• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.400-409
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• 2017

We have studied a combiner that can withstand high power while minimizing insertion loss in high frequency band. In particularly, because the output power that can be output per unit elements is much lower in the Ku band and above than in the low frequency band, it is necessary to combine many semiconductor elements in order to make a high power SSPA. A planar combiner such as a microstrip, as the number of elements to be combined increases, the insertion loss increases proportionally, resulting in a reduction in the overall system efficiency and an increase heating value also. The planar combiner also have some problems due to the low power handling rate. To improve these problems, we proposed a Cavity Radial Combiner. A Ku band 16-way Cavity Radial Combiner was fabricated and measured. As a result, it was tested 14dB return loss and over 94.5 % output combining efficiency in design band.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.34D no.8
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

In ahigh power amplifier design, power combiner/divider is used to connect low power amplifiers in parallel. The raidal structure of the powe combiner/divider has not only a good characteristics of port-to-port isolation but also an advantage of giving a redundancy to the structure itself by using RF switches. The parastics of a power resistor, that would be a problem in design process, are removed by both slot lines and cavity resonators, and the comon node in the circuit is rdesigned as a planar topology, and thus a new type of 4-way radial power combiner/divider is accomplished at 1840 ~ 1870 MH PCS frequency band. The insertion loss, reflection, and isolation characteristics of 40way radial power combiner/divider which can be adaptable to PCS system in this thesis are -0.3dB, -24dB,a dn -27dB respectively.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.231-238
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• 2019

In this paper, we have studied how to improve the amplifiers efficiency by minimizing the combining loss when several unit power amplifiers are combined to obtain high output power. Specifically, we have developed Ka-band Spatial Combining Amplifier. The fabricated Spatial Combining Amplifier is a Ka-band 20W class SSPA, which uses a 5W class unit amplifier module 8EA designed using a GaN bare die. We also combined The unit amplifier module using 8-way spatial divider and combiner with a hybrid radial structure. The output combining loss of the fabricated spatial coupler is about 0.334dB, which is about 92.6% efficiency. In this paper, we developed a Spatial Combining Amplifier with a maximum saturation output of 10W and a power addition efficiency of over 15%. As a result, we achieved the maximum saturation output of 30W and the power addition efficiency of 19%.