• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.1053-1060
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• 2016

This paper proposes an adaptive equalizer with the digitally controlled active variable capacitor. An equalizing amplifier consists of a main amplifier and a source degeneration RC filter which is implemented using the digitally controlled active variable capacitor for area efficiency and linear loss compensation. The active capacitor changes its capacitance by the amplifier gain control, which is based on miller effect. In the simulated results, the proposed equalizer compensates the high frequency loss and extends the data eye width from 0.31 UI to 0.64 UI.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.221-226
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• 2012

In this paper, wideband two-stage amplification stage was designed, fabricated and evaluated. The proposed amplification stage with a novel gain control method have a high gain, low noise and high linearity performance. It is consisted of common emitter amplifier as the first stage, cascode gain control amplifier as second stage and power detector which sense the received signal strength. The proposed amplification stage shows a total gain of 29 dB~37 dB, noise fiugre of 1.5 dB at operating band and high linearity performance as the IMD (third intermodulation distortion) level is below the noise level of the measurement equipment at the control voltage 2.0 V generated from power detector under the strong electric field condition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.329-329
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• 2004

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.209-215
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• 2003

In this paper. We tested and fabricated the error amplifier for the 15 Watt linear power amplifier for the IMT-2000 baseband station. The error amplifier was comprised of subtractor for detecting intermodulation distortion, variable attenuator for control amplitude, variable phase shifter for control phase, low power amplifier and high power amplifier. This component was designed on the RO4350 substrate and integrated the aluminum case with active biasing circuit. For suppression of spurious, the through capacitance was used. The characteristics of error amplifier measured up to 45 dB gain, $\pm$0.66 dB gain flatness and -15 dB input return loss. Results of application to the 15 Watt feedforward Linear Power Amplifier, the error amplifier improved with 27 dB cancellation from 34 dBc to 61 dBc IM$_3$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.77-88
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• 2000

In this paper, the 3-mode variable gain high power amplifier for a transmitter of INMARSAT-B operating at L-band(1626.5-1646.5 MHz) was developed. This SSPA can amplify 42 dBm in high power mode, 38 dBm in medium power mode and 36 dBm in low power mode for INMARSAT-B. The allowable errol sets +1 dBm as the upper limit and -2 dBm as the lower limit, respectively. To simplify the fabrication process, the whole system is designed by two parts composed of a driving amplifier and a high power amplifier. The HP's MGA-64135 and Motorola's MRF-6401 were used for driving amplifier, and the ERICSSON's PTE-10114 and PTF-10021 for the high power amplifier. The SSPA was fabricated by the RP circuits, the temperature compensation circuits and 3-mode variable gain control circuits and 20 dB parallel coupled-line directional coupler in aluminum housing. In addition, the gain control method was proposed by digital attenuator for 3-mode amplifier. Then il has been experimentally verified that the gain is controlled for single tone signal as well as two tone signals. In this case, the SSPA detects the output power by 20 dB parallel coupled-line directional coupler and phase non-splitter amplifier. The realized SSPA has 41.6 dB, 37.6 dB and 33.2 dB for small signal gain within 20 MHz bandwidth, and the VSWR of input and output port is less than 1.3:1. The minimum value of the 1 dB compression point gets more than 12 dBm for 3-mode variable gain high power amplifier. A typical two tone intermodulation point has 36.5 dBc maximum which is single carrier backed off 3 dB from 1 dB compression point. The maximum output power of 43 dBm was achieved at the 1636.5 MHz. These results reveal a high power of 20 Watt, which was the design target.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.110-110
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• 2004

