{"title":"30-Watt Power Amplifier for 3.5GHz WiMAX Base station Application","authors":"M. Sarfraz, M. Akkul","doi":"10.1109/EMICC.2006.282687","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design of a 30W GaAs pHEMT PA (power amplifier) for WiMAX applications. The PA is realized on a CuW carrier with various ceramic matching components. The PA attained 10dB small signal gain and 30W CW output power with a drain efficiency of around 60% at a supply voltage of 12V. Under WiMAX 802.16-2004 OFDM modulation (3.5MHz BW, 64QAM sub carrier modulation and peak to average ratio of 10dB) the PA achieves better than 2% EVM (error vector magnitude), -45dBc ACPR (adjacent channel power ratio) at 34dBm (2.5W) Pavg (average output power) with 16% average drain efficiency in a frequency band of 3.3-3.7GHz","PeriodicalId":269652,"journal":{"name":"2006 European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMICC.2006.282687","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper describes the design of a 30W GaAs pHEMT PA (power amplifier) for WiMAX applications. The PA is realized on a CuW carrier with various ceramic matching components. The PA attained 10dB small signal gain and 30W CW output power with a drain efficiency of around 60% at a supply voltage of 12V. Under WiMAX 802.16-2004 OFDM modulation (3.5MHz BW, 64QAM sub carrier modulation and peak to average ratio of 10dB) the PA achieves better than 2% EVM (error vector magnitude), -45dBc ACPR (adjacent channel power ratio) at 34dBm (2.5W) Pavg (average output power) with 16% average drain efficiency in a frequency band of 3.3-3.7GHz