Inverse active load-pull in an inverse Doherty amplifier

Thomas M. Hone; Souheil Ben Smida; Kevin A. Morris; Mark A. Beach; Joe P. McGeehan; Jonathan Lees; Johannes Benedikt; Paul J. Tasker

doi:10.1109/PAWR.2013.6490170

Inverse active load-pull in an inverse Doherty amplifier

Thomas M. Hone, Souheil Ben Smida, Kevin A. Morris, Mark A. Beach, Joe P. McGeehan, Jonathan Lees, Johannes Benedikt, Paul J. Tasker

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A dedicated inverse Doherty amplifier is presented in this paper using commercially available 10W GaN HEMT devices. Results show that an emulated 1W peaking amplifier and a 10W carrier amplifier can be used to create a highly efficient amplification architecture. Ideal inverse active load-pull is introduced theoretically with experimental results showing good agreement with the theory. A generic characterization scan of the inverse Doherty amplifier yields state of the art drain and power added efficiency in the output power back-off. A drain and power added efficiency of 60% and 50% are obtained at 10dB output power backoff respectively with a maximum output power of 41dBm at 2.1GHz.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 IEEE Topical Conference on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-2918-7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-2915-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PAWR.2013.6490170
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Digital Doherty
Dual-drive
Inverse active load-pull

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