High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design for 28 GHz 5G Transmitters

This book introduces power amplifier design in 22nm FDSOI CMOS dedicated towards 5G applications at 28 GHz and presents 4 state-of-the-art power amplifier designs. The authors discuss power amplifier performance metrics, design trade-offs, and presents different power amplifier classes utilizing efficiency enhancement techniques at 28 GHz. The book presents the design process from theory, simulation, layout, and finally measurement results. - Covers thoroughly design steps starting from theory, to simulation, layout and measurement steps; - Includes simulation details and comparison with existing state of the art designs; - Shows not only the design of the power amplifier block, but also the steps taken to integrate it into a complete phased array transmitter architecture; - Discusses design trade-offs at high frequency, including performance metrics and technology limitations, and discusses different ways to overcome them.