• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.135-140
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• 2019

In this paper, a frequency split type broadband drive amplifier operating in the L, S and C bands was designed and fabricated. Transistor is difficult to efficiently use when the fractional bandwidth of the drive amplifier is more than 100%, In particular, the characteristics of the driving amplifier are important for operating the power amplifier in which the characteristics of the output power and the efficiency are sensitively changed according to the frequency band. A frequency split methods was applied to maximize the bandwidth of a drive amplifier and to divide the output of the drive amplifier into low band and high band so that the transistor of the power amplifier located at the rear of the drive amplifier can be efficiently used. The designed drive amplifier was fabricated in GaAs HBT technology and 9-layer SiP, and verified by the measurements. The fabricated drive amplifier shows a gain of more than 8 dB and an output power of more than 15 dBm in the operating frequency range.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.221-233
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• 1997

무선통신 분야에서 다량의 정보전송과 CDMA, PCS 등의 상업화에 의해 광대역 고출력 증폭기의 요구가 증가하고 있다. 제품화된 파워 모듈에 비해 트랜지스터로 구성한 전력증폭기는 비용의 감소와 효율증대, 생산성 향상의 이점이 있다. 3단의 증폭기를 사용하여 VHF(148∼174㎒),UHF(440㎒∼470㎒)대역에서 5W이상의 전력과 45%이상의 효율을 얻었으며, 적정한 바이어스회로와 임피던스 정합회로망을 설계하여 제작, 실험함으로서 기존의 파워 모듈과 동일한 크기, 성능을 나타냈으며, 발진, 방열, 하모닉제거등 전력증폭기에서 요구하는 사항을 만족하였다. 또한 UHF트랜지스터를 사용하여 VHF의 증폭기를 임피던스 매칭을 이용하여 설계할 수 있음을 실험에 의하여 입증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.68-73
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• 2002

This paper presents the implementation of wide-band RFIC amplifier operating from near 50 MHz to 3 GHz using Tachyonics SiGe HBT foundry. Voltage shunt feedback is used for the flat gain and the broad band impedance matching. Initial design parameters are calculated through the low frequency small signal analysis. Since the HBT model was not available at the design time, discrete tuning board was made for fine adjustment in the low frequency range. Fabricated amplifier shows 12 dB gain with 1 dB fluctuation and P1 dB reaches 15 dBm at 850 MHz.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.839-843
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• 2005

In this paper, wish to improve reception performance of general receiver manufacturing maritime broadband reception amplifier that can thread easily in VHF transmit-receive equipment into downsize, light weight, low-coat. Manufactured reception amplifier expressed Characteristic that improve reception sensitive 3dBm in $140MHz\~170MHz$ frequency band. Therefore, may use communications equipment that utilize VHF wide-band more efficiently. Also, practical use degree is considered to be very high because telecommunication of good quality is available.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.1205-1214
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• 2013

Recently spaceborne SAR systems are increasing image resolution and frequency. As a high quality image resolution, the wider bandwidth is required and a wideband signal generator with RF component is very complicated and RF impairments of device is increased. Therefore, it is very important to improve performance by reducing these errors. In this study, the transmission signal of the wideband signal generator is applied to the phase noise, IQ imbalance, ripple gain, nonlinear model of high power amplifier. And we define possible structures of wideband signal generator and measure the PSLR and ISLR for the performance assesment. Also, we extract error of the amplitude and phase from the waveform and use a quadratic polynomial curve fitting and examine the performance change due to nonlinear device. Finally, we apply a high power amplifier predistortion method for non-linear error compensation. And we confirm that distortion in the output of the amplifier by intermodulation component is decreased by 15 dB.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.217-221
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• 2003

In this work, we used a novel RF-CSP to develop a broadband amplifier MMIC, including all the matching and biasing components, for Ku and K band applications. By utilizing an ACF for the RF-CSP, the fabrication process for the packaged amplifier MMIC could be simplified and made cost effective. STO (SrTiO$_3$) capacitors were employed to integrate the DC biasing components on the MMIC. A pre-matching technique was used for the gate input and drain output of the FETs to achieve a broadband design for the amplifier MMIC. The amplifier CSP MMIC exhibited good RF performance (Gain of 12.5$\pm$1.5 dB, return loss less than -6 dB, PldB of 18.5$\pm$1.5 dBm) over a wide frequency range. This work is the first report of a fully integrated CSP amplifier MMIC successfully operating in the Ku/K band.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.4B
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• pp.406-409
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 IMT-2000 대역에서 전방급전 전력증폭기의 선형성을 개선하여 효율과 대역폭을 극대화 하기 위해 Photonic Bandgap(PBG), 전치왜곡, 2차고조파 튜닝 방식으 f동시에 주 증폭기에 적용하였다. 2차 하모닉 성분이 2차고조파 튜닝 방식에 의해 우수하게 제거되고, 3차 하모닉 성분이 전치왜곡 방식에 의해 제거되며 출력단위 PBG느 s고아대역 특성으로 4차 하모닉 이상까지 제거하는 우수한 특성을 보여주었다. 총체적으로 기존의 전방급전 전력증폭기보다 IMD가 최고 15dBc, 효율은 4%, 대역폭은 2배이상 확대됨으로 전력효율과 대역폭을 극대화시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.185-190
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• 2007

In this paper, minimum sampling rates and method of nonlinear characterization were suggested for low power, quasi-memoryless PAs. So far, the Nyquist rate of the input signal has been used for nonlinear PA modeling, and it is burdening Analog-to-digital converters for wideband signals. This paper shows that the input Nyquist rate sampling is not a necessary condition for successful modeling of quasi-memoryless PAs. Since this sampling requirement relives the bandwidth requirements for Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for feedback paths in digital pre-distortion systems, relatively low-cost ADcs can be used to identify nonlinear PAs for wideband signal transmission, even at severe aliasing conditions. Simulation results show that a generic memoryless nonlinear RF power amplifier with AMAM and AMPM distortion can be successfully identified at any sampling rates. Measurement results show the modeling error variation is less than 0.8dB over any sampling rates.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.401-406
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• 2005

Digital memory circuits have been developed very fast according to the progress of semiconductor technology. But it was very difficult to memorize a wideband radio frequency signals. Many years ago, an analog frequency memory loop(FML) was used for store of radio frequency signal and the digital radio frequency memory was made according to the development of wideband amplifier and high speed sampler. We present a design of wideband digital radio frequency reproduction device using ladder circuit and the simulation results with respect to the sampling speed in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1990.06a
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• pp.504-507
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• 1990