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 …

Breaking the bandwidth limit: A review of broadband Doherty power amplifier design for 5G

G Nikandish, RB Staszewski… - IEEE Microwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generation wireless network, 5G, is expected to provide ubiquitous connections to
billions of devices as well as to unlock many new services through multigigabit-per-second …

A broadband high-efficiency Doherty power amplifier with integrated compensating reactance

J Xia, M Yang, Y Guo, A Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a high-efficiency gallium nitride Doherty power amplifier (DPA) using an
integrated compensating reactance (CR) for broadband operation. With an additional …

A 1.8–3.8-GHz power amplifier with 40% efficiency at 8-dB power back-off

P Saad, R Hou, R Hellberg… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel power combining architecture, referred to as distributed efficient
power amplifier (DEPA) that mitigates the inherent bandwidth limiting factors in a Doherty …

Bandpass filtering Doherty power amplifier with enhanced efficiency and wideband harmonic suppression

SY Zheng, ZW Liu, YM Pan, Y Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is an ever increasing demand for both function integration and improved performance
in wireless communication devices. Therefore, the integration of efficient linearizing …

The influence of the output impedances of peaking power amplifier on broadband Doherty amplifiers

W Shi, S He, F You, H Xie, G Naah… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effect of the output impedance of peaking power amplifier (PA) on Doherty PAs (DPAs)
is analyzed in this paper. In the design procedure of DPAs, the ideal case is that the output …

A Doherty amplifier with modified load modulation scheme based on load–pull data

DP Nguyen, J Curtis, AV Pham - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design and development of a Ka-band Doherty power amplifier (DPA) that
achieves high efficiency at power backoff (PBO) using a new load modulation scheme and a …

Theory and design methodology for reverse-modulated dual-branch power amplifiers applied to a 4G/5G broadband GaN MMIC PA design

Y Zhao, X Li, C Gai, C Liu, T Qi, B Hu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a generalized theory and new design methodology for reverse-load-
modulated dual-branch (RMDB) power amplifiers (PAs), which uses a current-biased …

A review of Doherty power amplifier and load modulated balanced amplifier for 5G technology

S Makhsuci, S Masoumeh Navidi… - … Journal of Circuit …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, functionality of the Doherty power amplifiers (DPAs) along with their design
constraints such as DPA combining techniques are reviewed. This is because power …

Voltage-combined CMOS Doherty power amplifier based on transformer

Y Cho, K Moon, B Park, J Kim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a voltage-combined CMOS Doherty power amplifier (PA) based on a
transformer. The dynamic load modulation of the two-way transformer is analyzed in detail. A …