Monday, September 13
7:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8.00-9.40   Session 1: Handset Power Amplifiers
8:00 Introduction and Welcome by Paul Draxler, Symposium Chair
8:10 1.1 "RF Wireless Handset Transceivers" (Invited)
Sayfe Kiaei,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
8:40 1.2 "Multi-band Power Amplifier on an LTCC Substrate"
Takayuki Furuta, Atsushi Fukuda, Kunihiro Kawai, Hiroshi Okazaki, Shoichi Narahashi, NTT-DoCoMo, Inc.,
Japan
9:00 1.3 "Two-Stage Band-Selectable CMOS Power Amplifier"
JeeYoung Hong, Daisuke Imanishi, Kenichi Okada, Akira Matsuzawa,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
9:20 1.4 "Dual Band Current-mode Class-D CMOS PA using On-board Guanella Reverse Balun"
T. Nakatani1,2, J. Rode1, D. F. Kimball1, L. E. Larson1, P. M. Asbeck1, S. Osman3
1University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2Corporate R&D, Panasonic Corporation, Japan,
3PRDCA, Panasonic Corporation of North America, CA
9:40 Coffee Break
10.10-12.00 Session 2: Linearization & Modeling
10:10 2.1 "Model Order Selection for Adaptive Digital Predistortion"
R. Neil Braithwaite,
Powerwave Technologies, Inc., CA,
10:30 2.2 "Nonlinear Modelling of GaN Device for Microwave Power Amplifiers"
J. B. King, R. G. Brady, T. J. Brazil,
RF & Microwave Research Group, University College, Dublin, Ireland
10:50 2.3 "Application of a Design of Experiment Approach to Handset Power Amplifier Design"
P. J. Zampardi, D. Nelson, S. Rohlfing,
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Newbury Park, CA
11:10 2.4 "Digital Predistortion from an RF Perspective"
M. D. LeFevre, D. W. Runton, C. T. Burns, M. K. Mellor,
RFMD, Chandler, AZ
11.30 2.5 "Learning Systems for Predistortion of a Power Amplifier"
R. Neil Braithwaite,
Powerwave Technologies, Inc., CA,
12:00 Lunch Traditions and Thorens Rooms
1.20-2.50 Session 3: Microwave and Broadband Power Amplifiers
1:20 3.1 "Pulling Power" (Invited)
Steve C. Cripps,
Hywave Associates, Somerset, UK
1:50 3.2 "High Efficiency Class-J Amplifier with Ehanced Harmonic Suppression"
N. Tuffy, A. Zhu, R. G. Brady, T. J. Brazil,
RF & Microwave Research Group, University College, Dublin, Ireland
2:10 3.3 "Analysis of Class B-J Design Space for Broadband and Highly Efficient PA"
D. Yu-Ting Wu, S. Boumaiza,
EmRG, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
2:30 3.4 "High Linearity Auxiliary Envelope Tracking (AET) Syaytem using GaN Class-J Power Amplifier"
Z. Yusuff, S. Woodington, J. Lees, J. Benedikt, P. J. Tasker, S. C. Cripps,
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2:50 Coffee break
3.20-5.00 Session 4: 'Exotic' Power Amplifiers and Characterization
3.20 4.1 "Quasi-Optimal Class E Networks"
P. Blakey, N. Venkatraman,
RF Innovation, Flagstaff, AZ
3.40 4.2 "Synchronous Band-Pass Pulse Width Modulation for High-Efficiency Switching-Mode Power
Amplifiers"
J. Rode, P. M. Asbeck,
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
4.00 4.3 "High efficiency Broadband GaN Power Amplifier IC Spanning from UHF
to L-Band"
J. J. Yan, P. M. Asbeck,
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
4.20 4.4 "Loadpull Data Post-Processing of Multivariable Datasets"
D. Holmes, P. Hart, M. Bokatius,
RF Division, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Tempe, AZ
4.40 4.5 "Transistor Output Parasitics and Intrinsic Waveforms Estimation by Time-Domain Waveform
Measurements and Loadpull"
M. Olavsbraten, M. Ubostad,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
5:00 Reception Traditions Room
7:00 Banquet Buffet University Club Bistro
Tuesday, September 14
7:00 am Continental Breakfast
8.00-9.40 Session 5: High Power Amplifiers
8:00 Second Day Opening Remarks by Paul Draxler, Symposium Chair
8:10 5.1 " Realizing Doherty Power Amplifier Designs" (Invited)
David Runton,
RFMD, Chandler, AZ
8:40 5.2 "Concept of Partitioning Design for First-Pass Success Realization of Complex Linear RF Power Amplifiers for BTS"
Rui Ma1, G. Kompa2, A. Bangert2,
1Nokia-Siemens Networks Technology, Beijing, China,
2Microwave Electronics Lab., University of Kassel, Germany
9:00 5.3 "Broadband and High-EfficiencyGaN HEMT Doherty Power Amplifier"
J. Kim, S. Boumaiza,
EmRG, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
9:20 5.4 "Active Integrated Antenna Implementation of a GaN HEMT Class-F Power Amplifier Designed at 2.45 GHz"
Lu Wang, Hao Xin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
9:40 Coffee Break
10.10-12.00 Session 6: Envelope-Tracking Power Amplifiers and Passive Components
10.10 6.1 "High Efficiency RF Line-up for UMTS WCDMA RF Chain"
D. Kimball, J. J. Yan, P. Draxler*, C. Hsia, P. M. Asbeck
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
*UCSD & Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
10.30 6.2 "A Wideband High Efficiency Envelope Tracking Power Amplifiers using High Voltage GaAs HBTs"
C. Hsia, D. Kimball, P. Draxler*, J. J. Yan, P. M. Asbeck
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
*UCSD & Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
10.50 6.3 "Dynamic Biasing for Linear and Efficient Microwave Amplification"
J. F. Miranda, M. Olavsbraten,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
11.10 6.4 "Ferroelectric Thick-Film Varactors for Efficiency Enhancement of Power Amplifiers"
H. Maune, M. Sazegar, X. Zhou, Y. Zheng, R. Jakoby
Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Microwave Engineering, Darmstadt, Germany
11.30 6.5 "Compact Dual-Band Wilkinson Power Divider using Lumped Component Resonators in p-shaped Sections"
Z. Wang, J. S. Jang, C. W. Park,
Universite du Quebec a Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
11:50 Closing Remarks and Conclusion of Symposium