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by Raymond S. Pengelly – William Pribble – Thomas Smith

This Simulation of power amplifiers (PAs) for modern wireless base station and small cell systems is an essential part of the design process. At a cell site – the PA consumes the bulk of the dc power – generates the most heat – and thus represents the greatest operational cost. Maximum PA efficiency is a necessity to manage these costs – which is a sizeable challenge in a PA that also must be highly linear to support the complex multilevel modulation types and wide bandwidths used for current and developing wireless transmission standards. Accurate simulation allows the PA designer to meet these challenges by exploring the available design options and then optimizing the circuit that is selected for the application.

by Junghwan Son – Ildu Kim – Junghwan Moon – Juyeon Lee – Bummam Kim – An asymmetric Doherty Power Amplifier (ADPA) is introduced using a new output combining circuit for easy of implementation with a large matching tolerance. The proposed APDA has been implemented using GaN HEMT devices at 2.6 GHz for WiMAX signal with 5MHz bandwidth and 8.3 dB peak to average power ratio.

by Christian Musolff; Michael Kamper; Zeid Abou-Chahinel; Georg Fischer – This article outlines the design procedure and presents the results of the winning power amplifier (PA) design at the PA competition held at the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2012) and sponsored by the High-Power Microwave Components Committee (MTT-5).

by Raymond S. Pengelly – Simon M. Wood – James W. Milligan – Scott T. Sheppard – and William L. Pribble

by Raymond S. Pengelly – Brad Millon – Donald Farrell – Bill Pribble – and Simon Wood

Presentation from the 2008 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Workshop on Challenges in Model-Based HPA DesignThis presentation discusses attributes of GaN HEMTs – Wolfspeed GaN HEMT models – design examples (Broadband CW Amplifiers and Linear WiMAX Amplifier) – and future model improvements.

by Guolin Sun – Rolf H. Jansen – A comprehensive method of designing a broadband Doherty power amplifier is presented in this paper. The essential limitations of bandwidth extension of a Doherty power amplifier are discussed based on the proposed structure of the Doherty power amplifier – which also takes the output matching networks of both sub-amplifiers into account. The broadband matching is realized by applying the simplified real frequency technique with the desired frequency dependent optimum impedances. GaN transistors were selected to implement the circuit structure.

by Gabriel Montoro – Pere Gilabert – Jordi Berenguer – and Eduard Bertran – This paper presents a new Digital Predistorter (DPD) to compensate for nonlinear distortion that arises in Envelope Tracking (ET) Power Amplifiers (PAs) driven by slew-rate limited versions of the real signal’€™s envelope.

by Pedro P. Vizarreta; Gabriel Montoro; Pere L. Gilabert – This paper presents an envelope tracking (ET) Power Amplifier (PA) whose architecture includes an efficient Envelope Amplifier (EA) and a bandwidth reduction algorithm suitable for real time applications.

by Donald A. Gajewski – Scott Sheppard – Simon Wood – Jeff B. Barner – Jim Milligan – and John Palmour.

This paper discusses the reliability performance of Wolfspeed GaN/AlGaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) MMIC released process technologies – fabricated on 100 mm high purity semi-insulating (HPSI) 4H-SiC substrates.

by Donald A. Gajewski – Scott Sheppard – Tina McNulty – Jeff B. Barner – Jim Milligan and John Palmour

This paper reports the reliability performance of the Wolfspeed – GaN/AlGaN HEMT MMIC process technology – fabricated on 100 mm high purity semi-insulating (HPSI) 4H-SiC substrates.

by Gabriel Montoro – Pere L. Gilabert – Pedro Vizarreta and Eduard Bertran – This paper presents a practical application of a method for generating slew-rate limited envelopes in order to drive the dynamic supply of envelope tracking (ET) power amplifiers (PAs).

by Ildu Kim – Jangheon Kim – Junghwan Moon – Jungjoon Kim – and Bumman Kim

Demonstrating a highly efficient Hybrid Envelope Elimination and Restoration transmitter for IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX applications using a highly efficient saturated Power Amplifier (PA). For the optimum H-EER operation – the PA has been designed to have a maximum PAE at the average Vds region by using 10 W (P3dB ) GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor.