A 25-40 GHz Three-Way Power Amplifier with No Load Modulation Achieving Broadband Deep Power Back-Off Efficiency Enhancement

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作者
Liu, Edward [1 ]
Zhou, Han [2 ]
Fagers, Christian [2 ]
Wang, Hua [1 ]
机构
[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Chalmers Univ Technol, Gothenburg, Sweden
关键词
5G; CMOS; Mm-Wave; Power amplifiers;
D O I
10.1109/RFIC61187.2024.10600051
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
This paper presents a millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) power amplifier (PA) topology that avoids the trade-off between bandwidth and load modulation. The proposed topology uses three PA paths and can achieve efficiency enhancement at power back-off without load modulation. With a 100 MHz 5G NR FR2 1-CC 64-QAM signal, this PA achieves P-AVG and PAE(AVG) of 6.45 - 12.61 dBm and 5.9 - 16.4% from 25 - 40 GHz, respectively. With a 200 MHz, signal, P-AVG and PAE(AVG) are 5.58 - 11.1 dBm and 4.8 - 13.3%, respectively.
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页码:127 / 130
页数:4
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