• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.669-679
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• 2003

Through AIS(Automatic Identification System), ITU-R suggested the navigational data communication between ships and between ships and shore stations for the better safety of navigation, and it requires two different the transmitting output power level depending on its operating mode. According to ITU's recommendation, these levels should reach within 20% of its final value in 1ms. In this paper, an adequate feedback control circuit for power amplifier module is designed and implemented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.558-567
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• 1997

Linear power amplifier modules with high-efficiency have been developed for PCS handy phone. These modules were designed using extracted large-signal models of MESFETs and harmonic balance simulation. The modules are intended for low-tier and high-tier at the operation frequency range of 1750 ~ 1780 MHz. For low-tier module, the output power and $IMD_3$ were 23.2 dBm and 31 dBc, respectively, at power-added efficiency of 34% with the supply drain bias of 3.6 V. For high-tier module, the output power and $IMD_3$ were 272.2 dBm and 31 dBc, respectively, at power-added efficiency of 33% with the supply drain bias of 4.2 V. These linear power amplifier modules are suitable for PCS handy phone.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.12A
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• pp.1932-1938
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• 1999

In this paper, planar duplexer module combined with power amplifier is described. This new scheme is to enhance power efficiency as well as to minimize the size of RF circuit in CDMA phone. Each filter which was a part of duplexer, was realized with planar type and rearranged into the power amplifier module on the multilayer board. Each electrical specifications of existing power amplifier and duplexer were satisfied. Especially, ACPR performances measured at output power of 24dBm which is 2dB lower than that of a conventional one, meet IS-95 for a power amplifier of CDMA phone. Overall current about 80mA has been successfully saved as a result of new scheme. In addition, the module size has been reduced to be as small as 1.08CC.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.251-257
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• 2004

AIS(Automatic Identification System), was suggested for the navigational data communication between ships and between ships and shore stations for the better safety of navigation, and it requires two different the transmitting output power level depending on its operating mode. According to ITU's recommendation, these levels should reach within 20 % of its final value in 1 ms. In this paper, an adequate feedback control circuit for power amplifier module is designed and implemented.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.49-54
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• 2001

In this work, we developed a Ka-band hybrid 4-stage power amplifier module using GaAs pHEMTs and waveguide to microstrip transitions. It has high gain and high output power characteristics. We used a 10 mil- thickness duroid substrate to fabricate this power amplifier and waveguide to microstrip transitions. The fabricated waveguide to microstrip transition showed about 1 dB insertion loss(back to back) at 32 40 GHz. The measured results of power amplifier module showed over 1W output power at 36.1 - 37.1 GHz. And it showed 31 dBm output power, 24 dB power gain and 15 % power-added efficiency(PAE) at 36.5 GHz.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.47-58
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• 2007

In this paper, we designed and manufactured the distortion-cancellation module which is able to compensate thermal-noise distortion by software. The distortion-cancellation algorithm not only bring forth system non-linear distortion by input level but also bring compensate component of distortion by thermal to get rid off distortion from now on. After TMS 320C6711 DSP to recognize our algorithm, we manufactured the module for every kinds of system. To evaluate efficiency of the distortion-cancellation module, we designed and manufactured communication system. By measured result, if system output power is -3dBm equally, 12dB of ACLR has improved in 1MHz away from a center frequency, and also gain has increased up to 0.5dB.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.214-223
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• 2014

A fully-integrated penta-band reconfigurable power amplifier (PA) is developed for handset Tx applications. The output structure of the proposed PA is composed of the fixed output matching network, power and frequency reconfigurable networks, and post-PA distribution switches. In this work, a new reconfiguration technique is proposed for a specific band requiring power and frequency reconfiguration simultaneously. The design parameters for the proposed reconfiguration are newly derived and applied to the PA. To reduce the module size, the switches of reconfigurable output networks and post-PA switches are integrated into a single IC using a $0.18{\mu}m$ silicon-on-insulator CMOS process, and a compact size of $5mm{\times}5mm$ is thus achieved. The fabricated W-CDMA PA module shows adjacent channel leakage ratios better than -39 dBc up to the rated linear power and power-added efficiencies of higher than around 38% at the maximum linear output power over all the bands. Efficiency degradation is limited to 2.5% to 3% compared to the single-band reference PA.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.231-238
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• 2019

In this paper, we have studied how to improve the amplifiers efficiency by minimizing the combining loss when several unit power amplifiers are combined to obtain high output power. Specifically, we have developed Ka-band Spatial Combining Amplifier. The fabricated Spatial Combining Amplifier is a Ka-band 20W class SSPA, which uses a 5W class unit amplifier module 8EA designed using a GaN bare die. We also combined The unit amplifier module using 8-way spatial divider and combiner with a hybrid radial structure. The output combining loss of the fabricated spatial coupler is about 0.334dB, which is about 92.6% efficiency. In this paper, we developed a Spatial Combining Amplifier with a maximum saturation output of 10W and a power addition efficiency of over 15%. As a result, we achieved the maximum saturation output of 30W and the power addition efficiency of 19%.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.943-948
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• 2018

In this paper, SSPA Module for X-band radar was designed and fabricated by using GaN MMIC. For the purpose of configuring the high power SSPA module, the drive steamers are composed of 2-layers of GaN MMIC with considering Gain Loss. In addition, the power divider and power combiner used a 4way approach by designing a 4-stage power amplifier. The power divider has a loss of -3.0dB or more, and the I/O has a loss of -0.2dB in the power combiner and the phase difference between the ports are good at $2^{\circ}$ on average. The fabricated SSPA module got the measurement results that satisfy a Gain 48dB, P(sat)=88.3W(49.46 dBm), PAE=30.3% or more efficiency in condition of frequency range 9~10GHz. The fabricated X-Band SSPA module can be applied in RF performance improvement for SSPA module whit improvement of power divider/combiner.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.229-234
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• 2021

In this paper, a study was conducted on the power amplifier control required to design an eLoran transmitter system using a low-height antenna. The eLoran transmitter developed during the eLoran technology development project conducted in Korea used a small 35 m antenna due to the difficulty of securing a site for antenna installation. This antenna height is very low compared to the height of 750 m which is required for eLoran 100 kHz signal transmission without any radiation loss. In the case of using such a small antenna, not only the radiation efficiency of the transmission is lowered, but also the power module control must be performed more precisely in order to transmit the eLoran standard signal. The equivalent RLC circuit of the transmitter system was implemented and transient analysis was conducted to derive the input required voltage for satisfying the output requirement. The voltage waveform was also generated by the RLC circuit analysis to generate the eLoran signal. Furthermore, we suggest power width modulation method to control eLoran power amplifier module more sophisticatedly.