摘要
In this article,a graphic design method for broadband Doherty power amplifier(DPA) is proposed based on the basic principle of impedance matching with the help of Smith chart.The proposed graphic method avoids the complex formula derivation in the traditional amplifier circuit design process,and the design process is more simple and intuitive.Besides,it only takes three steps to build the load modulation network(LMN) of two power amplifiers(PA) of the DPA.Besides,a capacitor is used to replace the parasitic parameters of the transistor,and the LMN designed in the two modes is used for exploration and comparison.Further more,the output impedance of the peaking PA is introduced to make the reflection coefficient trajectory on Smith chart lowfrequency dispersion so as to expand the bandwidth of the DPA at the output power back-off(OBO) level.It would not affect the performance of DPA in the saturation(SAT) state.In this way,a broadband DPA can be implemented easily.To validate the proposed design method,a broadband DPA operating from 1.9to 2.6 GHz is designed and measured based on the proposed method.Under the continuous-wave excitation,the fabricated DPA has a 6 dB OBO efficiency of 48%-56% and a SAT efficiency of 64%-73% from 1.75 to 2.45 GHz,and the peak output power is 48.9-49.8 dBm.
基金
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62001061)。
