• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.479-486
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• 1999

In this paper the system performance degradation resulting from nonlinear transmitter power amplifier which is essential to increase the efficiency is analyzed in a forward link CDMA system. The power amplifier is modeled by power series model which includes only odd-order terms. The effects of power amplifier's nonlinearity such as intersymbol interference, phase distortion on the RF system performance were visualized by examining the distorted time domain waveforms, signal vector constellation. And through the investigation of the power spectrum density of the transmitted signal, spectral regrowth or sideband regrowth which is result from amplitude distortion can be seen. All these characteristics result in BER performance degradation due to other user interferences and intersymbol interference. The analysis technique described here applies not only to power amplifier but also to any other nonlinear components such as mixers and switches. Also the effects of adjacent channel interference and supurious emission can be analysed between different systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.681-684
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• 2015

Power amplifier is an essential component for transmitting signals to a remote receiver in wireless communication systems. Power amplifier is a non-linear device in general, and the nonlinear distortion becomes severer as the output power increases. The nonlinearity results in spectral regrowth, which leads to adjacent channel interference, and decreases the transmit signal quality. To linearize power amplifiers, many techniques have been developed so far. Among the techniques, digital pre-distortion is known as the most cost and performance effective technique. However, the linearization performance falls down abruptly when the power amplifier operates in its saturation region. This is because of the severe nonlinearity. To relieve this problem, this paper proposes a new adaptive predistortion technique. The proposed technique controls the adaptive algorithm based on the power amplifier input level. Specifically, for small signals, the adaptive predistortion algorithm works normally. On the contrary, for large signals, the adaptive algorithm stops until small signals occur again. By doing this, wrong coefficient update by severe nonlinearity can be avoided. Computer simulation results show that the proposed method can improve the linearization performance compared with the conventional digital predistortion algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.383-388
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• 1998

이동통신에서, 신호의 페이딩을 보상하기 위하여 pilot symbol assisted modulation(PSAM)에 대한 많은 연구가 진행 되어왔다. 본 논문에서는 최대비합성다이버시티를 사용하는 PSA-QAM에서 전력증폭기 비선형성의 효과를 분석하였다. 먼저, PSAM성능의 한계를 구하기 위하여, 페이딩에 대한 완벽한 정보가 주어진 상태에서 최대비합성다이버시티를 갖는 QAM의 이론적 성능을 분석하였다. 실제 PSAM에서, 페이딩에 대한 정보는 파일럿 심볼의 보간에 의하여 얻어진다. 오차의 평균전력을 최소화하는 보간필터를 사용하여 필터의 탭수, 파일럿 심볼프레임 주기, 도플러 주파수가 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 비선형 전력증폭기 AB, B, C급의 AM/AM, AM/PM 특성을 성능분석에 고려하였다. 비선형 보상기술인 Cartesian Feedback Loop (CFB) 이용하여 AWGN 채널과 Rayleigh 페이딩 채널에서 비선형 전력증폭기 종류에 따른 성능변화를 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.276-283
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• 2003

In this paper, a 2-stage power amplifier(PA) for IMT-2000 handset has been designed and fabricated using SiGe HBT, which has excellent frequency characteristics and linearity, to reduce size and weight instead of existing linearization techniques. DC I-V characteristics and S-parameter of SiGe HBT were simulated by Agilent circuit simulator(ADS), with large signal Gummel-Poon nonlinear circuit model. Then the output and interstage matching circuits were designed to satisfy the high power condition and the high gain condition, respectively. The experimental results showed output power of 27.1dBm and ACLR of 20dB, PAE of 34%, and linear power gain of 18.9dB over frequency ranges from 1920MHz to 1980MHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.7A
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• pp.557-567
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• 2005

We evaluate the BER performance of OFDMA system for Wibro services in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel, considering the carrier frequency offset and the nonlinear high power amplifier. In the uplink OFDMA, nonlinear amplifier and frequency offset introduce larger BER degradation than in the downlink. We explain the reason and obtain the required output back-off of the nonlinear amplifier and value of frequency offset for good BER performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.1612-1620
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• 2003

This papers describes a nonlinear transfer function modelling of designed GaAs FET power amplifier by measured and simulated values of designed PA amplifier for multi­carrier transmission system, With the results of PA nonlinearity characteristic, we can estimates AM­AM and AM­PM of designed PA. According to the estimated nonlinear characteristics, we can analysis the ACPR of PA for spectral regrowth, the error vector measurement(EVM) of constallation signals and bit error rate of QPSK and 64­QAM. The suggested nonlinear modelling results are used to get an accurate estimate of digital characteristics between PA amplifier and wireless multi­carrier transmission system using OFDM.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.81-86
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• 2007

In this paper, the Power Added Efficiency (PAE) and linearity of class-F PA has been improved by using the PBG structure and the application of EER structure, simultaneously. The adaptive bias control circuit has been employed to improve the PAE through the application of EER structure. The PBG structure has been adapted for improving the Linearity by suppressing the harmonics on the output of amplifier. The PAE and the 3rd Inter-Modulation Distortion (IMD) has improved 34.56%, 10.66 dB, compared with those of the conventional Doherty amplifier, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.157-159
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 무선 전력 송신용 2400MHz 전력증폭기 설계에 대하여 기술한다. 비선형 설계 방법을 이용하여 먼저 1단 전력증폭기 모듈을 설계하였고, 이에 대한 측정을 통하여 전기적 특성을 확보한 후에 선형성에 대한 고려의 결과로써 3개의 모듈을 직렬 연결하여 3단 전력증폭기를 구성하였다. 제작된 전력증폭기는 선형적 동작 구간에서 25dB 이상의 높은 이득과 1Watt 근처의 출력특성을 보였는데, 30dBm의 출력전력에서 23%의 효율 특성을 나타내었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.3C
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• pp.234-240
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• 2002

A power amplifier with AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs HBT's has been developed for customer premise equipments of the quasi millimeter-wave frequency-band broadband wireless local loop(BWLL) system. Parameters of the linear and nonlinear equivalent circuits for a common base HBT have been extracted by a fitting method. The amplifier has been designed through the linear and nonlinear circuit simulations and fabricated on a ceramic substrate for a hybrid IC. The amplifier has produced a 25.5-dBm output power with 35% power-added efficiency(PAE) at 24.4 GHz and achieved a 7.5-dB linear power gain at 24.8 GHz. In 24.25 ∼24.75 GHz band, the amplifier has exhibited a saturated output over larger than 22 dBm and PAE higher than 25%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.531-538
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• 1998

In this paper the system performance degradation resulting from nonlinear transmitter power amplifier which is essential to increase the efficiency is analysed in a CDMA system. The power amplifier is modeled by its AM-AM, AM-PM characteristics. The effects of power amplifier's nonlinearity such as intersymbol interference, phase distonion on the RF system performance were visualized by examining the distorted time domain waveforms, signal vector constellation. And through the investigation of the power spectrum density of the transmitted signal, spectral regrowth or sideband regrowth which is result from amplitude distortion can be seen. All these characteristics result in BER performance degradation due to other user interferences and intersymbol interference. The analysis technique described here applies not only to power amplifier but also to any other nonlinear components such as mixers and switches. Also the effects of adjacent channel interference and supurious emission can be analysed between different systems.