• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.50-59
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• 2016

This work shows that the design and test results of a power amplifier(PA) with broadband and high linearity for 4G applications in $0.11{\mu}m$ CMOS process. A 1:2-transformer is designed for load impedance matching of PA and a inter-stage matching is implemented for a linearity. A designed PA achieves more than 27.3 dBm of linear output power and 26.1 % of power-added efficiency(PAE) under an adjacent channel leakage ratio(ACLR) of -30 dBc for a LTE 16-QAM 10 MHz signal with a carrier frequency range of 1.8 to 2.3 GHz.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.5007-5014
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• 2010

Recently n Korea, the House of Commons and terrestrial broadcasting facilities integrated with FM radio and the satellite compulsory was amended to transfer MATV(Master Antenna Television) adjusted by SMATV(Satellite Master Antenna Television). While the SMATV was accepted by default in most other countries, our county did not accept it as the default for broadcast. Because domestic cable and satellite television service providers are conflicts with their interest. bAs a result, the hybrid amplifier for SMATV technology development and volume production for the state is insufficient. Therefore, terrestrial television broadcast bands (54 ~ 806Mhz) and FM radio broadcast band (88 ~ 108Mhz) band satellite with (950 ~ 2150Mhz) to amplify the development of a broadband amplifier with subsequent resolution of problems is also presented in this study.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 GaN HEMT를 이용하여 Jamming용 System에 사용될 수 있는 고효율 및 고출력 특성을 가지는 광대역 Amplifier를 제작하였다. Jamming System에서 핵심이 되는 Amplifier는 넓은 범위의 주파수에서 통상적으로 사용되는 출력 신호에 비해 보다 높은 출력의 신호를 구현하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 GaN HEMT에 안정적인 전원 공급을 위한 음 전원 Bias 제어 회로와 Sequence 회로 및 온도에 따른 Gain 보상 회로를 구현하였으며, 500~2500MHz의 광대역에서 동작하면서 50W 이상의 출력을 낼 수 있도록 설계하였다. 출력 전력이 향상과 안정적인 동작을 위해 Main 출력 단은 60Watt 급의 GaN HEMT 소자와 광대역 Coupler를 이용하여 Balanced Structure로 설계하였다. 제작된 광대역 Amplifier는 30V 단일 전원에서 동작하도록 설계되었고, 크기는 140*90mm이다. 동작주파수 대역(500~2500MHz)에서 Small Signal Gain 63dB와 Gain Flatness ${\pm}$2dB, -10dB 이하의 Input Return Loss를 가진다. CW(Continuous Wave) Signal을 이용하여 측정하였으며, 50Watt 이상의 Saturation Power에서 최대 45%, 최소 28% 정도의 효율 특성을 보였다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.71-78
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• 2011

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a high efficiency and broad-band Class-J mode power amplifier using gallium nitride(GaN) high-electron mobility transistor(HEMT). The matching circuit of proposed class-J mode power amplifier for 2nd harmonic impedance designed to provide pure reactance alone. The measurement results show that output power of $40{\pm}1$ dBm, power-added efficiency of 50%, and drain efficiency of 60% for a continuous wave signal at 1.4 to 2.6 GHz.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.818-823
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• 2014

A high-gain wideband low noise amplifier (LNA) using $0.25-{\mu}m$ Gallium-Nitride (GaN) MMIC technology is presented. The LNA shows 8 GHz to 15 GHz operation by a distributed amplifier architecture and high gain with an additional common source amplifier as a mid-stage. The measurement results show a flat gain of $25.1{\pm}0.8dB$ and input and output matching of -12 dB for all targeted frequencies. The measured minimum noise figure is 2.8 dB at 12.6 GHz and below 3.6 dB across all frequencies. It consumes 98 mA with a 10-V supply. By adjusting the gate voltage of the mid-stage common source amplifier, the overall gain is controlled stably from 13 dB to 24 dB with no significant variations of the input and output matching.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.623-624
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• 2006

