2014 Power
Amplifier Symposium
Advance Program
Monday, September 15
7:30 Registration and
Continental Breakfast
Welcome Session
8:15 Welcome & Introduction to the Power Amplifier Symposium
Paul Draxler, General Chair
Session 1:
Millimeter-wave PAs and Transmitters for 5G and Beyond
8:30 Mobile
Communication beyond 6GHz and its Impact on Power Amplifier Requirements (Invited)
Farshid Aryanfar(f.aryanfar@samsung.com), Jerry Pi, Hongyu Zhou,
Thomas Henige,
Gary Xu, Shadi Abu-Surra, Dimitris Psychoudakis and Farooq Khan,
Samsung
Research America, Richardson, TX
9:00 Transmitter Architecture Based on Frequency Quadrupling and Digital Predistortion for Mm-Wave Operation
Gang Liu, Youjiang Liu, James Buckwalter and Peter Asbeck
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
9:20 A 94 GHz Doherty Digital-to-RF Converter
in 45 nm SOI CMOS
Po-yi Wu, Peter Asbeck, and James Buckwalter
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
9:40 Large-Signal Performance of AlInN/GaN-on-Silicon HEMTs at 94 GHz
D. Marti, S. Tirelli, V. Teppati, L. Lugani, M. Malinverni,J.-F. Carlin, N. Grandjean
and C. R. Bolognesi,
Eidgenossische
Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland and Ecole Polytechnique
Lausanne, Switzerland
10:10
Coffee break
Session 2:
High-Efficiency Techniques for High-Frequency Amplifiers
10:40 Power Amplifier Classes Based Upon Harmonic Approximation and
Lumped-Element Networks (Invited)
Ramon Beltran(rbeltran80@gmail.com),
Skyworks
Solutions, Newbury Park, CA
11:10 The Path to Efficient-yet-Linear Watt-class mmWave CMOS PAs: Device Stacking, Switch-mode Operation, Power Combining and Linearization (Invited)
Ritesh Bhat, Anandaroop Chakrabarti and Harish Krishnaswamy,
Columbia
University, New York, New York
11:40 Joint Circuit and Waveform Optimization for Spectrally Sensitive Power Amplifiers Using the Smith Tube
Matthew Fellows, Charles Baylis, Matthew Flachsbart, Joseph Barkate, Jennifer Barlow,
Lawrence Cohen, and Robert J. Marks II
Baylor
University, Waco, TX and US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
12:00 LUNCH
Session 3: Digital
Predistortion
1:30 Concurrent Predistortion Linearization for Multiband Power Amplifiers (Invited)
Patrick Roblin, N. Naraharisetti, C. Quindroit, and M. Rawat
The
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2:00 DSP Predistortion for a High-Efficiency Outphasing Transmitter
John Reyland, Dave Cripe and Andy Walker,
Rockwell
Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA
2:20 Under-Sampling Restoration Digital Predistortion for High Bandwidth Signals with a Slow ADC
Youjiang Liu and Peter M. Asbeck,
University
of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2:40High Data Rate Modulation of Mm-Wave Power Amplifier /Antenna Arrays Using Digital Predistortion
H. Dabag, B. Hanafi, O. Gurbuz, G. Rebeiz, P. Asbeck and J.
Buckwalter
Qualcomm,
San Diego, CA and University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
3:00 Coffee Break
Session 4: Techniques
for High-Efficiency and Linearization
3:30 Channelized Active Noise Elimination (CANE) for Bit Stream RF
Transmitters (Invited)
Rui Zhu, Yonghoon Song, and Yuanxun Ethan Wang
University
of California, Los Angeles, CA
4:00 30V Integrated Envelope Amplifier for Micro-Basestation Envelope Tracking Power Amplifiers (Invited)
Paul T. Theilmann(ptheilmann@maxentric.com), Toshifumi Nakatani, Jonmei J. Yan and Donald F. Kimball
MaXentric
Technologies, San Diego, CA
4:20 Programmable Power Amplifier Design with Digitally Improved Linearity and Efficiency Performances
J.C. Clifton, A. Lawrenson, and L. Albasha.
Semiconductor
and Electronic Solutions Sony, Hampshire, UK and American University of
Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
5:00 Reception
6:30 Banquet
Tuesday, September 16
7:30-8:25 Registration
and continental breakfast
Session 5: CMOS Broadband and Doherty PAs
8:30 Enhancing Doherty Power Amplifier
Operation by A Digitally Reconfigurable Architecture (Invited)
Hua Wang and Song Hu
Georgia
Tech, Atlanta, GA
9:00 Broadband PA Techniques for Efficiency Enhancement (Invited)
Andrei Grebennikov
Microsemi,
Aliso Viejo, CA
9:30 A Novel Transformer-based Doherty CMOS Power Amplifier
Boshi Jin, Jing-Hwa Chen, Paul Dicarlo, Steven Sprinkle, Florinel Balteanu, David Whitefield
Skyworks
Solutions, Newbury Park, CA
9:50
Coffee break
Session 6: Outphasing
Techniques and Thermal Effects
10:20 A Fully Digital Delta-Sigma-Based Modulator for Switching-Mode
Outphasing Power Amplifiers
Hamed Gheidi, Toshifumi Nakatani, Vincent Leung, James Buckwalter and Peter M. Asbeck
University
of California, San Diego, MaXentric, and Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Mohammad S. Mehrjoo, Samet Zihir, Gabriel M. Rebeiz, and James F.
Buckwalter
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
11:00The Impact of Electro‐thermal Coupling on RF Power Amplifier Performance
Matthew Ozalas
Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA
11:30 Conclusion of Tour and
Laboratory Tour