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  • How to Design an Outphasing Power Amplifier with Digital Predistortion Open Access

    Shigekazu KIMURA  Toshio KAWASAKI  

     
    INVITED PAPER

      Pubricized:
    2021/04/09
      Vol:
    E104-C No:10
      Page(s):
    472-479

    For improving the fifth-generation mobile communication system, a highly efficient power amplifier must be designed for the base station. An outphasing amplifier is expected to be a solution for achieving high efficiency. We designed a combiner, one of the key components of the outphasing amplifier, using a serial Chireix combiner and fabricated an amplifier with a GaN HEMT, achieving 70% or more high efficiency up to 9 dB back-off power in an 800 MHz band. We also fabricated a 2 GHz-band outphasing amplifier with the same design. We applied digital predistortion (DPD) to control the balance of amplifying units in this amplifier and achieved an average efficiency of 65% under a 20 MHz modulation bandwidth.