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Design of a Compact GaN MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier and System Level Analysis With X-Parameters for 5G Communications
摘要： This paper presents a monolithic microwave integrated circuit Doherty power amplifier (DPA) operating at sub-6 GHz for 5G communication applications by a 0.25-μm gallium nitride high-electron mobility transistor process. A compact impedance inverter and output matching of the DPA are achieved using a transmission line network and shunt capacitors. Also, the size ratio of power cells in the main and auxiliary amplifiers is optimized for a high efficiency at output power backoff (OPBO). The measured peak output power (Pout) and the 1-dB compression point (P1 dB) are 38.7 and 32.1 dBm, respectively, at 5.9 GHz. The power-added efficiency at 6-dB OPBO is up to 49.5%. Without digital predistortion (DPD), the DPA can deliver an average Pout of 23.5 dBm with error vector magnitude (EVM) <?28 dB and 21.5 dBm with EVM <?32 dB for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and 256-QAM signals, respectively. The measured X-parameters are employed to further investigate the DPA nonlinear characteristics and verify the accuracy of conventionally used power amplifier characterization/measurement methods for system-level design and testing applications. The simulated results based on the X-parameters also indicate that the average output power can be enhanced up to 25.7 dBm with DPD for 256-QAM.
关键词： 5G communication,monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC),X-parameters,power-added efficiency (PAE),power amplifier (PA),Doherty,gallium nitride (GaN)
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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[IEEE 2018 Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) - Mashhad (2018.5.8-2018.5.10)] Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Iranian Conference on - L-Band Power Amplifier Design with Discrete GaN Transistor
摘要： In this paper, design and fabrication of a L band solid-state high power amplifier is reported. GaN Transistor is the main active high power element in this amplifier design. ADS simulation is used to design and optimize the input and output matching of the transistor. With these optimized matching networks, more than 100 watt output power is obtained. For the GaN transistor, bias sequencing circuits in the gate and drain terminals are controlled by a digital board. Furthermore, a control loop using software is utilized to achieve a better operation in the fabricated system.
关键词： Power amplifier,Output power,Gain,power added efficiency,GaN technology
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14