristic is
presented based on the synthesis of key ideas derived from the analyses of the load …

Doherty's legacy: a history of the Doherty power amplifier from 1936 to the present day

R Pengelly, C Fager, M Ozen - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Eighty years ago, William Doherty invented a PA architecture that has played-and will
continue to play-an important role in the development of energy-efficient radio transmitters …

A generic theory for design of efficient three-stage Doherty power amplifiers

H Zhou, JR Perez-Cisneros, S Hesami… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An analytical load—pull-based design methodology for three-stage Doherty power
amplifiers (PAs) is presented and demonstrated. A compact output combiner network …

Amping up the PA for 5G: Efficient GaN power amplifiers with dynamic supplies

Z Popovic - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Signals designed for high-capacity communications result in high peak-to-average ratio
(PAR) waveforms that the transmitter power amplifier (PA) must amplify with low distortion …