• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06b
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• pp.181-184
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 600Hz 무선 LAN 시스템에 탑재를 위한 600㎓ 대역 전력증폭기 모듈을 개발 하였다. 600㎓ 대역 전력증폭기 모듈에 실장된 600㎓ 대역 전력증폭기 MMIC는 ETRI에서 설계 및 제작한 것으로 칩의 크기는 2.80 × 1.75㎟이며, on-wafer측정을 하여 얻은 결과는 동작 주파수 58~620Hz에서 소신호 이득은 12.4dB이고, 최대 소신호 이득은 59~60G보z에서 ISdB이며, 출력전력(Pldn)은 16.3~16.7dBm을 얻었다. 이와 같은 특성을 갖는 전력증폭기 MMIC를 사용하여 모듈을 제작하였으며, RF feed line을 위해 Rogers 사의 R03003 기판을 사용하였다. 모듈의 입출력은 동작 주파수 대역에 적합한 WRl5라는 waveguide 형태를 사용하였고, DC 바이어스 공급을 위해 3.5㎜ K-connector를 사용하였다 제작한 모듈의 크기는 40 × 30 × 15㎣이며, 최적의 성능을 얻고자 tuning bar를 상하로 이동하여 최적점을 찾았으며 나사로 고정하여 상태를 유지하도록 하였다. DC 바이어스 및 RF feed line과 칩의 연결은 본딩에 의한 인덕턴스를 최소화하기 위하여 3mil 두께의 리본 본딩을 하였다 전력증폭기 모듈을 측정한 결과, 동작주파수 600㎓ 대에서 소신호 이득은 6dB 이상, 입력 정합은 -lOdB 이하, 출력 정합은 -4dB 이하로 측정되었긴, 출력전력은 SdBm 이상으로 측정되었다. 동국대에서 제작한 600Hz 무선 LAN 시스템에 전력증폭기 모듈을 시스템 송신부에 탑재 시험한 결과, 동영상을 실시간으로 전송하는데 성공하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.107-114
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• 2020

A power amplifier of 2.4 GHz ISM band is designed to implement a transmitter system. High efficiency amplifiers can be implemented as class E or class F amplifiers. This study has designed a 20 W high efficiency class E amplifier that has simple circuit structure in order to utilize for the ISM band application. The impedance matching circuit was designed by class E design theory and circuit simulation. The designed amplifier has the output power of 44.2 dBm and the power added efficiency of 69% at 2.45 GHz. In order to apply 30 dBm input power to the designed power amplifier, voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and driving amplifier have been fabricated for the input feeding circuit. The measurement of the power amplifier shows 43.2 dBm output and 65% power added efficiency. This study can be applied to the design of power amplifiers for various wireless communication systems such as wireless power transfer, radio jamming device and high power transmitter.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.72-75
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• 2012

In this paper, high-efficiency DC-AC converter is implemented for the wireless power transmission. The DC-AC converter is implemented by combining the oscillator and power amplifier. Because the conversion efficiency of wireless power transmitter is strongly affected by the efficiency of power amplifier, the high-efficiency power amplifier is implemented by using the Class-E amplifier structure. Also, because the output power of oscillator connected to the input stage of power amplifier is low, high-gain two-stages power amplifier using the drive amplifier is implemented to realize the high-output power DC-AC converter. The dual band harmonic suppression filter is implemented to suppress 2nd, 3rd harmonics of 13.56 MHz. The output power and conversion efficiency of DC-AC converter are 40 dBm and 80.2 % at the operation frequency of 13.56 MHz.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.39-47
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• 2002

기존의 아날로그 통신 방법이 디지털 통신 시스템으로 바뀌면서 신호 전송방법에 많은 변화를 일으키고 있다. 특히 이동통신 기기 중에서 통신 품질과 장비의 효율을 결정하는 고출력 전력증폭기는 기존의 전력증폭기에 비하여 더욱더 많은 기술들이 요구되어지고 있다. 본 고에서는 이러한 고출력 증폭기의 고유한 특성들과 이를 보상할 수 있는 선형화기술들에 관하여 고찰하고 이러한 기술의 동향에 관하여 살펴보았다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.232-233
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• 2011

