• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.177-181
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• 2012

This paper introduces a thermal compensation circuit with improved compensation characteristic for amplifiers to provide stable output power regardless environmental temperature. The proposed thermal compensation circuit is composed of two branchline couplers having two diodes between them. And, the thermistor whose resistance varies significantly with temperature inversely and a operational amplifiers, so called as OP-amp, control the diodes in the compensations circuit to realize more effective thermal compendation characteristic compared with conventional circuit.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.1025-1033
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• 2002

This paper presents temperature-compensation circuits of Ku-band amplifiers for satellite payload. After carefully investigating design specifications of Ku-band amplifiers for satellite payload, we designed three types or temperature-compensation circuits, which are an active bias circuit, an attenuator control, and an ALC loop circuit. Our design technique demonstrates good agreement between measured and predicted results. These temperature-compensation circuits are suitable for Ku-band satellite payload active components, such as channel amplifiers, LNA and IF amplifiers.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.484-491
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• 2002

This paper presents the results of a study of voltage-controlled PIN diode attenuators for Ku-band satellite payload and suggests the temperature-compensation method of these attenuators. The PIN diode attenuators are designed using thin-film hybrid techniques. The load resistance for maximum linear characteristics is determined by simulation and measurements. In the case of APD0805, load resistance of 150 $\Omega$ gives attenuator up to 10 dB linear attenuation range per a PIN diode. Also, measurements over temperature of these PIN diode attenuators were performed. From these measurements, designed PIN diode attenuators shows the severe temperature dependency due to forward voltage variation. A temperature compensation method using thermistor is now suggested to compensate the temperature variation of these PIN diode attenuators. This circuit shows good linear characteristics over wide temperature range

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.223-228
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• 2010

In this paper, temperature compensation circuit for the X-band voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) is presented by using the temperature sensor with the OP-AMP circuit. The frequency drifting by the temperature could be compensated by applying the tuning voltage which include the linearly changing output voltage of the temperature sensor. As a result, the frequency variation is reduced to 6.6~4.4 MHzfrom the 71~73 MHz variation with the compensation circuit over -30~+$60^{\circ}C$ range, when VCO is operated in the frequency range of 9.95~10.05 GHz.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.28-33
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• 1967

The analysis of differential amplifier is simplified by the extention of bisection theorem. In order to reduce the thermal and porwor drifts, a self compensating circuit is employed. The optimum conditions of the self compensating circuit are: the base-emitter voltage of one transistor should be equal to the other's base-emitter voltage for basic self compensating circuit, the tempereature coefficients of base-emitter voltage of one transistor equal to the others for thermal compensation. By regarding the thermal and power drifts the experiments were performed were performed and the numerical results were consistent with the measured values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.673-675
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• 2011

본 논문은 GHz 대역 소자 응용을 위한 프로그램 가능 보상 회로를 제안한다. 이러한 회로는 5.2GHz대에서 동작하는 고주파 회로의 칩 제작과정에서 예기치 않게 발생한 미세한 PVT (공정, 전압, 온도) 변동을 검출하여 미세 변동된 회로 성능 변수들을 자동으로 보상한다. 자동으로 보상 가능한 고주파 회로 성능 변수들은 중요한 요소인 입력 임피던스, 전압이득과 잡음지수를 포함한다. 이러한 회로는 미세 변동을 자동으로 보상할 수 있도록 고주파 신호를 직류 신호로 변환하는 DFT (Design-for-Testability) 회로를 포함한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1386-1391
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• 2000

In this paper, the method to linearize the non-linearity of diode and to compensate the characteristics change of diode with the temperature is studied. Square root circuit is used to linearize the non-linearity of diode about the input power, and two identical diodes and OP-Amps, which have variable reference, are used to compensate the characteristic change of diode with the temperature. As the result, designed diode power detector (with the square root circuit and temperature compensation circuit) can detect the output power linearly with the 0.23 $\pm$0.025V/dBm rate in the case the input power is greater than -6 dBm, and the designed circuit operates stably with no variation in the output data about the temperature change from the room temperature to 8$0^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.2609-2614
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• 2010

Temperature compensation circuit is implemented by using the temperature sensor, and Intermodulation (IM) Specification of Power Amplifier is satisfied in the temperature range of $-30^{\circ}C{\sim}60^{\circ}C$ with this temperature compensation circuit. The output voltage of temperature compensation circuit which vary 170mV with the temperature is applied to the gate of TR in 3W output power Amplifier. As the result, right 3rd IM component is -18.5~-26dBm, left 3rd IM component is -18.5~-35dBm, and the left and right 5th IM component is -24~-26dBm in the temperature range of $-30^{\circ}C{\sim}60^{\circ}C$. It is confirmed that IM specification of power amplifier which is under -17dBm in the whole temperature range is satisfied.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.31 no.1C
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• pp.29-38
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• 2011

The smaller diameter cone penetrometer has been widely used to estimate the characteristics of local area due to high vertical resolution. The half-bridge cirucits have been adopted to measure the mechnical strength of soil through the smaller diameter cone penetrometer due to the limitation of the areas for configuring the full-bridge circuit. The half-bridge circuit, however, is known as being easily affected to the temperature variation. The objective of this study suggests the temperature-compensated method in mini-cones. The diameter and length of the mini-cone is designed to 15mm and 56mm. The load cell of the mini-cone is extended about 54mm on the behind of the mini-cone to reflect the only temperature variation. The full-bridge circuit is installed to measure the temperature-compensated values in the mini-cone and the half-bridge circuit is also organized to compare the temperature compensated values with uncompensated values. The seasonal variation tests are performed to define the effect of temperature variation under summer and winter temperature condition. The densification tests are also carried out to investigate temperature effects during penetration. The measured mechanical resistances with temperature-compensated method show more reliable and reasonable values than those measured by thermal uncompensated system. This study suggests that the temperature-compensated method of the mini-cone may be a useful technique to obtain the more reliable resistances with minimizing the temperature effect.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.293-296
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• 2009

In order to protect the electrical fire, AFCI(Arc Fault Cirruit Interrupter) was obligated to adopted in United States of America since 2002. AFCI using by line resistor of neutral trace needs to compensate the resistance variation of the line resistor by temperature variation. In this paper, the ASIC including the temperature compensation circuit is implemented. The successful implementation is verified by showing the effectiveness of an electric and a temperature characteristics for ARC signals by simulation results.