High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design for 28 GHz 5G Transmitters

Introduction.- Power Amplifier Fundamentals.- Doherty Power Amplifier Design.- Stacked Class-E Power Amplifier.- Doherty Class-E Power Amplifier.- Inverse Class-D Power Amplifier.- Phased-Array transmitter.

Nourhan Elsayed received her PhD Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020, Khalifa University. She received her BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2014 from Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. She then received her MSc. in Electrical Engineering from The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2016. Nourhan's research work is in RF circuit design, specifically high efficiency transmitter design for 5G applications. She has been working on multiple mm-wave designs in 22nm FDSOI including switching amplifiers and efficiency enhancement techniques.

Hani Saleh (SM'16) is an assistant professor of electronic engineering at Khalifa University since Jan, 2012. He is an active member in KSRC (Khalifa University Research Center) where he leads a project for the development of wearable blood glucose monitor SOC and a mobile surveillance SOC and safe exercise monitoring device. Hani published 81 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, he has 11 issued US patents and 3 pending patent applications. Hani has a total of 19 years of industrial experience in ASIC chip design, microprocessor design, DSP core design, graphics core design and embedded system design. His experience spans DSP core design, microprocessor peripherals design, microprocessors and graphics core deign. Prior to joining Khalifa University he worked as a Senior Chip Designer (Technical Lead) at Apple incorporation; where he worked on the design and implementation of Apple next generation graphics cores for its mobile products (iPad, iPhone, ...etc.), prior to joining Apple, he worked for several leading semiconductor companies including Intel (ATOM mobile microprocessor design), AMD (Bobcat mobile microprocessor design), Qualcomm (QDSP DSP core design for mobile SOC's), Synopsys (a key member of Synopsys turnkey design group where he taped out many ASICs and designed the I2C DW IP included in Synopys DesignWare library), Fujitsu (SPARC compatible high performance