• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2003

New efficiency enhancement techniques have been devised and implemented to InGaP/GaAs HBT MMIC power amplifiers for W-CDMA mobile terminals applications. Two different types of bias current control circuits that select the efficient quiescent currents in accordance with the required output power levels are proposed for overall power efficiency improvement. A dual chain power amplifier with single matching network composed of two different parallel-connected power amplifier is also introduced. With these efficiency enhancement techniques, the implemented MMIC power amplifiers presents power added efficiency (PAE) more than 14.8 % and adjacent channel leakage ratio(ACLR) lower than -39 dBc at 20 dBm output power and PAE more than 39.4% and ACLR lower than -33 dBc at 28 dBm output power. The average power usage efficiency of the power amplifier is improved by a factor of more than 1.415 with the bias current control circuits and even up to a factor of 3 with the dual chain power amplifier.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2002

This paper presents MMIC drive and power amplifiers covering 6-18 ㎓. For simple wideband impedance matching and less sensitivity to fabrication variation, modified distributed topologies are employed in the both amplifiers. Cascade amplifiers with a self-biasing circuit through feedback resistors are used as unit gain blocks in the drive amplifier, resulting in high gain, high stability, and compact chip size. Self impedance matching and high-pass, low-pass impedance matching networks are used in the power amplifier. In measured results, the drive amplifier showed good return losses ($S_11,{\;}S_{22}{\;}<{\;}-10.5{\;}dB$), gain flatness ($S_{21}={\;}16{\;}{\pm}0.6{\;}dB$), and $P_{1dB}{\;}>{\;}22{\;}dBm$ over 6-18 GHz. The power amplifier showed $P_{1dB}{\;}>{\;}28.8{\;}dBm$ and $P_{sat}{\;}{\approx}{\;}30.0{\;}dBm$ with good small signal characteristics ($S_{11}<-10{\;}dB,{\;}S_{22}{\;}<{\;}-6{\;}dB,{\;}and{\;}S_{21}={\;}18.5{\;}{\pm}{\;}1.25{\;}dB$) over 6-18 GHz.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.365-378
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• 2011

Piezo-based active structural health monitoring (SHM) requires amplifiers specifically designed for capacitive loads. Moreover, with the increase in number of applications of wireless SHM systems, energy efficiency and cost reduction for this type of amplifiers is becoming a requirement. General lab grade amplifiers are big and costly, and not built for outdoor environments. Although some piezoceramic power amplifiers are available in the market, none of them are specifically targeting the wireless constraints and low power requirements. In this paper, a piezoceramic transducer amplifier for wireless active SHM systems has been designed. Power requirements are met by two digital On/Off switches that set the amplifier in a standby state when not in use. It provides a stable ${\pm}180$ Volts output with a bandwidth of 7k Hz using a single 12 V battery. Additionally, both voltage and current outputs are provided for feedback control, impedance check, or actuator damage verification. Vibration control tests of an aluminum beam were conducted in the University of Houston lab, while wireless active SHM tests of a wind turbine blade were performed in the Harbin Institute of Technology wind tunnel. The results showed that the developed amplifier provided equivalent results to commercial solutions in suppressing structural vibrations, and that it allows researchers to perform active wireless SHM on moving objects with no power wires from the grid.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.122-127
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• 2003

In this paper, an adaptive predistortion scheme is proposed to compensate nonlinear distortions caused by high power amplifiers (HPA) in OFDM systems. A complex Wiener-Hammerstein model (WHM) is used to describe input-output relationship of HPA with linear dynamics. The predistorter is directly identified by complex power series model with memory, which is an approximate inverse of the HPA expressed by the WHM. The effectiveness of the proposed adaptive compensation scheme is validated by numerical simulation for 64QAM-OFDM systems.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.146-154
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• 2002

