A State-of-the-Art Review on CMOS Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communication Systems

SS Hamid, S Mariappan, J Rajendran, AS Rawat… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wireless communication systems have undergone significant development in recent years,
particularly with the transition from fourth generation (4G) to fifth generation (5G). As the …

A review of advanced CMOS RF power amplifier architecture trends for low power 5G wireless networks

A Vasjanov, V Barzdenas - Electronics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The structure of the modern wireless network evolves rapidly and maturing 4G networks
pave the way to next generation 5G communication. A tendency of shifting from traditional …

Not just a phase: Outphasing power amplifiers

T Barton - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Performing RF amplification in a way that is simultaneously linear and efficient has long
been a challenge in power amplifier (PA) design. In short, single-transistor PAs can either be …

A 28-GHz flip-chip packaged Chireix transmitter with on-antenna outphasing active load modulation

S Li, T Chi, JS Park, HT Nguyen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a packaged 28-GHz Chireix outphasing transmitter (TX) for power
amplifier (PA) efficiency enhancement at both peak and back-off output power (PBO). The …

A CMOS highly linear Doherty power amplifier with multigated transistors

D Jung, H Zhao, H Wang - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a highly linear and power back-off efficiency-enhanced Doherty power
amplifier (PA) fully integrated into CMOS. The proposed Doherty PA employs a transformer …

A compact dual-band digital polar Doherty power amplifier using parallel-combining transformer

Y Yin, L Xiong, Y Zhu, B Chen, H Min… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a dual-band high-power digital polar Doherty power amplifier (PA). A
current-mode parallel-combining transformer (PCT) power combiner is introduced for …

A fully-integrated wideband digital polar transmitter with 11-bit digital-to-phase converter in 40nm CMOS

C Hu, Y Yin, T Li, Y Liu, L Xiong… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a wideband digital polar transmitter (DPTX) with an integrated capacitor-
digital-to-analog converter (C-DAC)-based digital-to-phase converter (DPC). A normalized …

A wideband four-way Doherty bits-in RF-out CMOS transmitter

M Beikmirza, Y Shen, LCN de Vreede… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a wideband, 12-bit four-way Doherty Cartesian digital transmitter (DTX) featuring
an innovative 50%-LO signed interleaved up-conversion technique that enables close to …

Outphasing class-E power amplifiers: From theory to back-off efficiency improvement

A Ghahremani, AJ Annema… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an analysis of outphasing class-E power amplifiers (OEPAs), using load-
pull analyses of single class-E PAs. This analysis is subsequently used to rotate and shift …

A quadrature digital power amplifier with hybrid Doherty and impedance boosting for complex domain power back-off efficiency enhancement

HJ Qian, B Yang, J Zhou, H Xu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quadrature digital power amplifier (PA) with hybrid Doherty and impedance boosting
(HDIB) technique is presented for deep power back-off (PBO) efficiency enhancement in the …