T. Yoshimasu et al., AN HBT MMIC POWER-AMPLIFIER WITH AN INTEGRATED DIODE LINEARIZER FOR LOW-VOLTAGE PORTABLE PHONE APPLICATIONS, IEEE journal of solid-state circuits, 33(9), 1998, pp. 1290-1296
This paper gives a detailed description of a novel linearization techn
ique using a transistor base-collector junction diode, The novel linea
rization technique effectively improves the gain compression and phase
distortion of the heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) with no add
itional de consumption, leading to highly efficient linear amplificati
on of the pi/4 DQPSK modulation signals. An AlGaAs/GaAs HBT monolithic
microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) linear power amplifier was fabric
ated using the novel linearization technique for the handsets used in
the 1.9 GHz Japanese Personal Handy Phone System (PHS), The fabricated
HBT MMIC power amplifier exhibits an output power of 21 dBm and a pow
er-added efficiency as high as 37% at an operation voltage of 2.7 V, A
t this rated output power, the adjacent channel power rejection in +/-
600 kHz offset frequency bands is -55 dBc and the error vector magnitu
de is 4.3%. This measured linearity is well within the PHS standard.