Patent ID: 7843269

Claim:
A cascode-cascade Doherty power amplifier assembly, comprising: a first common-source amplifier for receiving input signals; a second common-source amplifier; a phase shift matching network coupled between the first common-source amplifier and the second common-source amplifier, allowing less than 50% of an output power of the first common-source amplifier to be transmitted to the second common-source amplifier; a common-gate amplifier for forming a series circuit arrangement with the first common-source amplifier and a parallel circuit arrangement with the second common-source amplifier, allowing the rest of the output power to be delivered to the common-gate amplifier; and an equivalent quarter-wave or three-quarter wave circuit for forming a series circuit arrangement with the common-gate amplifier and a parallel circuit arrangement with the second common-source amplifier; wherein the first common-source amplifier and the common-gate amplifier form a cascode main amplifier of the cascode-cascade Doherty power amplifier and the first common-source amplifier and the second common-source amplifier form a cascade auxiliary amplifier of the cascode-cascade Doherty power amplifier.