A review of 5G power amplifier design at cm‐wave and mm‐wave frequencies

DYC Lie, JC Mayeda, Y Li… - … and Mobile Computing, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The 5G wireless revolution presents some dramatic challenges to the design of handsets
and communication infrastructures, as 5G targets higher than 10 Gbps download speed …

A case for digital beamforming at mmWave

S Dutta, CN Barati, D Ramirez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the heavy reliance of millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless systems on directional
links, beamforming (BF) with high-dimensional arrays is essential for cellular systems in …

A super-resolution mixed-signal Doherty power amplifier for simultaneous linearity and efficiency enhancement

F Wang, TW Li, S Hu, H Wang - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a mixed-signal Doherty power amplifier (MSDPA) architecture for
simultaneous linearity and efficiency enhancement. The MSDPA comprises one analog …

Efficient digital quadrature transmitter based on IQ cell sharing

H Jin, D Kim, B Kim - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we proposed and designed a digitally configured versatile RF quadrature
transmitter. The transmitter efficiency was enhanced by IQ cell sharing and the deactivation …

A quadrature switched capacitor power amplifier

W Yuan, V Aparin, J Dunworth… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an all-digital class-G quadrature switched-capacitor power amplifier (Q-
SCPA) implemented in 65 nm CMOS. It combines in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals on …

A 15-bit quadrature digital power amplifier with transformer-based complex-domain efficiency enhancement

Y Li, Y Yin, D Zheng, X Jia, J Lin, F Gao… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 15-bit quadrature digital power amplifier (DPA) with in-phase and
quadrature (IQ)-cell-sharing and transformer-based Doherty operation, which compensates …

A broadband switched-transformer digital power amplifier for deep back-off efficiency enhancement

Y Yin, T Li, L Xiong, Y Li, H Min… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a switched-transformer-based polar Doherty digital power amplifier
(DPA) for deep back-off efficiency enhancement. A single-transformer-footprint parallel …

A watt-level quadrature class-G switched-capacitor power amplifier with linearization techniques

SW Yoo, SC Hung, SM Yoo - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 30.1-dBm quadrature transmitter is implemented based on Class-G IQ-cell-shared
switched-capacitor power amplifier (SCPA) and voltage mismatch compensation techniques …

A multiphase switched capacitor power amplifier

W Yuan, JS Walling - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an all-digital multiphase switched capacitor power amplifier (MP-SCPA)
implemented in a 130-nm CMOS. Quadrature architectures suffer reduced output power and …

A wideband energy-efficient multi-mode CMOS digital transmitter

M Beikmirza, Y Shen, LCN de Vreede… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a wideband, energy-efficient digital transmitter (DTX) suitable for multi-
mode/multi-band wireless communication applications. It features various operation modes …