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The implementation of Gate Control Hybrid Doherty Amplifier

효율개선을 위한 Gate 제어 Hybrid Doherty 증폭기 구현

  • Son Kil-young (Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Lee Suk-hui (Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Bang Sung-il (Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Dankook University)
  • 손길영 (단국대학교 전자컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 이석희 (단국대학교 전자컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 방성일 (단국대학교 전자컴퓨터공학과)
  • Published : 2005.03.01
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Abstract

In this paper, design and implement 60W Doherty power amplifiers for 3GPP repeater and base station transceiver system. Efficiency improvement and high power property of Doherty power amplifier is distinguishable; however implementation of assistance amplifer is difficult, though. To solve the problem, therefore, GCHD (Gate Control Hybrid Doherty) power amplifier is embodied to gate bias adjusament circuit of assistance amplifier to General Doherty power amplifier. Experiment result shows that $2.11\~2.17GHz$, 3GPP operating frequency band, with 62.55 dB gain, PEP output is 50,76 dBm, W-CDMA average power is 47.81 dBm, and -40.05 dBc ACLR characteristic in 5MHz offset frequency band. Each of the parameter satisfied amplifier specification which we want to design. Especially, GCHD power amplifier shows proper efficiency performance improvement in uniformity ACLR than general power amplifier.

본 논문에서는 3GPP 중계기 및 기지국용 60W급 Doherty 전력증폭기를 설계 및 제작하였다. Doherty 전력증폭기는 효율개선과 고출력 특성이 뛰어나지만 보조증폭기의 구현이 어렵다. 이를 해결하고자 일반적인 Doherty 전력증폭기에 보조증폭기의 Gate 바이어스 조절회로를 첨가한 GCHD(Gate Control Hybrid Doherty) 전력증폭기를 구현하였다. 실험결과 3GPP 동작주파수 대역인 $2.11\~2.17GHz$에서 이득이 62.55 dB이고, PEP 출력이 50.76 dBm, W-CDMA 평균전력 47.81 dBm, 5MHz offset 주파수대역에서 -40.05 dBc의 ACLR 특성을 가졌으며, 각각의 파라미터는 설계하고자 하는 증폭기의 사양을 만족하였다. 특히 GCHD 전력증폭기는 일반전력증폭기에 비해 ACLR에 따른 효율 개선성능이 우수하였다.

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