ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / A conventionally designed radio frequency amplifier operated in its linear region exhibits
low DC to RF conversion efficiency. Typically, for a power amplifier designed for digital
modulation applications, the amplifier is operated “backed-off” from its P1dB point by a factor of 10
or -10 dB. The typical linear amplifier is biased for either Class A or Class A/B operation
depending on the acceptable design trade-offs between efficiency and linearity between these two
methods. A novel design approach to increasing the efficiency of a linear RF power amplifier using
a modified Odd-Way Doherty technique is presented in this paper. The design was simulated, built
and then tested. The design yields improvements in efficiency and linearity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/604917 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Takacs, Edward, Durso, Christopher M., Dirdo, David |
| Contributors | Array Wireless, Pacific Microwave Research, Inc. |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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