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Advanced Power Amplifier Design

Advanced Power Amplifier Design is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on RF power amplifiers and predistortion techniques, including digital predistortion, behavioral modeling, memory effects, high efficiency, wideband signals, IQ imbalance compensation, class-F amplifiers, envelope tracking, and CMOS design.

  • RF Power Amplifiers
  • Digital Predistortion
  • Behavioral Modeling
  • Memory Effects
  • High Efficiency
  • Wideband Signals
  • IQ Imbalance Compensation
  • Class-F Amplifiers
  • Envelope Tracking
  • CMOS Design
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Power Amplifier Design

Which countries lead Advanced Power Amplifier Design research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 258 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 United States 258 works
  3. 3 India 227 works
  4. 4 South Korea 141 works
  5. 5 Germany 97 works
  6. 6 Japan 97 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 75 works
  8. 8 France 73 works
  9. 9 Italy 68 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 58 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 48.5%United States: 12.1%India: 10.7%South Korea: 6.6%6 others listed: 22.1%49%largest
China1,032 · 48.5%United States258 · 12.1%India227 · 10.7%South Korea141 · 6.6%6 others listed470 · 22.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Power Amplifier Design research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Advanced Power Amplifier Design research, followed by Southeast University and Hangzhou Dianzi University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 79 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 57 works
  3. 3 Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 50 works
  4. 4 Xidian UniversityChina 43 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 42 works
  6. 6 South China University of TechnologyChina 40 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 33 works
  8. 8 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 32 works
  9. 9 Chongqing UniversityChina 30 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Power Amplifier Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Power Amplifier Design include Frede Blaabjerg, Hua Zhang and Stephen Boyd.

  1. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  2. 2 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  3. 3 Stephen Boyd United States 142k citations
  4. 4 Lirong Zheng China 120k citations
  5. 5 Bruce Thompson United States 120k citations
  6. 6 Rui Zhang Singapore 115k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Power Amplifier Design?

The most cited paper in Advanced Power Amplifier Design is "Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of multicarriermodulation by selected mapping" (Robert Bäuml, Robert F. H. Fischer, J.B. Huber, 1996), with 1,693 citations. Next come "Effects of clipping and filtering on the performance of OFDM" (1,276) and "A Robust Digital Baseband Predistorter Constructed Using Memory Polynomials" (1,274).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of multicarriermodulation by selected mapping Robert Bäuml, Robert F. H. Fischer, J.B. Huber · Electronics Letters 24 Oct 1996 1,693
2 Effects of clipping and filtering on the performance of OFDM Xiaodong Li, Leonard J. Cimini · IEEE Communications Letters May 1998 1,276
3 A Robust Digital Baseband Predistorter Constructed Using Memory Polynomials Lei Ding, G. Tong Zhou, Dennis R. Morgan et al. · IEEE Transactions on Communications 2004 1,274
4 Power amplifiers and transmitters for RF and microwave Frederick Herbert Raab, Peter M. Asbeck, Steve Cripps et al. · IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Mar 2002 1,207
5 Direct-conversion radio transceivers for digital communications A.A. Abidi · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 1995 1,006
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Power Amplifier Design research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Power Amplifier Design research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chengdu (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hsinchu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 182 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 117 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 98 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 79 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 75 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 75 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 67 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 64 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 47 works
  10. 10 ChongqingChina 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HsinchuTW · 23.2 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Power Amplifier Design than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Power Amplifier Design?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, South China University of Technology and University College Dublin score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 17.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College D…Chongqing UniversitySouth China Universi…University of Electr…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 62.49.9%30.7×79 +20.7%
2South China University of TechnologyChina 60.617.4%15.9×40 +296.9%
3University College DublinIreland 60.345.6%8.4×10 -21.4%
4Chongqing UniversityChina 58.918.6%12.2×30 +472.9%
5Southeast UniversityChina 58.711.2%16.8×57 +47.6%
6Chalmers University of TechnologySweden 58.218.8%26.2×15 +35.0%
7Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 58.119.9%10.1×16 +95.0%
8Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 54.29.9%65.2×50 +115.6%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 53.817.1%6.1×33 +24.4%
10Xidian UniversityChina 53.511.0%25.7×43 +351.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Power Amplifier Design, country by country

Is Advanced Power Amplifier Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Power Amplifier Design.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Power Amplifier Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0087% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Power Amplifier Design over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Power Amplifier Design9.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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