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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.11.2479

A Design for Solid-State Radar SSPA with Sequential Bias Circuits  

Koo, Ryung-Seo (Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.17, no.11, 2013 , pp. 2479-2485 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we present a design for solid-state radar SSPA with sequential bias. We apply to variable extension pulse generator to eliminate signal distortion which is caused by bias rising/falling delay of power amplifier. There is an optimum impedance matching circuit to have high efficiency of GaN-power device by measuring microwave characteristics through load-pull method. The designed SSPA is consisted of pre-amplifier, drive-amplifier and main-amplifier as a three stages to apply for X-Band solid-state radar. Thereby we made a 200W SSPA which has output pulse maximum power shows 53.67dBm and its average power is 52.85dBm. The optimum design of transceiver module for solid-state pulse compression radar which is presented in this dissertation, it can be available to miniaturize and to improve the radar performances through additional research for digital radar from now on.
Keywords
SSPA; Pulse compression; VEPG; Dynamic range;
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