• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.23-26
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• 2004

본 논문은 전력증폭기의 효율을 개선하기 위한 도허티증폭기의 특성 분석에 관한 것이다. 도허티증폭기의 특성을 분석하기 위해 2-tone신호와 WCDMA신호를 사용하였고 180W PEP LDMOSFET을 사용하였다. 제작된 도허티증폭기는 출력 전력 20W에서 약 10%정도의 효율개선을 나타냈지만 선형성이 저하되는 특성을 나타내었다. 저하된 선형성을 개선시키기 위해 carrier 증폭기(Amp. A)와 peaking 증폭기(Amp. B)를 각각 변화하였으며, carrier 증폭기는 높은 PEP(Peak Envelope Power)와 적은 Id(drain current)가 되도록 하였고, peaking 증폭기는 높은 이득과, 낮은 gate bias에서 IMD(Intermodulation Distortion)가 상쇄되도록 하였다. 최종 측정 결과 출력전력 20W에서 선형성은 class AB증폭기와 비교하여 유사한 결과를 얻었으며, 효율은 약 10% 이상의 개선을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.62-66
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• 2006

본 논문은 도허티 증폭기 및 포락선 전치 왜곡기를 이용한 전력 증폭기의 효율 및 선형성 개선에 관한 것이다. 전력 증폭기의 효율을 개선하기 위하여 도허티 증폭기를 제작하여 효율 특성을 개선하였으며, 포락선 전치 왜곡기를 이용하여 도허티 증폭기의 선형성 개선량에 대하여 조사하였다. 제작된 도허티 증폭기는 AB 급으로 동작시킨 전력 증폭기와 비교하여 출력 전력 10W에서 8.5%의 효율 개선 효과를 보였으며, 출력 전력 40W에서 12.6%의 효율 개선 특성을 나타내었다. 포락선 전치 왜곡기를 이용한도 허티 증폭기는 출력 전력 10W에서 7dB의 선 형성 개선 효과를 나타내었다. IMT-2000 주파수 대역에서 WCDMA down-link 4 carrier 신호를 이용하여 출력 전력 10W에서 측정한 결과 AB 급으로 동작하는 전력 증폭기와 비교하여 4.2%의 효율 개선 및 6.3dB의 선형성 개선 효과를 나타내었다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.30 no.5 s.111
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• pp.351-356
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• 2006

In this paper, the high efficiency Doherty power amplifier has been designed and realized for microwave applications. The Doherty amplifier has been implemented using silicon MRF 281 LDMOS FET. The RF performances cf the Doherty power amplifier (a combination of a class AB carrier amplifier and a bias-tuned class C peaking amplifier) have been compared with those of a class AB amplifier alone. The realized Doherty power amplifier P1dB output power has 33dBm at 2.3GHz frequency. Also the Doherty power amplifier shows 11dB gain and -17.8dB input return loss at 2.3GHz to 2.4GHz. The designed Doherty amplifier has been improved the average PAE by 10% higher efficiency than a class AB amplifier alone. The Maximum PAE of designed Doherty power amplifier has been 39%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.91-96
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• 2006

In this paper, the high efficiency Doherty power amplifier has been designed and realized for microwave applications. The Doherty amplifier has been implemented using silicon MRF 281 LOMOS FET. The RF performances of the Doherty power amplifier (a combination of a class AB carrier amplifier and a bias..tuned class C peaking amplifier) have been compared with those of a class AB amplifier alone. The realized Doherty power amplifier PldB output power has 33dBm at 2.3GHz frequency. Also the Doherty power amplifier shows 11dB gain and -17.8dB input return loss at 2.3GHz to 2.4GHz. The designed Doherty amplifier has been improved the average PAE by 10% higher efficiency than a class AB amplifier alone. The Maximum PAE of designed Doherty power amplifier has been 39%.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.99-104
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• 2011