In this paper, we introduce the design and fabrication of V-band power amplifier MMIC with excellent gain-flatness for IEEE 802.15.3c WPAN system. The V-band power amplifier was designed using ETRI' $0.12{\mu}m$ PHEMT process. The PHEMT shows a peak transconductance ($G_{m,peak}$) of 500 mS/mm, a threshold voltage of -1.2 V, and a drain saturation current of 49 mA for 2 fingers and $100{\mu}m$ total gate width (2f100) at $V_{ds}$=2 V. The RF characteristics of the PHEMT show a cutoff frequency, $f_T$, of 97 GHz, and a maximum oscillation frequency, $f_{max}$, of 166 GHz. The gains of the each stages of the amplifier were modified to have broadband characteristics of input/output matching for first and fourth stages and get more gains of edge regions of operating frequency range for second and third stages in order to make the gain-flatness of the amplifier excellently for wide band. The performances of the fabricated 60 GHz power amplifier MMIC are operating frequency of $56.25{\sim}62.25\;GHz$, bandwidth of 6 GHz, small signal gain ($S_{21}$) of $16.5{\sim}17.2\;dB$, gain flatness of 0.7 dB, an input reflection coefficient ($S_{11}$) of $-16{\sim}-9\;dB$, output reflection coefficient ($S_{22}$) of $-16{\sim}-4\;dB$ and output power ($P_{out}$) of 13 dBm. The chip size of the amplifier MMIC was $3.7{\times}1.4mm^2$.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.241-247
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• 2016

This paper proposes the design and measurement of a 6-18 GHz front-end receiver module that has been combined into a one- channel output from a two-channel input for electronic warfare support measures (ESM) applications. This module includes a limiter, high-pass filter (HPF), power combiner, equalizer and amplifier. This paper focuses on the design aspects of reducing the noise figure (NF) and matching the phase and amplitude. The NF, linear equalizer, power divider, and HPF were considered in the design. A broadband receiver based on a combined configuration used to obtain low NF. We verify that our receiver module improves the noise figure by as much as 0.78 dB over measured data with a maximum of 5.54 dB over a 6-18 GHz bandwidth; the difference value of phase matching is within $7^{\circ}$ between ports.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.222-226
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• 2011

We demonstrated the feasibility of an amplified wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) architecture based on broadband light source (BLS) seeded optical sources and a novel bidirectional reach extender. Our bidirectional reach extender could provide an amplification of both downstream and upstream signals as well as a BLS output for the upstream WDM signal generation. An error-free 1.25 Gb/s signal transmission over a 100-km long single-mode fiber was achieved in a bidirectional WDM-PON using BLS seeded reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) sources.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.685-686
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• 2015

This paper describes design results of the measurement system to test the properties of broadband AC magnetic field sensors used in weapon system. This measurement system consists of 3-axis helmholtz coil, signal generator, signal amplifier, sensor data acquisition unit and measurement & analysis controller including the operating software. This system is able to measure various properties of AC magnetic field sensor such as sensitivity, linearity and dynamic response in the frequency of 1 Hz to 10 kHz. The performance of this system was verified by measuring and analyzing the property of a MAG 639, standard magnetic field sensor of bartington instruments, with this developed system.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.178-186
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• 2018

A chirp-echo data acquisition and processing system was developed for use as a simplified, PC-based chirp echo-sounder with some data processing software modules. The design of the software and hardware system was implemented via a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Digital signal processing algorithms for driving a single-channel chirp transmitter and dual-channel receivers with independent TVG (time varied gain) amplifier modules were incorporated into the FPGA for better real-time performance. The chirp-echo data acquisition and processing system consisted of a notebook PC, an FPGA board, and chirp sonar transmitter and receiver modules, which were constructed using three chirp transducers operating over a frequency range of 35-210 kHz. The functionality of this PC-based chirp echo-sounder was tested in various field experiments. The results of these experiments showed that the developed PC-based chirp echo-sounder could be used in the acquisition, processing and analysis of broadband acoustic echoes related to fish species identification.