A broadband Doherty power amplifier with harmonic suppression

In this paper, the design and implementation of the broadband, Doherty power amplifier (DPA) with 2nd and 3rd harmonics suppression, with theoretical analysis is presented. In the proposed structure a novel harmonic suppressed Wilkinson power divider used in DPA, which results in harmonic suppression with high level of attenuation. Moreover the proposed DPA has major advantages in terms of the linearity and works on a wideband frequency range (2.1–2.7 GHz) with minimum 40% drain efficiency (DE). The linearity of the proposed DPA is increased extremely, which significant improvement (7 dBm) is achieved from the main amplifier. In the proposed DPA, the main and the auxiliary amplifiers are implemented using Class-AB and Class-C topology respectively with equal MRF6S27015N MOTOROLA transistors in LDMOS technology.