High Efficiency RF and Microwave Solid State Power AmplifiersISBN: 978-0-470-51300-2
Hardcover
514 pages
August 2009
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His research activities are mainly focused on the field of microwave and millimetre-wave electronics, and in particular on design criteria for nonlinear microwave subsystems. This activity resulted in the development of innovative design criteria for high efficiency and high linear power amplifiers, oriented to the optimization of power performance making use of harmonic tuning classes of operation. The results of such activities have been presented in major conferences and ublished in international journals.
Paolo Colantonio has been responsible for the work package activity on ‘power amplifier design overview’ in the VI-FP European Network of Excellence TARGET (January 2004–June 2005) and general chairman of the international event ‘First TARGET NoE Workshop on RF Power Amplifiers’, held in Orvieto, Italy 2005.
He is author or co-author of more than 120 papers on PA design published in refereed journals or international conference proceedings and he has been awarded Best Poster Paper at GAAS 2000 (IMD performances of harmonically tuned microwave power amplifiers) and Best Paper at EuMIC 2007 (A 6W Uneven Doherty Power Amplifier in GaN Technology).
Franco Giannini was born in Galatina (LE), on November 9,
1944, and graduated in Electronics Engineering, summa cum
laude in 1968, before getting the chair of Full Professor of
Applied Electronics in 1980. In 2008 he was awarded the Laurea
Honoris Causa Scientiarum Technicarum degree by the Warsaw
University of Technology (WUT), Poland.
Since 1981 he has been at the University of Roma ‘Tor
Vergata’, where he has been serving as Head of Department,
Vice President for International Affairs, Pro-Rector, and Dean of
the Faculty of Electronics Engineering. He presently chairs
theMicrowave Engineering Centre for Space Applications
(MECSA).
He has been working on modelling, characterization and design
methodologies of active and passive microwave components and
circuits, including MICs and MMICs for telecommunication and space
applications, authoring or co-authoring more than 400 scientific
contributions.
He chaired the theme MMICs of the national project MADESS I of the
CNR and was a member of the Management Board of MADESS II, chairman
of the theme MMICs of the National Project MICROELECTRONICS, and
member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Space Agency
(ASI).
He has also been active in many European Projects, and was the
Italian representative in the ‘European Working Group for
GaAs Microelectronics’. He has been acting as consultant for
various national and international organizations, including the ITU
for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the European
Union for ESPRIT, LTR, ISTC projects. He has been chairman of
various International Symposia on Microwave & MillimetreWave
Techniques and is a member of many committees of international
scientific conferences.
In 1996 Professor Giannini was awarded the ‘Irena Galewska
Kielbasinski Prize’ by the Technical University of Darmstadt,
Germany, and an Honorary Professorship by WUT, Poland, in 2001.
Ernesto Limiti has been Full Professor of Electronics at
the University of Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ since 2002, after
being associate professor and researcher at the same university
since 1991.
He teaches undergraduate courses in microwave electronics, namely
Microwave Electronics (basic) andMicrowave Instrumentation and
Measurements, all of them at the LaureaMagistrale in the
Electronic Engineering degree course (i.e. towards students with at
least three years experience at the university). He also teaches
MSc and PhD courses, both at the University of Roma ‘Tor
Vergata’ and at other Italian universities.
His scientific interests encompass a broad range of topics,
including microwave active device characterization and modelling,
regarding both linear (small-signal and noise) and nonlinear
regimes and microwave subsystems design methodologies. Regarding
the latter, high efficiency power amplifier design methodologies
have been his focus since 1992, oriented towards power performance
optimization making use of harmonic tuning operating classes. This
research topic has been investigated also in the frame of European
research projects, e.g. Manpower, Edge, and others. The results on
the work in high efficiency power amplifier design approaches have
been presented in major conferences and published in international
journals.
Ernesto Limiti is author or co-author of more than 200 papers
appearing in refereed journals or international conference
proceedings. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the
International Journal of Microwave and Millimetre-Wave CAE (Wiley
Interscience), serving also as a reviewer for various IEEE
Transactions and IET Journals.
He has been general chairman and organizer of the 2004
international workshop on Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and
Millimetre-wave Circuits (INMMiC 2004) as well as the 11th
International Symposium on Microwave and Optical Technology (ISMOT
2007).