L-band, high efficiency 25 watt power amplifier using PHEMT for base station system

被引:2
作者
Wang, YH [1 ]
Liu, HZ [1 ]
Huang, HK [1 ]
Wang, CC [1 ]
Chang, CH [1 ]
Wu, W [1 ]
Wu, CL [1 ]
Chang, CS [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Inst Microelect, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
来源
EDMO2003: 11TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRON DEVICES FOR MICROWAVE AND OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS | 2003年
关键词
power amplifier; PHEMT; PHS; base station; pre-matched FET; ACP;
D O I
10.1109/EDMO.2003.1259986
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
In this paper, a 1.9 GHz 25 watt high power amplifier using AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs PHEMT device for PHS base station applications is demonstrated. This amplifier utilizes a pre-matched FET which is composed of only a single 50 mm FET device and a NUS capacitor in a CuW flange package with other matching circuits on the FR4 PCB. Under 10 Volts and 4 A de bias condition, the amplifier has achieved 12.5 dB small-signal gain, 43.7 dBm 1-dB gain compression power with 43% power-added efficiency (PAE) and 44 dBm saturated output power with 41% PAE. In addition, high linearity with 53 dBm third-order intercept point is achieved. The ACP at 600 KHz offset from 1.906 GHz when operating at 39 dBm output power with pi/4-DQPSK signal is better than 71 dBc.
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页码:76 / 82
页数:7
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