하나 또는 다수개의 압전액츄에이터(piezoelectric actuator)로 구성된 시스템에서 구동 효율을 높이는데 직접적인 영향을 미치는 고정밀과 빠른 응답 특성을 구현(implementation)하기 위하여, 입력전압에 대하여 출력전압이 선형적으로 추종하고 주파수 가변(variable)이 독립적이며 순차적으로 제어가 가능한 위상가변(phase shifting)형 압전액츄에이터 구동장치의 설계가 필요하다. 구동신호론 증폭하고 가변하는 고전압 증폭 구동장치는 압전액츄에이터 구동에 직접 영향을 주게 되므로, 이의 특성인 고주파에서의 위상지연 보상, 높은 회전비(slew rate)로 고전압에서 정현파의 찌그럼짐을 방지, 전압이득의 가변 및 안정화, 입력 및 출력 임피던스의 개선과 주파스 대역폭(band width)의 확장 등은 매우 중요하다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1676-1677
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• 2011

본논문에서는 300MHz~500MHz대역에서 -80dBm~-30dBm의 레벨로 발생하는 초고압 전력기기의 부분방전을 감지 할 수 있는 RF 모듈에 적용 가능한 LNA와 믹서를 설계하였다. 모니터링이 가능하도록 시스템 버짓을 실시하고, 설계된 부품들을 하나의 모듈로 합쳐 시뮬레이션 함으로써, 시스템의 목표에 맞게 설계 되었음을 확인하였다. LNA와 필터, 두단의 믹서를 통해 BPF로 가는 헤테로다인 방식을 사용하였으며 이중 설계된 가장 첫 단의 LNA와 주파수 합성 역할을 하는 첫 단 믹서를 다른 이상적인 소자들과 함께 시뮬레이션 하였으며, 그 결과 300MHz~500MHz대역에서 가변이득증폭기의 가변이득 폭이 14dB ~ 56dB까지 변할 때 출력신호가 20MHz에서 3 ~ 5dBm으로 일정하게 나오는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.49-57
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• 2007

Recently, CMOS RF integration has been widely explored in the wireless communication area to save cost, power, and chip area. The direct conversion architecture, rather than a more conventional super-het-erodyne, has been an attractive choice for single-chip integration because of its many advantages. However, the direct conversion architecture has several fundamental problems to solve in achieving performance comparable to a super-heterodyne counterpart. In this paper, we describe a programmable filter for mobile communication terminals using a direct conversion architecture. The proposed filter can be implemented with the active-RC filter and programmed to meet the requirements of different communication standards, including GSM, DECT and WCDMA. The filter can be tuned to select a detail frequency by changing the gate voltage of the MOS resistors. The gain of the proposed architecture can be programmed from 27dB to 72dB using the filter gain and VGA in 3dB steps.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1121-1129
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• 2009

In this paper, the UWB(Ultra-Wide Band) modules such as a pulse generator and the LNA(Low-Noise Amplifier) with AGC(Auto Gain Control) are designed to construct a cross-borehole pulse radar system, of which performance is compared with the existing system. The budget and specification of the radar system are determined by calculating the total path loss of the underground medium including an empty cavity. The pulse generator is fabricated to have the repeatation frequency 40 kHz, the pulse width lower than 5 ns and the peak signal level +73 dBm. The UWB LNA is designed to have the noise figure 3.77 dB, the variable gain range 100 dB and the frequency range of 20 MHz to 200 MHz. Compared with the existing system in an actual test site, the implemented system renders it possible to detect the blind area due to the UWB LNA with low noise figure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.656-661
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• 2002

Multipass Ti:sapphire amplifier for the light source of lidar was developed in an angular-multiplexing, and the characteristics of output energy and spectrum was investigated. In the two-stage multipass amplifier, we obtained the maximum output energy of 42 mJ, the amplification gain of 21 dB and the output efficiency of 26% on the wavelength of 790 nm. In the tuning range of 715~930nm the spectral linewidth is 0.05 $cm^{-1}$ /. The conversion efficiencies of 35% for SHG at 780 m and 13% for THG at 390 nm are obtained respectively. The continuous tunabilities of 240~306 m UV region and 360~460 nm in deep-blue region could be achieved.