Cripps Steve C. RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications

2nd edition. — Artech House, 2006. — 472 p. — ISBN: 978-1596930186.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.CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Linear Power Amplifier Design
CHAPTER 3 Conventional High Efficiency Amplifier Modes
CHAPTER 4 Class AB PAs at GHz Frequencies
CHAPTER 5 Practical Design of Linear RF Power Amplifiers
CHAPTER 6 Overdriven PAs and the Class F Mode
CHAPTER 7 Switching Mode Amplifiers for RF Applications
CHAPTER 8 Switching PA Modes at GHz Frequencies
CHAPTER 9 Nonlinear Effects in RF Power Amplifiers
CHAPTER 10 Efficiency Enhancement Techniques
CHAPTER 11 Power Amplifier Bias Circuit Design
CHAPTER 12 Load-Pull Techniques
CHAPTER 13 Power Amplifier Architecture
CHAPTER 14 Power Amplifier Linearization Techniques