• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.1313-1321
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• 2008

outphasing class-E power amplifier using composite right/left-handed transmission lines(CRLH-TL) is proposed at 2.4 GHz. The power combiner including CRLH-TL is designed to suppress the second and third harmonics to increase linearity and the output problem of the conventional outphasing amplifier is also solved by the proposed outphasing amplifier. So the P AE is improved. The measured maximum output power at the fundamental frequency shows 31.8 dBm, whereas the PAE shows 50 % with 14 dBm input power excited. The IMD3 is improved by 5 dB compared to that of conventional outphasing amplifier.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.14-17
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• 2008

This paper describes the simulation of a phase splitter for the design of Chireix Outphasing power amplifier. Phase splitter separate the input signal with $0[^{\circ}]$ into the signal with $+90[^{\circ}]$ and $-90[^{\circ}]$ Chireix Outphasing power amplifier get a linearized output from the signal amplifying and combining the separated signal with the phase of $+90[^{\circ}]$ and $-90[^{\circ}]$ of the phase splitter. phase splitter is the core device when designing Chireix Outphasing power amplifier. It is very difficult to design phase splitter with the difference of $90[^{\circ}]$. This phase splitter is used to design the difference of $180[^{\circ}]((90[^{\circ}]+{\alpha}),\;-(90[^{\circ}])+{\alpha}))$ using simulation tool and a differential amplifier.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.247-255
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• 2011

This paper describes a CMOS outphasing transmitter using two wideband phase modulators. The proposed architecture can simplify the overall outphasing transmitter architecture using two-point phase modulation in phase-locked loop, which eliminates the necessity digital-to-analog converters, filters, and mixers. This architecture is verified with a WCDMA signal at 1.65 GHz. The prototype is fabricated in standard 130 nm CMOS technology. The measurement results satisfied the spectrum mask and 4.9% EVM performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.857-864
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• 2010

In this paper, we analyse the effect of the path imbalances(gain and phase mismatches) in LINC(LInear amplification with Nonlinear Component) system, and propose a simple scheme using LUTs(Look Up Table) to compensate the path imbalances. The EVM(Error Vector Magnitude) and ACPR(Adjacent Channel Power Ratio) of the LINC system are degraded significantly by the path imbalances because it adopts an outphasing technique. The EVM and ACPR are theoretically extracted for two variables(gain and phase mismatch factors) and 2-D LUTs for those are generated based on the analysis. The efficient and simple compensation scheme for the path imbalances is proposed using the 2-D LUTs. A LINC system with the suggested compensation scheme is implemented, and the proposed method is verified with an experiment. A 16-QAM signal with 1.5 MHz bandwidth is used. Before the compensation, the path gain ratio was 95 % and phase error was $19.33^{\circ}$. The proposed scheme adjusts those values with 99 % and $0.5^{\circ}$, and improves ACPR about 18.1 dB.