RF power amplifiers for wireless communications

By S. Cripps. 24th Annual Technical Digest Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposiu, 2002

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Low-Power Wireless Power Delivery (2012, background): “It is interesting to note the similarities to reduced-conduction angle efficient power amplifiers [24].”
Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs: About the Authors (2007, background): “to the device at the harmonic frequencies and at low frequencies have a significant effect on the transistor’s RF performance [58].”
3–3.6-GHz Wideband GaN Doherty Power Amplifier Exploiting Output Compensation Stages (2012, methodology): “WIDEBAND DOHERTY DESIGN STRATEGY The Doherty PA standard design strategy [3], [4] is well suited to a narrowband amplifier.”
A high-efficiency linear RF power amplifier with a power-tracking dynamically adaptive buck-boost supply (2004, background): “Consequently, energy efficient RF power amplifiers (PAs) are key components in mobile, battery-operated systems (e.g., cellular phones, PDAs) because they determine and dominate the total power consumption of their respective systems [1].”
A Broadband High-Efficiency Doherty Power Amplifier With Integrated Compensating Reactance (2016, background): “…High-Efficiency Doherty Power Amplifier with Integrated Compensating Reactance Authors(s) Xia, Jing; Yang, Mengsu; Guo, Yan; Zhu, Anding Publication date 2016-07 Publication information IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 64 (7): 2014-2024 Publisher IEEE Item record/more…”
Per-Antenna Constant Envelope Precoding for Large Multi-User MIMO Systems (2012, background): “Typically, a non-linear power-efficient amplifier is about 4 − 6 times more power-efficient than a highly linear amplifier [11].”
A Dual-Input Digitally Driven Doherty Amplifier Architecture for Performance Enhancement of Doherty Transmitters (2011, methodology): “linear transmitters are very power inefficient [1], [2].”
Frequency Response Analysis and Bandwidth Extension of the Doherty Amplifier (2011, methodology): “The dc power dissipated by the main and peaking amplifiers is given by [2]”
Pseudo-Doherty Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier With Wide Bandwidth and Extended Power Back-Off Range (2020, methodology): “It is important to emphasize that this constantly resistive load trajectory is the optimal solution as explained by the classical Class-B loadline theory [38].”
Nonlinear device model of microwave power GaN HEMTs for high power-amplifier design (2004, background): “Maximization of and PAE demanded a careful selection of the Cripps load line and fine tuning of the even harmonics [16].”
A 90-W Peak Power GaN Outphasing Amplifier With Optimum Input Signal Conditioning (2009, background): “Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.”
Fully integrated CMOS power amplifier design using the distributed active-transformer architecture (2002, background): “Index Terms—Circular geometry, CMOS analog integrated circuit, distributed active transformer, double differential, harmonic control, impedance transformation, low voltage, power amplifier, power combining.”
The Doherty Power Amplifier: Review of Recent Solutions and Trends (2015, methodology): “In [24], a DPA realized with a LDMOS main and a GaN auxiliary is presented: thanks also to the asymmetrical voltage bias, the device power utilization factor [35] is maximized.”
Power amplifiers and transmitters for RF and microwave (2002, background): “For an ideal PA, the resultant constant-power contour is football shaped [14].”