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Beikmirza, M.R. (author), Shen, Y. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This article presents a wideband, energy-efficient digital transmitter (DTX) suitable for multi-mode/multi-band wireless communication applications. It features various operation modes comprising Cartesian (Modes-1/-2) and multi-phase (Modes-3/-4) configurations utilizing LO clocks with different duty cycle in the interleaving/non...journal article 2023
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Zhang, H. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Fan, Q. (author)This article presents a class-D amplifier (CDA) with high dynamic range (DR). To eliminate the typically dominant noise contribution of a resistive feedback network, the input and feedback signals are chopped and applied to a capacitive feedback network. However, this leads to high-voltage (HV) transients at the input of the loop filter,...journal article 2022
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Karmakar, S. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Fan, Q. (author)This article presents a Class-D audio amplifier for capacitive piezoelectric speaker loads. Employing a dual voltage feedback (VFB)/current feedback (CFB) topology, the amplifier is capable of damping LC resonance without using an external damping resistor, therefore reducing system power consumption, cost, and size. Additional power savings are...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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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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Pashaeifar, M. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This work presents an ultra-compact single-antenna FD/FDD transceivers front-end. It comprises a nonreciprocal circulator, RX, and an integrated power amplifier (PA). In the proposed circulator, we devise a ring quarter-wave transmission line topology with adjusted characteristic impedances to improve TX-to-antenna insertion loss and TX-to-RX...conference paper 2022
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Zhang, H. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Fan, Q. (author)Class-D audio amplifiers produce electromagnetic interference (EMI), which often needs to be suppressed by an external LC filter. However, due to component nonlinearity, this filter can itself cause significant distortion. This article presents a class-D amplifier that suppresses LC filter nonlinearity by 49 dB and is robust to ±30%...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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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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Zhang, H. (author), Rozsa, N.N.M. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Fan, Q. (author)The power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) of conventional differential closed-loop Class-D amplifiers is limited by the feedback and input resistor mismatch and finite common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) of the operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) in the first integrator. This article presents a 14.4-V Class-D amplifier employing...journal article 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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Shen, Y. (author)This thesis focuses on digital-intensive up-converters for sub-6GHz wireless communication. Nowadays, wireless cellular communication is entering its 5th generation (5G), driven by the demand for faster mobile access and higher data throughput. 5G utilizes larger modulation bandwidths, higher-order modulations, and (many) more transmitters and...doctoral thesis 2021
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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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Hoogelander, Martijn (author)This thesis investigates the performance limits and design challenges of two current-mode front-end concepts that target WiFi and mm-wave 5G applications, respectively. The first concept is a power amplifier (PA), which operates at 2.4GHz and is driven by a direct-digital RF modulator (DDRM). A design for the PA, which also includes a parallel...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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Kumaran, A.K. (author), Pashaeifar, M. (author), D'Avino, Marco (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)Continuous Class F (CCF) power amplifiers (PAs) overcome Class-F PA's disadvantage of narrow bandwidth by relaxing the short-circuit requirement at the 2<sup>nd</sup> harmonic while still maintaining 90.7% peak efficiency over the band of interest. This paper proposes four different CCF output networks, with their design procedure, suitable...conference paper 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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Tong, X. (author)In recent years, the demand for the wireless connectivity is increasing and leads to the research into the above 100GHz design. Developments have been made with the circuit and technologies to make the circuit operate at 100GHz. The current availability of silicon-based technologies providing devices with ft/fmax frequencies exceeding 300-GHz...master thesis 2020
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Sabti, Abbas (author), Bouman, Lars (author)This report describes the design of different amplifiers that are part of an FM transceiver. This is part of a larger project, which has the objective to design a complete FM transceiver from discrete components only, meaning that IC technology is not considered. <br/>The circuits designed are two baseband amplifiers, an intermediate frequency...bachelor thesis 2020
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Bruinsma, Quinten (author)The ever increasing demand for faster data rates combined with the need for higher levels of integration, while keeping the production and operation cost to a minimum leads to the requirement of an efficient high bandwidth digital transmitter architecture. With the shortcomings of both polar and cartesian architectures, a new architecture is...master thesis 2020