• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.27-27
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• 2002

In this paper, the LPA(Linear Power Amplifier) using new analog feedforward linearizer for IMT-2000 frequency band(2110MHz∼2170MHz) is proposed and fabricated. The designed analog feedforward linearizer system possessing the characteristics of stable operation for input power variation is simple structure and small size. When two-tones in IMT-2000 frequency band are applied to an amplifier, this LPA have the average output power is about 30W and the IMD value is below about 60dBc without correcting the circuit. In camparision with an amplifier without feedforward system at the same output power, the supposed analog feedforward linear amplifier posseses improved the IMD characteristics of over 23dB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.285-291
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• 2002

In this paper, the LPA(Linear Power Amplifier) using new analog feedforward linearizer for IMT-2000 frequency band(2110MHz∼2170MHz) is proposed and fabricated. The designed analog feedforward linearizer system possessing the characteristics of stable operation for input power variation is simple structure and small size. When two-tones in IMT-2000 frequency band are applied to an amplifier, this LPA have the average output power is about 30W and the IMD value is below about 60dBc without correcting the circuit. In camparision with an amplifier without feedforward system at the same output power, the supposed analog feedforward linear amplifier posseses improved the IMD characteristics of over 23dB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.116-123
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• 2000

This paper presents a linearizer using the feedforward loop which can be applied to PCS base-station applications. This linearizer used a IM amplifier and an auxiliary amplifier in order to remove delay lines used in the predistortor using the feedforward technique. The delay line in error loop is changed by the main power amplifier(PA) and the error amplifier is utilized to amplify the error signal which fed to the output of main amplifier. The linearizer was simulated by HP ADS ver 1.1 and fabricated on GML 1000 with thickness of 0.8 mm and dielectric constant of 3.2. Two-tone signals at 1.85 GHz and 1.851 GHz with -7dBm/tone from synthesizers are injected into the main PA. The main PA with a 27 dB gain and a $P_{1dB}$ of 29 dBm(two-tone) was utilized. The reduction of intermodulation distortion (IMD) is around 17 dB.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.337-340
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• 2000

In this paper, I compared some characteristics between HPA and LPA using Feedforward method. Feedforward method is known for best IMD correction. HPA generated 46.5㏈c at 45.5㏈m output power. But, using feedforward linearing method, I could improve IMD to 67.17㏈c at the same output power. IMD could be improved 20.67㏈ at 45.5㏈m output power. I measured average power, IMD, total current, and efficiency of two amplifier at many different power levels. I could get about 70d3c IMD using feedforward method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2001

Predistorter linearizer having small size and good efficiency is frequently used in High Power Amplifier linearizer system. In this paper, the amount of IMD signal cancellation according to amplitude and phase of predistorter in predistorter type lincarizer is investigated by new experiment method. In the combining method of predistorter type, IMD signal is combined at the amplifier input port, the magnitude and phase of combining signals cannot be easily expected due to different magnitude and phase of incoming signals. By experiment, it is measured that Predistorter linearizer has lower amount of lMD signal cancellation than thoce of Feedforward linearizer at the same condition (amplitude and phase).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11c
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• pp.715-717
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 feedforward 선형 증폭기에서의 지연 불일치에 의한 효과를 최소화하기 위한 등화기의 차수 결정에 관하여 수학적 접근과 모의실험을 하였다. 현재 feedforward 선형 증폭기에서 주로 사용하는 vector modulator는 지연 불일치에 확실한 개선을 이루지 못하고 있다. 이것을 극복하고자 vector modulator를 등화기로 대체하고 증폭기와 시지연선의 최대시간불일치와 sampling frequency와의 관계로 등화기의 차수를 결정하여 지연 불일치에 의한 오류 제거능력을 향상시켰다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.118-123
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• 2001

For multi-carrier communication system, power amplifier generate intermodulation products caused by their nonlinear characteristics. Intermodulation products arised around the carrier frequency cannot be filtered out, operate as noise source for tile adjacent channel and thus degrades the quality of communication. In this paper, the 1850MHz-band RF linear power amplifier has been designed and fabricated with feedforward loop. The error signal loop consists of several key components such as phase shifter and attenuator, subtracter. The proposed Linearizer was tested with two-tone signals separated 10MHz apart at the center frequency of 1850MHz. The experimental results show C/I improvement by 14.5${\~}$20dB over 15dB dynamic range(33${\~}$47.8dBm) which gave IMD of 53.25${\~}$59dBc for the designed LPA.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.91-97
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• 2000

Tn this paper, a novel control circuit applicable to the error sensor loop block in the feedforward linearizer system is proposed. The proposed control circuit is applied to the error sensor loop block, where in the 11dB power range, it operates stably, and makes main carrier signals to be eliminated more than 40dB below 3$\^$rd/ order IM level. In the operating point, the amplitude control error is 0.05∼0.12dB, and the phase control error is smaller than 0.02。. It is verified theoretically as well as experimentally that the control circuit can precisely compensate the variation of nonlinear characteristics in a high power amplifier, due to the variations of input power, operating temperature, humidity and the other system environments.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.3 no.2 s.5
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• pp.268-275
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• 1999

In this paper, a new type of linearization technique proposed, in which the predistortor was added to the feedforward linearizer. As the input power level is applied to HPA, the gain and phase characteristics of the amplifier are also varied. By using of the predistorter the amplitude imbalance and phase imbalance is kept constant. Experimental results are present for Korea PCS frequency band. The center frequency of the feedforward amplifier is 1.843.75 MHz with 1.23 MHz bandwidth. The 2-tone intermodulation distortion at 37dBm output power is about -50dBc, and spurious emission are -46dBc at $fc{\pm}\;885KHz\;and\;-52dBc\;at\;fc\;{\pm}1.98MHz$, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1086-1093
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• 2001

A new linearization technique for RF high-power amplifiers(HPAs) using n-th order error signal generator (ESGn) is proposed. The n-th order ESG generates an error signal based on the complex envelope transfer characteristics of the HPA, which is combined at the output of the HPA. Therefore, the higher-order nonlinearlities are not affected by the ESG$\_$n/ and the stability of the linearized system is guaranteed due to the inherent open-loop configuration. Moreover, the output delay loss can be avoided, because the error signal is generated with the input signal of the HPA. The IMD(intermodulation distortion) improvement obtained applying the ESG$\_$7/ to 5 W class A HPA in cellular band demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed postdistortion system.