Power amplifiers for amplifying a radio frequency signal are provided. The power amplifier may include an envelope tracking power supply, a carrier amplifier coupled with the envelope tracking power supply and configured to amplify the radio frequency signal, an input matching network configured to split the amplified radio frequency signal from the carrier amplifier such that one part of the amplified radio frequency signal passes along a peak amplifier path and another part of the amplified radio frequency signal passes along an impedance transformer path, a peak amplifier coupled with the envelope tracking power supply and configured to amplify the one part of the amplified radio frequency signal from the input matching network, an impedance transformer configured to perform impedance transformation on the other part of the amplified radio frequency signal from the input matching network, an output matching network configured to combine the output of the peak amplifier and the impedance transformer, wherein the peak amplifier is configured to be switched off in a lower power mode and switched on in a high power mode based at least in part on an input power level of the radio frequency signal. With the claimed solutions, more powerful and efficient power amplifiers that are capable of operating over broader frequency ranges may be achieved.

An impedance converter includes an insulating layer; a first wire provided on a first surface of the insulating layer and extending in a first direction; a second wire provided on a second surface of the insulating layer and extending in the first direction and face the first wire, the second surface being located on a side opposite to the first surface; a third wire provided on the first surface and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a fourth wire provided on the second surface and extending in the second direction and face the third wire; a fifth wire provided on the first surface and extending in the second direction; and a sixth wire provided on the second surface and extending in the second direction and face the fifth wire.

A power amplifier includes a common source amplifier and a common gate amplifier circuit. The common source amplifier circuit has a terminal connected to a radio frequency (RF) input terminal and uses a source terminal commonly as an input terminal and an output terminal of the power amplifier. The common gate amplifier circuit has a terminal connected to the common source amplifier circuit and another terminal connected to an RF output terminal, and uses a gate terminal commonly as the input terminal and the output terminal of the power amplifier. The common gate amplifier circuit includes a Doherty amplifier including a main power amplifier and an auxiliary power amplifier that is connected to the main power amplifier in parallel.

A transmission apparatus is provided with: a plurality of amplification units that amplify RF signals arranged in at least 2 bands; a first control unit that selects amplification units that perform an amplification operation, from among the plurality of amplification units, in accordance with total power of RF signals to be transmitted; a second control unit which, in accordance with a power ratio of the RF signals to be transmitted in respective bands, changes the power ratio of the RF signals in the respective bands while keeping constant the total power of the RF signals received at each of the selected amplification units; and a combining unit that combines the RF signals outputted by the selected amplification units.

A power amplifier is described that includes a balanced amplifier arrangement having an input quadrant coupler and output quadrant coupler and two amplifiers, which may include or consist of single transistors, there between. The power amplifier also can provide a signal to an isolated port of the output coupler in order to provide impedance matching. This arrangement dispenses with the need for transistor matching networks at the output of the two amplifiers, which in turn enables the power amplifier to be operable over a wider frequency range as compared with a Doherty power amplifier.

Size reduction is enabled. A power amplifying circuit includes a splitter, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, and a third amplifier. The splitter splits an input signal into a first signal and a second signal. The first amplifier has a first input terminal and a first output terminal, amplifies the first signal, and outputs a first amplified signal. The second amplifier has a second input terminal and a second output terminal, amplifies the second signal, and outputs a second amplified signal. The third amplifier has a third input terminal and a third output terminal, amplifies the first signal, and outputs a third amplified signal. The first output terminal and the second output terminal are connected to each other, the third input terminal is connected to the first input terminal, and the third output terminal is connected to the second output terminal.

Apparatuses and systems implementing an amplifier module are described. The amplifier module can include a substrate. A driver amplifier die, a splitter network, an output amplifier die, a bias controller, and a combiner network can be coupled to the substrate. The driver amplifier die can be configured to receive an input radio frequency (RF) signal. The splitter network can be configured to split an intermediate RF signal outputted from the driver amplifier die into first and second RF signals. The output amplifier die can be configured to receive the first and second RF signals. The bias controller can be configured to bias the driver amplifier die and the output amplifier die. The combiner network can be configured to combine first and second outputs of the output amplifier die to generate an output RF signal and terminate at least one harmonic of the output amplifier die's output impedance.

The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or a pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). A Doherty power amplifier of a wireless communication system is provided. The Doherty power amplifier includes a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a first transmission line connected to an output end of the first power amplifier, a second transmission line connected to an input end of the second power amplifier, a first network, and a second network, the first network may interconnect a first node connected with one end of the first transmission line and a second node connected with an output end of the second power amplifier, the one end of the first transmission line may be positioned on an opposite side with respect to the output end of the first power amplifier, and the second network may connect the first node, the second node, and a third node which is an output end of the Doherty power amplifier.

An amplifier, communication device and method of amplification are disclosed. An RF signal is amplified by a Doherty power amplifier (DPA). The DPA has a main amplifier with a Class-AB amplifier in parallel with a Class-C amplifier. When the RF signal power is smaller than 6 dB PBO, the Class-AB amplifier provides the main amplifier amplification; when the RF signal is between 6 dB PBO and 0 dB PBO, both the Class-AB and Class-C amplifiers provide the main amplifier amplification.

Described herein is a single-input hybrid Doherty power amplifier (PA). Unlike the conventional 214 Doherty PA inverter which only performs the correct load modulation at its center frequency, the hybrid Doherty PA (HDω-PA) combiner network achieves a wideband load modulation using the frequency dependence of the electrical length of the output combiner lines versus frequency for sliding the PA mode of operation. A modified theory is presented herein to allow for a single-input PA implementation. In this design, the outphasing angle is only changing with frequency and not the input power. A transmission line phase shifter is used to provide the correct frequency-dependent input phase offset ensuring the correct wideband load modulation performed by the output combiner