A Broadband Asymmetrical Gan Mmic Doherty Power Amplifier With Compact Size For 5g Communications

This paper proposes a broadband asymmetrical monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) Doherty power amplifier (DPA) using 0.25-mu m gallium-nitride process with a compact chip size of 2.37 x 1.86 mm(2) for 5G communication. It adopts an unequal Wilkinson's power divider with a ratio of 2.5:1, where 71.5% of the total power is transferred to the main amplifier for higher gain. Different input matching networks are used to offset phase difference while completing impedance conversion. This design also applies a novel topology to solve the problem of large impedance transformer ratio (ITR) in conventional DPA, and it optimizes the ITR from 4:1 to 2:1 for wider band. Moreover, most of the components of the DPA including power divider and matching networks use lumped inductors and capacitors instead of long transmission line (TL) for a smaller space area. The whole circuit is designed and simulated using Agilent's advanced design system (ADS). The simulated small-signal gain of DPA is 8-11 dB and the saturation output power is more than 39.5 dBm with 800 MHz band from 4.5 GHz to 5.3 GHz. At 6-dB output power back-off, the DPA demonstrates 38-41.3% power added efficiency (PAE), whereas 44-54% PAE is achieved at saturation power.