Power Amplifier Design

Over twenty experts put everything you need to know about power amplifier linearization, measuring, modeling and distortion at your fingertips. Specification, Analysis, and Measurement of Distortion: Effective Output Intercept Point (EOIP) - A Useful RF Transmitter Figure-of-Merit; Specifying Power Amplifier Linearity via Intermodulation Distortion; Spectral Sidelobe Regrowth in Saturating Amplifiers; Envelope Distortion Models with Memory Improve Some Amplifier Regrowth Predictions; Using Digital Modulation to Measure and model RF Amplifier Distortion; Predistortion Techniques: Amplifier Linearization Using Adaptive RF Predistortion; Suppress Spectral Sidelobe Regrowth with Data Signal Distortion; Practical Designs: The Magnetron - A Low-Noise, Long-Life Amplifier; Biasing LDMOS FETs for Linear Operation; Inside the RF Power Transistor; Efficient RF Power Amplifiers for Portable Communications; High-Efficiency, Two-Stage Power Amplifiers with Nearly Constant Saturated Output Power; Design of a 2.4 GHz RF Power Amplifier Module for ISM-Band Wireless Communications; 2-6 GHz Commercial Power Amplifier; A Push-Pull 300-Watt Amplifier for 81.36 MHz.