Patent attributes
Disclosed is a Doherty power amplifier apparatus, including: a drive amplifier circuit, a power splitter circuit and a power combiner circuit, wherein the power splittercircuit is connected to the drive amplifier circuit, the apparatus further comprising: a carrier amplifier circuit and a peak amplifier circuit connected in parallel between the power splitter circuit and the power combiner circuit, wherein the carrier amplifier circuit comprises one or more parallel carrier amplification branches, wherein each carrier amplification branch comprises a multi-stage carrier amplifier apparatus, the multi-stage carrier amplifier apparatus is used for achieving multi-stage carrier amplification; and the peak amplifier circuit comprises one or more parallel peak amplification branches, wherein each peak amplification branch comprises a multi-stage peak amplifier apparatus, the multi-stage peak amplifier apparatus is used for achieving multi-stage peak amplification.
