• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10B
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• pp.1475-1481
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• 2001

무선 통신을 위한 전력 증폭기를 0.25$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS 공정으로 구현하였다. 전력 효율을 증가시키기 위하여 class-E 구조를 사용하여 soft-switching 특성을 활용하였다. Class-E 부하 회로의 DC-feed 인덕터는 유한한 값을 갖도록 하여 RF-choke을 사용하는 경우에 비해 동일한 전력과 공급 전압에 대해 필요로 하는 부하 저항의 크기를 증가시킴으로써 전력 효율을 더욱 증가시킬 수 있었다. 또한 common-gate switching 방법을 사용하여 기존의 switching 방법에 비해 허용되는 공급 전압의 크기를 두배 정도 증가시킬 수 있도록 하였다. 이러한 기법을 사용함으로써 900MHz의 주파수에서 공급 전압이 1.8V일 때 트랜지스터에 아무런 전압 stress를 가하지 않고 0.9W의 전력을 41%의 효율(power added efficiency, PAE)을 가지면서 50Ω 부하에 전달함을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.269-271
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• 2003

초고주파/밀리미터파 대역에서 전력증폭기의 효율을 향상시키기 위해 MEMS 튜닝회로를 설계하였다. MEMS 튜닝회로의 효과를 확인하기 위해 2차 및 3차 고조파를 억제할 수 있도록 3-stub Class-E 증폭기를 설계하였으며 또한 설계된 증폭기에 대해 시뮬레이션을 실시하였다. 시뮬레이션의 결과로서 8GHz에서 14dBm입력에 대해 MEMS가 적용된 증폭기의 성능은 PAE=66 9%, drain efficiency=75.89%, 그리고 출력 P=23.37 dBm을 얻었다. 또한 FET의 기생리액턴스의 변화에 대해서 MEMS 튜닝회로의 효율증대효과를 확인하였다. 결론적으로 이 연구에서 제안된 새로운 방법을 통해 증폭기의 효율향상을 위한 효과적인 방법이 될 수 있음 보여 주었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.813-822
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• 2009

We have investigated operation of a 1:2:2 asymmetric 3-stage Doherty PA(Power Amplifier) and implemented using the Freescale's 4 W, 10 W PEP LDMOSFETS at 1 GHz. By employing the three peak efficiency characteristics, compared to the two peak N-way Doherty PA, the asymmetric 3-stage Doherty can overcome the serious efficiency degradation along the backed-off output power region and maximize the average efficiency for the modulation signal. To maximize the efficiency characteristic, the inverse class F PA has been designed as carrier and peaking amplifiers. Furthermore, to extract the proper load modulation operation, the adaptive gate bias control signal has been applied to the two peaking PAs based on the envelope tracking technique. For the 802.16e Mobile WiMAX(World Interoperability for Microwave Access) signal with 8.5 dB PAPR(Peak to Average Power Ratio), the proposed Doherty PA has shown 55.46 % of high efficiency at an average output power of 36.85 dBm while maintaining the -37.23 dB of excellent RCE(Relative Constellation Error) characteristic. This is the first time demonstration of applying the saturated PA and adaptive gate bias control technique to the asymmetric 3-stage Doherty PA for the highly efficient transmitter of the base-station application.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.132-139
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• 1984

This paper presents an exant analysis of the class E tuned power amplifier with a shunt inductor. The following performance parameters are determined for optimum operation with any switch duty ratio: the collector current and voltage waveforms, the peak values of collector current and voltage, the output power, the power output capability, and the values of the load network elements. The analysis shows that the maximum power output capability occurs at a duty ratio of 50 percent. The measured collector efficiency of experiments is 93 percent with 0.93W at 1MHz. This amplifier is especially applicable at portable transmitters because its colletor efficiency is extremely high.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.521-524
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• 2015

This letter presents a selective wireless power transfer architecture using a reconfigurable multi-port amplifier. The proposed wireless power transfer architecture is composed of a phase shifter part controlled by FPGA, two class-E power amplifiers, a four-port power combiner and two coil loads. Depending on the phase control of FPGA, the power ratio of outputs at the two coil loads becomes 1:1, 2:0 and 0:2. The manufactured system has delivered 1W DC power to loads at 125 kHz. The total DC-to-DC conversion efficiency shows more than 40 % including PA efficiency of 79 %.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.9
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• pp.883-891
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• 2013

In wireless smart phone charging scenario, the transmitter pad is larger than the size of the receiver pad. Thus, it is important to supply a constant power to the receiver regardless of its location. In this paper, we propose a new method to regulate the receiver's power by adjusting a drain bias of class E power amplifier. The proposed LF-band wireless power transfer system is as follows: a buck converter power supply which is controlled by a pulse width modulation(PWM) IC TL494, a class E amplifier using a low cost IRF510 power MOSFET, a transmitter coil whose dimension is $16cm{\times}18cm$, a receiver coil whose dimension is $6cm{\times}8cm$, and a full bridge rectifier using Schottky diodes. A measured performance show a maximum output power of 4 W and system efficiency of 67 % if we fix the bias voltage. If we adjust the bias voltage, the received power can be maintained at a constant power of 2 W regardless of receiver pad location.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.935-940
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• 2016

Recently, wireless power transmission system is gradually extended to technology in various fields such as lighting field, electric vehicles and smartphones wireless charging system. The largest of the two elements for high transmission efficiency of the wireless power transmission system are resonant coils and power amplifiers. In this paper, in order to build a high efficient wireless power transmission system, we introduce the resonance coil manufacturing method and high efficiency power amplifier design method that operates at 6.78MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.118-121
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• 2003

A new approach, using MEMS, for improving the performance of high efficiency amplifiers is proposed in this paper. The MEMS tuning element is described as a variable-length shorted CPW stub. Class-E amplifiers can be optimally tuned by these MEMS tuning elements because their operation varies with the impedance of the output tuning circuit. A MEMS tuning element was simulated using full-wave EM simulators to obtain its S-parameters. A Class-E amplifier with the MEMS was designed at 8GHz. The non-linear operation of this amplifier was simulated to explore the effect of the MEMS tuning. Comparing the initially designed amplifier without MEMS, the Power Added Efficiency (PAE) of the amplifier with MEMS is improved from 46.3% to 66.9%. For the amplifier with MEMS, the nonlinear simulation results are PAE = 66.90%, $\eta$(drain efficiency) = 75.89%, and $P_{out}$ = 23.37 dBm at 8 GHz. In this paper, the concept of the MEMS tuning element is successfully applied to the Class E amplifier designed with transmission lines.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.173-174
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• 2013

전기장만으로 에너지를 전송하는 전계결합형 비접촉 충전기술은 송수신부를 매개하는 AC링크를 구성하는 전극쌍의 정전용량확보에 한계가 있으므로, 이를 잘 활용하기 위한 송수신회로가 요구된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이를 감안하여 전계결합형 에너지전송에 적합한 매칭변압기를 사용한 E급 송수신회로 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 구조에서 AC-링크 캐패시터의 낮은 정전용량을 감안한 최적 설계방식을 제안하고 회로설계에 따른 성능을 모의실험을 통해 예측한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.113-117
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• 2003

This paper describes the design and the simulation results of the RF CMOS Class-E Power Amplifier for a 2.4GHz ISM band. This circuit is composed two connected amplifiers. where Class F amplifier drives Class E amplifier. The proposed circuit can reduce the total power dissipation of the driving stage and can work with higher efficiency. The power amplifier has been implemented in a standard $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and is shown to deliver 100mW output power to load with 41% power added efficiency(PAE) from a 2.5V supply.