High efficiency power amplifiers for modern mobile communications: The load-modulation approach

C Ramella, A Piacibello, R Quaglia, V Camarchia… - Electronics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Modern mobile communication signals require power amplifiers able to maintain very high
efficiency in a wide range of output power levels, which is a major issue for classical power …

Analysis and design of a Doherty-like RF-input load modulated balanced amplifier

PH Pednekar, W Hallberg, C Fager… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an analysis and design technique for an RF-input load modulated
balanced amplifier (LMBA) with Doherty-like efficiency enhancement characteristics. The …

Exploiting phase for extended efficiency range in symmetrical Doherty power amplifiers

MR Hasin, J Kitchen - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a symmetrical Doherty power amplifier (DPA) that exhibits an extended
high-efficiency range with respect to output power backoff (OBO). The presented theoretical …

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 …

A 28-GHz symmetrical Doherty power amplifier using stacked-FET cells

DP Nguyen, T Pham, AV Pham - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A two-stage Ka-band Doherty power amplifier (DPA) using a stacked field-effect transistor
(FET) cell is presented. We demonstrate, for the first time, the two critical parameters in a …

A Compact Ka-Band Integrated Doherty Amplifier With Reconfigurable Input Network

DP Nguyen, BL Pham, AV Pham - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the design of an ultracompact monolithic millimeter-wave
integrated circuit Doherty power amplifier (DPA) using a novel reconfigurable input network …

Highly Efficient Asymmetric Class-F−1/F GaN Doherty Amplifier

J Kim - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new asymmetric Class-F-1/F Doherty power amplifier (DPA)
consisting of a Class-F-1 carrier amplifier and a Class-F peaking amplifier. The asymmetric …

Doherty power amplifier with extended high-efficiency range based on the utilization of multiple output power back-off parameters

YC Choi, W Choi, H Oh, Y Chen, J Shin… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel method of extending the high-efficiency range of Doherty power
amplifiers (DPAs) by utilizing multiple output power back-off (OBO) parameters. The OBO …

Compact phase-reconfigurable couplers with wide tuning range

YF Pan, SY Zheng, WS Chan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the stringent requirements of the emerging wireless communication system, the
components should exhibit high flexibility in the control of operating frequency, amplitude …

Application of Load-Pull X-Parameters for GaN Device-Based Load Modulated Balanced Power Amplifier Design

M Wu, S Wang, C Yu, G Crupi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, the design of a load-modulated balanced power amplifier (LMBA), which is
composed of a pair of classical balanced power amplifier (BA) and a signal control power …