Open AccessModelling power amplifier impairments in mmWave phased‐array systems
Author(s) -
Maletic Nebojsa,
Grass Eckhard
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/ell2.12184
Subject(s) - phased array , amplifier , electronic engineering , power (physics) , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering , physics , cmos , antenna (radio) , quantum mechanics
This letter presents an analytical framework to study the distortion effect of power amplifiers (PA) in a single‐stream millimetre wave (mmWave) system with a radio‐frequency beamforming architecture. A third‐order nonlinearity PA model is used. The impact of PA nonlinearity on the transmitter performance is evaluated by means of its normalised mean square error. Also, the effect of PA compression on the system capacity in a line‐of‐sight channel is analysed. All analytical results are supported with Monte‐Carlo simulations.