RF/microwave power amplifiers: The development route and state-of-the-art

X Li, H Fu, K Ma, S Zhu, Q Cheng - Journal of Circuits, Systems and …, 2020 - World Scientific
Recent decades have seen significant progresses in the field of power amplifiers (PAs). In
order to present the evolution of the field, this paper shows the development trends of the PA …

Nonlinearity modeling of a Chireix outphasing power amplifier

T Hwang, K Azadet, RS Wilson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the nonlinearity modeling of a 2.14-GHz gallium nitride Chireix
outphasing power amplifier (PA). The outphasing PA consists of two branches of class-F …

A dual-input two-box model for digital predistortion of envelope tracking power amplifiers

O Hammi, MO Khalifa, A Abdelhafiz… - IEEE microwave and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work proposes a novel two-box dual-input single-output digital predistorter (labeled as
the LUT MISO predistorter) suitable for linearizing dynamic nonlinear envelope tracking …

Supply modulated GaN HEMT power amplifiers-From transistor to system

A Alt - 2021 - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
Power amplifiers (PAs) for mobile communication applications are required to fulfil stringent
requirements concerning linearity while keeping a high efficiency over a wide power range …

An efficient adaptive digital predistortion framework to achieve optimal linearization of power amplifier

KMVV Prasad, HN Suresh - 2016 International Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the era of modern communication systems, to achieve optimal linearity of power amplifiers
without sacrificing energy efficiency has become more challenging especially in the case of …

Analysis of shoot‐through current of supply modulator for envelope‐tracking techniques

J Yoo, S Yoon, C Lee, C Park - Microwave and Optical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we analyze the conduction and switching losses of a supply modulator for
envelope‐tracking techniques. In particular, the conduction and switching losses in the class …

A+ 18 dBm broadband CMOS power amplifier RFIC with distortion cancellation

AM El-Gabaly, CE Saavedra - 2015 IEEE 15th Topical Meeting …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A broadband fully-integrated class-A power amplifier (PA) is presented using derivative
superposition (DS), which delivers+ 18 dBm of saturated output power from 1 GHz to 6 GHz …

[PDF][PDF] Broadband and Energy-Efficient Power Amplifier Architectures

M Akbarpour - 2015 - picture.iczhiku.com
In this dissertation, power amplifier circuits and architectures are proposed that provide high
efficiency for spectral-efficient high peak-to-average power ratio signals that are being used …

Joint linearity and efficiency improvement for a high power amplifier

M Brandon, M Ariaudo, S Traverso… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the optimized way to combine predistortion and envelope tracking to
improve at the same time the linearity and efficiency performances of an emitter. Applied to a …

The Design of Concurrent Dual Band Envelope Tracking Power Amplifier for Basestations

Y Lin - 2014 - rave.ohiolink.edu
The linearity and efficiency of a transmitting system is largely determined by its last stage
component: the Power Amplifier (PA). In the past century, engineers and scientists have …