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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2008.19.8.854

Highly Efficient High Power Hybrid EER Transmitter for IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX Application  

Kim, Il-Du (Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH))
Moon, Jung-Hwan (Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH))
Kim, Jang-Heon (Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH))
Kim, Jung-Joon (Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH))
Kim, Bum-Man (Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH))
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Abstract
We have described a high power hybrid envelope elimination and restoration(H-EER) transmitter for IEEE 802.16e Mobile World Interoperability for Microwave Access(WiMAX) using an efficiency optimized power amplifier(PA). The PA has been designed to have maximum PAE at the important power generation $V_{ds}$, region using Nitronex 100-W PEP GaN HEMT. For the high power application, H-EER transmitter should be considered the regenerative oscillation problem due to the PA's bias fluctuation effect and bias modulator stability issue. Therefore, the bias modulator for H-EER transmitter has been designed to suppress the regenerative oscillation. For the interlock experiment, the bias modulator has been built with the efficiency of 72% and peak output voltage of 30 V for the envelope signal with a PAPR of 8.5 dB. The H-EER transmitter for WiMAX application has been achieved a high PAE characteristic, 38.8 % at an output power of 41.25 dBm. By using digital predistortion(DPD) technique, the Relative Constellation Error (RCE) has been satisfied the specification of -34.5 dB. This is the first work at 2.655 GHz high power H-EER transmitter for WiMAX application.
Keywords
WiMAX; EER; Transmitter; Envelope Signal; GaN HEMT; DPD;
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