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- Allebes, Erwin (author) master thesis 2023
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Kumaran, A.K. (author), Pashaeifar, M. (author), Nemati, Hossein Mashad (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This paper presents a 40nm CMOS mm-wave 3-way Doherty power amplifier (PA) suitable for 5G mm-wave transmitters. It features a bandwidth-enhanced technique using a compact single-supply balun-first 3-way Doherty combiner. The realized front-end with a core area of 0.77 mm2delivers a peak power/gain of more than 20 dBm/16 dB and a drain...conference paper 2023
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Pashaeifar, M. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This letter presents a novel load-modulation-based 3rd-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) cancellation technique for class-B CMOS power amplifiers (PAs). In a class-B PA, the IMD3 generated by the 3rd-order transconductance ( $g_{m3}$ ) and the gain compression have opposite signs, and thus, they can cancel each other at specific bias...journal article 2022
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Kumaran, A.K. (author), Nemati, Hossein Mashad (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This paper presents a design procedure for compact lumped-element 3-/4-/5-way Doherty power combiners suitable for mm-wave 5G transmitters. Among them, the 3-way Doherty power combiner is favored due to its low complexity, compact layout, and average drain efficiency at 12 dB power back-off (PBO) when implemented using lossy lumped elements....conference paper 2022
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Pashaeifar, M. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This article presents a wideband series-Doherty power amplifier (SDPA) for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) fifth-generation (5G) applications. It features a compact two-step impedance inverting-based series-Doherty power combiner that provides broadband close-to-perfect power back-off (PBO) efficiency enhancement. The amplitude-to-amplitude (AM-AM)...journal article 2022
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Singh, G.D. (author), Mul, D.P.N. (author), Nemati, Hossein Mashad (author), Alavi, S.M. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author)This paper presents a low-loss load-insensitive Doherty power amplifier (DPA) technique. The proposed DPA is insensitive to ohmic load variation by adjusting its supply voltages and input drive of the main and peaking stages in a mirrored approach. Moreover, a low-loss tunable matching network (TMN) is employed to cancel out any reactive part of...conference paper 2022
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Bootsman, R.J. (author), Shen, Y. (author), Mul, D.P.N. (author), Rousstia, Mohadig (author), Heeres, Rob (author), van Rijs, Fred (author), Gajadharsing, John (author), Alavi, S.M. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author)A high-power fully-digital Doherty transmitter (DDTX) is proposed. It features two segmented LDMOS output switch banks implemented in a custom V T -down-shifted LDMOS technology. A 40 nm CMOS controller digitally activates the individual LDMOS gate segments of the output stage at RF speed. An inverted Doherty power combiner is proposed that...conference paper 2022
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Mortazavi, S.M. (author), Shen, Y. (author), Mul, D.P.N. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Spirito, M. (author), Babaie, M. (author)This article presents an efficient digital polar transmitter (DPTX) at mm-wave frequencies that exploit a novel N -way series Doherty combiner (SDC) to enhance its drain and system efficiency at deep power back-off (PBO). The proposed N -way SDC is scalable and can be implemented elegantly using N transformers and N-1 shunt capacitors. As a...journal article 2022
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Beikmirza, M.R. (author), Shen, Y. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)A 40nm CMOS wideband digital Cartesian push-pull inverted Doherty operating in class-E is presented. Wideband Doherty operation is achieved over a 1.9-to-3GHz frequency band, using an off-chip power combining network. The fully digital transmitter (DTX) provides 25.3dBm peak power with a drain/DTX line-up efficiency (DE/SE) of 58.7%/44.9%,...conference paper 2022
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Bagdonas, Faustas (author)Many applications require wide bandwidth transmitters, but unfortunately, they usually have way less than 50% average drain efficiency for their modulated signals. This low efficiency is a significant drawback in all wireless applications, both for battery power devices and base stations. The Doherty radio frequency (RF) power amplifier...master thesis 2021
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Pashaeifar, M. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This article presents a wideband energy-efficient transmitter (TX) for 5G mm-wave phased-array systems. It features an advanced double-quadrature direct upconverter (DQ-DUC) to improve its in-band linearity and spectral purity. The proposed TX architecture incorporates an efficiency-enhanced balanced power amplifier (EEBPA) that mitigates...journal article 2021
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Hashemi, M. (author)One of the biggest challenges in modern transmitter (TX) design, when going from the fourth generation (4G) to fifth generation (5G) communications network, is to handle the increased linearity requirements without introducing any compromise in the energy efficiency of the TX line-up. In analog systems, high quality for the TX signal can be only...doctoral thesis 2020
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Hashemi, M. (author), Zhou, Lei (author), Shen, Y. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author)This article presents the first application of a digital-intensive intrinsically linear digitally controlled class-E technique in a Doherty configuration. By careful nonlinear segmentation and multiphase RF-clocking along with overdrive-voltage control and automatic duty-cycle correction, it is shown that even the nonlinearities related to...journal article 2019
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Qureshi, A.R. (author), Acar, Mustafa (author), Pires, Sergio C. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author)Packaged integrated low-pass quasi-load insensitive (QLI) class-E matching is proposed for the realization of energy-efficient wideband Doherty and outphasing transmitters. In view of this, a dedicated QLI class-E harmonic matching technique, suitable for in-package integration has been developed, optimized, and evaluated. As proof of concept...journal article 2018
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- Zhou, L. (author) master thesis 2016
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He, J. (author)Currently the Doherty Power Amplifier (DPA) is replacing the traditional Class B amplifier in base-station and broadcast applications, as such becoming the preferred choice of industry due to its simplicity and high efficiency performance. In spite of its success, so far practical DPA implementations can provide only a very limited RF bandwidth,...master thesis 2013
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Todi, R. (author)Wireless communication has encountered a tremendous growth over the past few decades. The increased plurality in communication standards, characterized by the use of different operating frequencies and data rates, has translated into very tough specifications for the broadcasting base station power amplifier, in terms of efficiency, bandwidth...master thesis 2011
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Deng, X. (author)Vanwege vertrouwelijke informatie of andere redenen is slechts een deel van de publicatie opgenomen in de repository. Due to confidential information or other reasons only a part of the publication is presented in the repository. Doherty Power Amplifier (DPA) is employed to improve the efficiency when operated with complex modulated signals. Due...master thesis 2010
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Pelk, M.J. (author), Neo, W.C.E. (author), Gajadharsing, J.R. (author), Pengelly, R.S. (author), De Vreede, L.C.N. (author)A three-way Doherty 100-W GaN base-station power amplifier at 2.14 GHz is presented. Simple, but accurate design equations for the output power combiner of the amplifier are introduced. Mixed-signal techniques are utilized for uncompromised control of the amplifier stages to optimize efficiency, as well as linearity. The combination of the above...journal article 2008