This paper presents a high power and high efficiency unbalanced Doherty power amplifier used to extend the output power back-off (OPBO). The proposed unbalanced amplifier uses the same type of transistors in both the main amplifier and the peaking amplifier, similar to a conventional symmetric Doherty amplifier. The unbalanced amplifier can have the impedance of a ${\lambda}/4$ transformer located at the output of the main amplifier modified. This enables the OPBO to exceed 6 dB, the maximum OPBO for a conventional symmetric Doherty amplifier. The efficiency and linearity performance of the unbalanced Doherty amplifier are almost same as those found for the asymmetric Doherty amplifier, even though the unbalanced Doherty amplifier structure is simpler than the asymmetric Doherty structure. In order to verify the proposed amplifier performance, a 46 W Doherty amplifier has been both simulated and measured using a CDMA2000 1FA signal. From the measured results, the proposed unbalanced Doherty amplifier achieved an added power efficiency of 38 % and an adjacent channel power ratio of -34 dBc at a 885 kHz offset frequency and -35.6 dBc at a 1.98 MHz offset frequency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.107-111
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• 2009

In this paper, the power added efficiency(PAE) of a Doherty amplifier has been improved by applying Photonic Bandgap(PBG) characteristics on the output of amplifier. As a result of the high order harmonics termination, excellent improvement in PAE, maximum output power as well as linearity is obtained. The PAE is improved as much as relatively 35% compared with a conventional Doherty amplifier. Moreover, size of LPF is reduced by PBG characteristics. Therefore the whole amplifier circuit size is considerably reduced by diminishing in size of the LPF as compared with a Doherty amplifier using conventional LPFs.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.51-58
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• 2004

Push-pull structure with balun transformer is presented for load modulation technique which improves the overall efficiency of power amplifier Under the assumption that output impedance of fumed-off amplifier is high, conventional Doherty amplifier is composed of impedance inverter and peaking amplifier, of which operation is controlled by the input power level. In many case, however, impedance of 'off'amplifier is very low due to matching network or parasitic output capacitance. This paper introduces novel load modulation technique which uses low output impedance of 'off'amplifier. Experimental results show that good linearity and efficient!'enhancement of the proposed push-pull structure

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.422-427
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• 2005

In this paper, Doherty amplifier is designed by the need of improving the linearity and efficiency of wireless network and repeater for WCDMA. It is designed to maintain the high linearity and efficiency at the low efficiency period of the power amplifier after analyzing Doherty technique using the active load-pull in condition of the high efficiency power amplifier implementation according to the variation of input power. CW 1-tone experimental results at the WCDMA frequency 2.11$\~$2.17 CHz shows that Doherty amplifier, which achieves pore. add efficiency(PAE) 50$\%$ at 6dB back off the point from maximum output power 52.3dBm, obtains higher efficiency of 13.3$\%$ than class AB. finding optimum bias point after adjusted gate voltage, Doherty amplifier shows that IMD3 improves 4dB.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1847-1853
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• 2014

The PAPR of the input signal is increased due to OFDMA signal in a mobile communication system. High efficiency of a power amplifier, which accounts for power consumption, is a very important key technology. Digital Pre-Distortion techniques were used to improve the linearity of the power amplifier. The Asymmetric Doherty scheme was used to improve the efficiency of the power amplifier. In this paper, we propose a new structure of Asymmetric Doherty. Drive power amplifier part is separated as main path and peak path, and phase shifter is employed to improve power combine characteristics of the Doherty Amplifier. Also, envelope tracking technology for drive gate bais in drive peak amplifier is used to improve efficiency.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.164-169
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• 2005

In this paper, the high efficiency Doherty power amplifier using adaptive bias technique has been designed and realized for 2.3GHz Wibro applications. The RF performances of the Doherty power amplifier using adaptive bias technique have been compared with those of a class AB amplifier alone, and conventional Doherty amplifier. The Maximum PAE of designed Doherty power amplifier with adaptive bias technique has been 36.6% at 34.0dBm output power. The proposed Doherty power amplifier showed an improvement 1dB at output power and 7.6% PAE than a class AB amplifier alone.