Green communications: Digital predistortion for wideband RF power amplifiers

L Guan, A Zhu - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The RF PA, as one of the most essential components in any wireless system, suffers from
inherent nonlinearities. The output of a PA must comply with the linearity requirement …

Band-limited Volterra series-based digital predistortion for wideband RF power amplifiers

C Yu, L Guan, E Zhu, A Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The continuously increasing demand for wide bandwidth creates great difficulties in
employing digital predistortion (DPD) for radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) in …

A simplified broadband design methodology for linearized high-efficiency continuous class-F power amplifiers

N Tuffy, L Guan, A Zhu, TJ Brazil - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the design approach employed for achieving approximated continuous
Class-F power amplifier (PA) modes over wide bandwidths. The importance of the nonlinear …

Decomposed vector rotation-based behavioral modeling for digital predistortion of RF power amplifiers

A Zhu - IEEE Transactions on microwave theory and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new behavioral model for digital predistortion of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers
(PAs) is proposed in this paper. It is derived from a modified form of the canonical piecewise …

Highly efficient broadband continuous inverse class-F power amplifier design using modified elliptic low-pass filtering matching network

M Yang, J Xia, Y Guo, A Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a design approach for a broadband and high-efficiency continuous
inverse Class-F (CCF-1) power amplifier (PA) based on a modified elliptic low-pass filtering …

A broadband high-efficiency Doherty power amplifier with integrated compensating reactance

J Xia, M Yang, Y Guo, A Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a high-efficiency gallium nitride Doherty power amplifier (DPA) using an
integrated compensating reactance (CR) for broadband operation. With an additional …

A 24–28-GHz GaN MMIC synchronous Doherty power amplifier with enhanced load modulation for 5G mm-wave applications

RJ Liu, XW Zhu, J Xia, ZM Zhao, Q Dong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a load-modulation enhanced wideband compact high-efficiency millimeter-
wave (mm-wave) gallium nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) …

Behavioral modeling and predistortion of power amplifiers under sparsity hypothesis

J Reina-Tosina, M Allegue-Martínez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simple and flexible technique for improving the modeling and predistortion of power
amplifiers is presented. The technique, which relies on the sparsity assumption for the kernel …

Optimized low-complexity implementation of least squares based model extraction for digital predistortion of RF power amplifiers

L Guan, A Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Least squares (LS) estimation is widely used in model extraction of digital predistortion for
RF power amplifiers. In order to reduce computational complexity and implementation cost, it …

Multiobjective Bayesian optimization for active load modulation in a broadband 20-W GaN Doherty power amplifier design

P Chen, J Xia, BM Merrick… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a multiobjective Bayesian optimization strategy to deal with the
complex matching problem of designing a broadband 20-W gallium nitride Doherty power …