Reviewing the previous edition, "IEEE Microwave Magazine" boasted, "anyone designing power amplifiers will find this book thought provoking and useful." Professionals in the field agreed as the book went on to be one of our top-selling RF design titles. This extensively revised edition of "RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications" offers practitioners a comprehensive, practical, and up-to-date understanding of how to tackle a PA (power amplifier) design with confidence and quickly determine the cause of malfunctioning hardware. Among the numerous updates, the Second Edition includes five new chapters on some of today's most important topics, such as class AB PAs at GHz frequencies; switching PA modes at GHz frequencies; signals, modulation systems, and PA nonlinearities; power amplifier bias circuit design; and load-pull techniques. Supported with nearly 200 illustrations, the book contains the most complete survey of RF PA efficiency enhancement and linearization techniques in a single volume.
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Steve C. Cripps is an independent consultant concentrating in the area of RF power amplifier design. He is also the author of Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design (Artech House, 2002) and has over 20 years of experience in microwave technology design and development. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book on PA design for wireless comms,
By Al Castelino (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House Microwave Library) (Hardcover)
An excellent source of information. Mr Cripps very articulatly reviews at all classes of RF power amplification, and explains theoretical design principles and suggests improvements. His 'Load-pull' technique method is already widely used in design of PA's and serves as a good design aid. Although I would have liked him to go deeper into 'high-efficiciency PA techniques, spending more time on 'Chierix, Khan and Doherty methods. His book is the best reference on PA's I have seen in the last decade, I could not put it down. I look forward to his next book
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Excellent!,
By Adrian Sutinjo (CALGARY, ALBERTA Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House Microwave Library) (Hardcover)
I gained a lot of insights from this book. It methodically treats RF power amplifier in a way that develops understanding of the fundamentals. I particulary like the explanation on the Load-Pull Countours/Theory (Ch 2), Matching Network Design for Reduced Conduction Angle PAs(Ch 3), and the Two-Tone Envelope Analysis (Ch 7). In short, thanks to this book, the way I look at PAs has been transformed: from nebulous beliefs and assumptions to insights and better understanding. I believe this book is a must have for Engineers working on RF PAs. Sincerely, ATS
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new and improved,
By it (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications, Second Edition (Artech House Microwave Library) (Hardcover)
This second edition has added 120 pages of new material and revised much of the first edition material.
The author addresses common misconceptions and overlooked phenomena with explanations and simulation results.
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power amplifiers, nonlinear effects, polar loop, waveform engineering, gallium nitride, feedback amplifiers, nonlinear microwave circuits, loadline theory, conduction angle modes, efficiency amplifier modes, second harmonic voltage component, loadline match, loadline resistance, input varactor, quiescent bias setting, device output capacitance, outphasing system, loadline impedance, halfwave rectified sinewave, second harmonic impedance, efficiency enhancement techniques, fundamental voltage component, negative resistance component, maximum drive level, varactor effects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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power amplifiers, nonlinear effects, polar loop, waveform engineering, gallium nitride, feedback amplifiers, nonlinear microwave circuits, loadline theory, conduction angle modes, efficiency amplifier modes, second harmonic voltage component, loadline match, loadline resistance, input varactor, quiescent bias setting, device output capacitance, outphasing system, loadline impedance, halfwave rectified sinewave, second harmonic impedance, efficiency enhancement techniques, fundamental voltage component, negative resistance component, maximum drive level, varactor effects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Microwave Theory, Practical Design of Linear, Artech House, Fort Worth, Long Beach, Conventional High Efficiency Amplifier Modes, Power Amplifier Bias Circuit Design, Power Amplifier Architecture, Reduced Conduction Angle Mode, Microwave Symp, Advanced Techniques, Power Amplifier Linearization Techniques, Overdriven Class, Nonlinear Capacitance Effects, Class E-Simplified Analysis, Cartesian Loop, Two-Carrier Power Series Analysis, Low-Pass Matching Networks, Vdc Imax, Integrated Circ, The Doherty Amplifier, Outphasing Techniques, Two-Carrier Envelope Analysis, Smoothed Class, Push-Pull Amplifiers Browse Sample Pages:
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