Modelling power amplifier impairments in mmWave phased‐array systems.

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]