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This is through analyzing the drain-to-source capacitance (CDS) of DPAs, and adopting appropriate impedance of the peak device. A closed design process is proposed, to design the extended efficiency range DPA based on derived theories. For validation, a DPA with large efficiency range was designed and fabricated by using two equal devices. The measured results showed that the saturated output power was between 43.4 dBm and 43.7 dBm in the target band. Around 70% saturated drain efficiency is obtained with a gain of greater than 11 dB. Moreover, the obtained drain efficiency is larger than 50% at the 10 dB power back-off, when operating at 3.5 GHz. 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