Design and Control of RF Power Amplifiers

This text investigates various architectures and concepts for the design and control of radio-frequency (RF) power amplifiers, covering merits and challenges of integrating RF power amplifiers in various technologies. It also introduces a number of RF power amplifier performance metrics and provides a thorough review of various power amplifier topologies, followed by a description of approaches and architectures for the control and linearization of these. An alternative parallel amplifier architecture introduced in this book offers a solution to enhancing efficiency in systems using power control.