APPARATUS FOR DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR POWER AMPLIFICATION

摘要

The present invention discloses a Doherty power amplifier apparatus and a power amplification method. The apparatus includes an auxiliary power amplifier apparatus and a main power amplifier apparatus, the auxiliary power amplifier apparatus is used to amplify signal power by adopting a Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) device; and the main power amplifier apparatus is used to amplify signal power by adopting a High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMT) device. The present invention adopts the HEMT device as the main power amplifier. Compared with the existing Doherty power amplifier in which both the main power amplifier and the auxiliary power amplifier adopt LDMOS, with the present invention, the power amplifier efficiency of the main power amplifier in the Doherty power amplifier can be enhanced, thereby making the power amplifier efficiency of the whole Doherty power amplifier be substantially increased.