Empowering GaN-Si HEMT Nonlinear Modelling for Doherty Power Amplifier Design

被引:1
作者
Bosi, Gianni [1 ]
Raffo, Antonio [1 ]
Giofre, Rocco [2 ]
Vadala, Valeria [1 ]
Vannini, Giorgio [1 ]
Limiti, Ernesto [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ferrara, Dept Engn, Via Saragat 1, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
[2] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, EE Dept, Via Politecn 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
来源
2020 15TH EUROPEAN MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS CONFERENCE (EUMIC) | 2021年
关键词
Doherty power amplifiers; GaN-Si; HEMTs; nonlinear measurements; nonlinear modelling;
D O I
10.1109/EuMIC48047.2021.00074
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
New system architectures oriented to more and more challenging performance for the next generations of mobile devices demand for an accurate design of integrated circuits. The power amplifier is one of the most critical components in an RF system and the need for high performance has focused the designer attention to complex architectures, such as the Doherty power amplifier (DPA). In its most common implementations, the design requires transistor models showing high-accuracy levels under different classes of operation. In this work, we investigate the possibility of achieving the required level of accuracy for the transistor current-generator model using a set of measurements performed under the different classes of operation that mimic realistic device operation and use them for the model optimization. The developed approach is fully validated on a 28-GHz MMIC DPA, showing good agreement with the measured results.
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页数:4
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