전력증폭기 포화영역가지의 선형화 방법을 제안한다. 최적화된 계수론 갖는 전치왜곡기 이득 다항식을 도입한다. 전력증폭기는 포화영역 근처에서 동작할 때 가장 높은 효율을 가진다. 이 전치왜곡기 이득 다항식을 이용하여 전력증폭기의 비선형성을 보상함으로써 증폭기의 효율을 극대화 할 수 있다. 씨뮬레이션 결과 ACPR (Adjacent Channel Power Ratio)이 대역 가장자리에서 약 63 dB 개선된다. 선형화기의 수렴 및 재수렴 특성 역시 만족스러운 성능을 보인다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.551-558
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• 2016

In multifiber all-optical networks, optical amplifiers are used for amplifying multiple optical signals with different wavelengths in fibers. An optical amplifier operates when any of lightpaths passes through it. Therefore, it should simultaneously amplify as many lightpaths as possible for efficiently utilizing its power. This paper proposes a dynamic lightpath establishment scheme considering the use efficiency of the optical amplifiers and the depletion of the wavelength resources in multifiber all-optical networks. The proposed scheme provides a routing and wavelength assignment strategy that reduces both the power consumption of the optical amplifiers and the blocking probability of the lightpath establishment. Through simulation experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.135-138
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• 1999

In this paper, we designed each matching networks by given input and output impedances of power amplifiers. Mearsured results for IMD and gain flatness are -30㏈c and $\pm$0.2㏈ with 38㏈m output power PEP of PTE10119 at 2.10-2.20㎓ and are -30㏈c and $\pm$0.4㏈ with 42㏈m output power PEP of MRF284 at same frequency range.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.111-117
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• 2003

We propose a diode-based RF pre-distorter with various gain and phase characteristics, for non-linearity compensation of RF power amplifiers. This pre-distorter results in the removal of the diode- and configuration-dependent characteristics in the conventional diode-based RF pre-distorters. We have analyzed the operation principle of the proposed pre-distorter. The results show that gain and phase characteristics of the pre-distorter in all four quadrants are achieved. Several power amplifiers and test signals are used for verifying the performance of the proposed diode-based RF pre-distorter.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.276-279
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• 2015

This paper presents two 3-stage D-band stacked amplifiers developed in a $0.13-{\mu}m$ SiGe BiCMOS technology, employed to compare the conventional cascode topology and the common-base (CB)/CB stacked topology. AMP1 employs two cascode stages followed by a CB/CB stacked stage, while AMP2 is composed of three CB/CB stacked stages. AMP1 showed a 17.1 dB peak gain at 143.8 GHz and a saturation output power of -4.2 dBm, while AMP2 showed a 20.4 dB peak gain at 150.6 GHz and a saturation output power of -1.3 dBm. The respective power dissipation was 42.9 mW and 59.4 mW for the two amplifiers. The results show that CB/CB stacked topology is favored over cascode topology in terms of gain near 140 GHz.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.947-954
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 하이브리드 커플러를 이용하여 구성하는 종래의 평형전력증폭기의 입력측 반사전력을 별도의 보조증폭기의 입력으로 활용하여 성능을 개선한 새로운 구조의 평형전력증폭기를 제안한다. 평형증폭기 내의 개별 단일 증폭기의 정합이 완벽하지 못하므로 여기에서 반사된 전력이 하이브리드 커플러의 격리단자에서 터미네이션 시키는 것이 종래의 구성이었다. 본 논문에서는 격리단자에 터미네이션 대신 보조증폭기를 연결하여 누설전력이 입력되고, 보조증폭기의 출력이 최종적인 평형증폭기의 출력에 더해지므로 출력전력과 효율이 개선된다. 제시한 구조를 검증하기 위하여 종래의 평형전력증폭기와 제안된 평형전력증폭기를 실제 제작하고 측정한 결과를 보인다. 제시한 평형전력증폭기는 종래의 평형전력증폭기보다 약 3dB의 출력전력특성, 5.2%의 전력부가효율, 그리고 $5{\sim}10\;dBc$의 IMB3 개선효과를 갖는다.