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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. 10.5% 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
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-7%
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Which countries lead Advanced Power Amplifier Design research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (824 and 204 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 824 works
  2. 2 United States 204 works
  3. 3 India 188 works
  4. 4 South Korea 118 works
  5. 5 Japan 81 works
  6. 6 Germany 78 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 63 works
  8. 8 France 62 works
  9. 9 Italy 56 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 51 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: 47.7%United States: 11.8%India: 10.9%South Korea: 6.9%6 others listed: 22.7%48%largest
China824 · 47.7%United States204 · 11.8%India188 · 10.9%South Korea118 · 6.9%6 others listed392 · 22.7%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Power Amplifier Design research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Advanced Power Amplifier Design research, followed by Hangzhou Dianzi University and Southeast University.

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Power Amplifier Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Power Amplifier Design include Ke Wu and Gerhard Fettweis.

  1. 1 Ke Wu Canada 3.2k citations
  2. 2 Gerhard Fettweis Germany 2.5k citations

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

Where is Advanced Power Amplifier Design research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Power Amplifier Design research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chengdu (China) and Guangzhou (China).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 147 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 103 works
  3. 3 Chengdu China 82 works
  4. 4 Guangzhou China 66 works
  5. 5 Seoul South Korea 63 works
  6. 6 Xi'an China 63 works
  7. 7 Hangzhou China 55 works
  8. 8 Shanghai China 53 works
  9. 9 Tokyo Japan 41 works
  10. 10 Chongqing China 32 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Power Amplifier Design?

Among universities, judged by research, University College Dublin, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 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%10%20%mean 7.42%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University College Dublin: 9, 17.3%Chalmers University of Technology: 14, 14.2%University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 67, 3.3%Sungkyunkwan University: 14, 9.9%Hangzhou Dianzi University: 43, 2.2%Tianjin University: 20, 6.3%South China University of Technology: 35, 3.8%Delft University of Technology: 13, 10.1%Southeast University: 42, 2.5%Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 25, 4.6%University College D…Chalmers University …Sungkyunkwan Univers…University of Electr…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University College DublinIreland 69.717.3%10.3×9 +26.0%
2 Chalmers University of TechnologySweden 66.614.2%25.8×14 -17.6%
3 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 60.73.3%27.6×67 +66.7%
4 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 56.79.9%11.5×14 +34.9%
5 Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 56.52.2%60.4×43 +109.4%
6 Tianjin UniversityChina 55.56.3%7.8×20 +407.1%
7 South China University of TechnologyChina 54.53.8%15.1×35 +52.7%
8 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 53.810.1%9.2×13 -41.1%
9 Southeast UniversityChina 53.62.5%14.5×42 +24.0%
10 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 51.14.6%19.3×25 +46.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Advanced Power Amplifier Design research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% lower than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.