
We demonstrate in this work effective linearization on a millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) broadband monolithic gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifier (PA) using digital predistortion (DPD). The PA used is a two-stage common-source (CS)/2-stack PA that operates in the mm-Wave 5G FR2 band, and it is linearized with the generalized memory polynomial (GMP) DPD and tested using 4G (4th generation) long-term-evolution (LTE) 64-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) modulated signals with a PAPR (peak-to-average power ratio) of 8 dB. Measurement results after implementing GMP DPD indicate considerable broadband improvement in the adjacent channel leakage power ratio (ACLR) of 16.9 dB/17.3 dB/16.5 dB/15.1 dB at 24 GHz/28 GHz/37 GHz/39 GHz, respectively, with a common average POUT of 15 dBm using a 100 MHz LTE 64-QAM input signal. At a fixed frequency of 28 GHz, the GaN PA after GMP DPD achieved signal bandwidth-dependent ACLR improvement and root-mean-square (rms) EVM (error vector magnitude) reduction using 20 MHz/40 MHz/80 MHz/100 MHz LTE 64-QAM waveforms with a common average POUT of 15 dBm. The GaN PA thus achieved very good linearization results compared to that in other state-of-the-art mm-Wave PA DPD studies in the literature, suggesting that GMP DPD should be rather effective for linearizing mm-Wave 5G broadband GaN PAs to improve POUT, Linear.
adjacent channel leakage power ratio (ACLR), 4G (4th generation), 5G (5th generation), long-term evolution (LTE), error vector magnitude (EVM), quadrature amplitude modulation (qam), digital predistortion (DPD), millimeter-wave (mm-Wave), power amplifier (PA), generalized memory polynomial (GMP), gallium nitride (GaN), carrier aggregation (CA)
adjacent channel leakage power ratio (ACLR), 4G (4th generation), 5G (5th generation), long-term evolution (LTE), error vector magnitude (EVM), quadrature amplitude modulation (qam), digital predistortion (DPD), millimeter-wave (mm-Wave), power amplifier (PA), generalized memory polynomial (GMP), gallium nitride (GaN), carrier aggregation (CA)
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