Title:
Silicon-based RF/mm-wave power amplifiers and transmitters for future energy-efficient and broadband communication systems

dc.contributor.advisor Wang, Hua
dc.contributor.author Hu, Song
dc.contributor.committeeMember Cressler, John D.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ghovanloo, Maysam
dc.contributor.committeeMember Chang, Gee-Kung
dc.contributor.committeeMember Zhou, Haomin
dc.contributor.department Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2017-06-07T17:41:09Z
dc.date.available 2017-06-07T17:41:09Z
dc.date.created 2017-05
dc.date.issued 2017-03-31
dc.date.submitted May 2017
dc.date.updated 2017-06-07T17:41:09Z
dc.description.abstract Power amplifier (PA) often governs the energy efficiency of a wireless transceiver. Its linearity is also of paramount importance to ensure the signal fidelity. Moreover, its broadband operation is highly desired for high-speed wireless communication. However, integrating a PA in silicon entails challenges due to the PA’s nature of large-signal and highly dynamic operation. This research exploits the mixed-signal computation and novel on-chip electromagnetic networks to enable intelligent RF/millimeter-wave large-signal operation in silicon. This research demonstrates the introduced design methodologies by silicon implementations. In a multiband millimeter-wave PA in silicon, mixed-signal reconfiguration and a novel on-chip power combiner enable broadband operation for fifth-generation (5G) communication. In a digital Doherty PA in silicon, flexible and precise digital control optimizes in-field Doherty efficiency enhancement and enables robustness against antenna mismatch. In addition, this research demonstrates two hybrid PA efficiency enhancement techniques that leverage digital-intensive architectures in silicon. Mixed-signal linearization is introduced in these architectures to eliminate the trade-off between efficiency and linearity.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/58267
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject 5G
dc.subject Antenna
dc.subject BiCMOS
dc.subject Broadband
dc.subject CMOS
dc.subject Digital
dc.subject Doherty
dc.subject Efficiency
dc.subject Electromagnetic
dc.subject Hybrid
dc.subject Large signal
dc.subject Linearity
dc.subject Millimeter wave
dc.subject Mixed signal
dc.subject Multiband
dc.subject Power amplifier
dc.subject RF
dc.subject Silicon
dc.subject Transmitter
dc.subject Wireless
dc.title Silicon-based RF/mm-wave power amplifiers and transmitters for future energy-efficient and broadband communication systems
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Wang, Hua
local.contributor.corporatename School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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