수중에서는 대기와는 달리 매질의 차이로 인하여 통신의 제약이 따르므로 초음파를 이용하여 정보를 송 수신한다. 수중통신을 하기 위해서는 초음파를 발생시키는 트랜스듀서와 신호를 증폭시키는 전력증폭기가 필요하다. 전력증폭기는 선형적인 출력이 보장되어야 하며, 수중에서의 연료문제로 인하여 높은 효율로 동작하여야한다. 하지만 출력의 선형성과 시스템의 효율은 Trade off의 관계이기 때문에 두 가지 모두를 만족시키는 연구가 요구된다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 Class B push-pull 증폭기를 사용하여 선형 출력 특성을 보장하며, 신호의 크기에 따라 증폭기의 인가전압을 가변하는 ET(Envelope Tracking) 기술을 적용하여 향상된 효율 특성을 갖는 넓은 대역폭의 전력증폭기를 설계하고 실험을 통해 특성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.65-68
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• 2004

The performances of millimeter wave Power amplifier have been improved by using PBG (photonic bandgap structure) in this paper. The PBG structure has been optimized to obtain the lowpass characteristics in Ka band and employed at output port of Ka band power amplifier. The harmonics of the power amplifier have been suppressed by the PBG of output port and the proposed PBG has suppressed the second harmonic to 40dBc around 50 GHz. The improvements of IMD and PAE of the amplifier employing the PBG structure are obtained $15\%$ and $25\%$, compared with those of the conventional Ka band power amplifier, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.947-954
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• 2009

This paper proposed a new balanced power amplifier using the reflected input of conventional balanced power amplifiers composed of branch line hybrid coupler. In general, the single-ended amplifier in balanced amplifiers does not have the perfect matching, so the reflected input power, in other words the leakage power, is terminated conventionally at the isolation port of hybrid coupler. However in this work, the leakage power is injected into the auxiliary amplifier, and its output power is combined to the output power of balanced amplifier. Therefore output power, efficiency, and 2-tone IMD3 performances of the proposed balanced amplifier are highly improved compared to the conventional balanced amplifier. For the verification of the proposed balanced amplifier, a conventional balanced amplifier and the proposed balanced amplifier are designed, fabricated and measured, and the measured results are compared. The proposed balanced amplifier shows the improvement in the output power(Pout), power added efficiency (PAE), and 2-tone IMD3 by 3dB, 5.2%, and $5{\sim}10dBc$, respectively, from the measurement.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.41-45
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• 2014

In this paper, a high-efficiency power amplifier is implemented by using a drain bias control circuit operated at low input power for WPT(Wireless Power Transfer). Adaptive bias control circuit was added to high-efficiency class-E amplifier. It was possible to obtain the overall improvement in efficiency by adjusting the drain bias at low input power. The proposed adaptive class-E amplifier is implemented by using the input and output matching network and serial resonant circuit for improvement in efficiency. Drain bias control circuit consists of a directional coupler, power detector, and operational amplifier for adjusting the drain bias according to the input power. The measured results show that output powers of 41.83 dBm were obtained at 13.56 MHz. At this frequency, we have obtained the power added efficiency(PAE) of 85.67 %. It was confirmed increase of PAE of an average of 8 % than the fixed bias from the low input power level of 0 dBm ~ 6 dBm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.6 s.121
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• pp.584-590
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• 2007

In this paper, the efficiency of power amplifier has been maximized by the application of EER structure, and the linearity has been improved by using PBG structure. This paper has proposed a design of power amplifier in class-F to get the PAE, and to control dynamic power using envelope detector. PBG structure gets high-linearity by removing harmonics arisen from the mismatching of matching circuit. The PAE and the 3rd order IMD have been improved 34.64%, 6.65 dB compared with those of conventional Doherty amplifier, respectively.

• 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.