• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.319-324
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• 2018

In this paper, a high power amplifier using RF power solid-state semiconductor is implemented to overcome a problem of plasma generator which has the low efficiency, short life span, the difficult maintenance and the high-operation cost. This power amplifier consists of a radial combiner of low-loss and high power operation and the sixteen 300 W power amplifiers to obtain 3 kW output power for high power operation implemented in semiconductors at industrial scientific medical (ISM) band of 2.45 GHz. In addition, this amplifier overcomes the problem of heat generation due to high power by applying a water-cooled structure to the individual amplifiers. This power amplifier, which is made up of a small system, achieves 50% efficiency at the desired output.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.327-330
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• 1998

A 2watts MMIC(Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits) SSPA(Solid State Power Amplifiers) for 20GHz band communication systems has been designed, manufactured and measured. The 0.15um pHEMT technologywith the gate size of 400um for single device was used for the fabrication of MMIC Power Amplifier chips. The precision MIC patterns for the peripherals like power combiner/divider and microstrip lines were realized using hard substrate for gold wire/ribbon bonding. The measured data shows that this MMIC SSPA has the linear gain of 18dB, output power of 33.42dBm(2.2Watts)at 20~21GHz.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.1-13
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• 2014

GaN(Gallium Nitride)는 3.4eV의 넓은 에너지 갭으로 인하여 고전압에서 동작이 가능하고, 분극전하를 이용한 캐리어 농도가 높아 높은 전류밀도와 전력밀도를 얻을 수 있으며, 높은 전자 이동도와 포화 속도로부터 고속 동작이 가능하여 고주파 고출력 고효율 소형의 전력증폭기 소자의 재료로 적합하다. 본고에서는 민수 및 군수 겸용 Ku-대역 및 Ka-대역 GaN 고출력 전력증폭기(SSPA: Solid-State Power Amplifier)와 관련된 GaN 전력증폭 소자, GaN 전력증폭기 MMIC(Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit), 내부정합 패키지형 GaN 전력증폭기 및 GaN SSPA에 대하여, 국내외 특허 기술동향과 연구개발 기술동향을 중심으로 고찰하고자 한다. 국외의 GaN 고주파 고출력 전력증폭기 기술의 연구동향이나 특허동향을 심층분석하여 연구개발에 활용하고자 한다.

• 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%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.275-282
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• 1998

In this paper, we designed and fabricated 5-stage microwave solid state power amplifier using balanced amplifier scheme for X-band electronic radar reflector. The used substrate is FR4 and the used active devices are FHX35LC, FLK012WF and FLK022WG. The circuit design and optimization had been carried out through the microwave CAD program CNL2 The measured values show 46dB in gain, input return loss -14.2dB, output return loss -16.6dB and IM3 is 32dBc at designed bandwidth. The measured results are almost agreed with the simulated values.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.186-190
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• 2021

In this study, a compact, picosecond, mid-infrared 3.8 ㎛ MgO:PPLN optical parametric oscillator (OPO) laser output with high peak power is realized using a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) 1 ㎛ solid-state laser seeded by a picosecond fiber laser as the pump source. The pump source was a 50 MHz and 10 ps fiber seed source. After AOM pulse selection and two-stage solid-state amplification, a 1,064 nm laser output with a repetition frequency of 1-2 MHz, pulse width of 9.5 ps, and a maximum average power of 20 W was achieved. Furthermore, a compact short cavity with a unsynchronized pump is adopted through the design of an OPO cavity structure. When the injection pump power was 15 W and the repetition frequency was 1 MHz, the average output power of idler light was 1.19 W, and the corresponding peak power was 119 kW. The optical conversion efficiency was 7.93%. When the repetition frequency was increased to 2 MHz, the average output power of idler light was 1.63 W, the corresponding peak power was 81.5 kW, and the optical conversion efficiency was 10.87%. At the same time, the output wavelength was measured at 3,806 nm, and the beam quality was MX2 = 3.21 and MY2 = 3.34.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.35-42
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• 2022

In this paper, a method to increase the combining efficiency and isolation of the combiner, the core module of SSPA (solid state amplifier), was studied. Specifically, the isolation was secured by matching the common port and the isolation port in the waveguide combiner. The matching structure for matching is in the form of a circular disk and is engraved inside the waveguide combiner. The structure is very simple, so it is possible to secure stable performance. And this structure showed more than 60 times higher critical power performance compared to previous studies, confirming that it is suitable for high output. And by combining 1-stage T-junction and 2, 3 stage MagicT combiner, miniaturization was achieved and the combining efficiency was optimized by reducing the insertion loss. The fabricated waveguide coupler obtained an isolation of 16dB or more and a coupling efficiency of 86.2%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 2010

Recently, there has been much interest in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for next generation wireless wideband communication systems. OFDM is a special case of multicarrier transmission, where a single data stream is transmitted over a number of lower-rate subcarriers. One of the main reasons to use OFDM is to increase robustness against frequency-selective fading or narrowband interference. However, in the radio systems it is also important to distortion introduced by high power amplifiers (HPA's) such as solid state power amplifier (SSPA) considered in this paper. Since the signal amplitude of the OFDM system is Rayleigh-distributed, the performance of the OFDM system is significantly degraded by the nonlinearity of the HPA in the OFDM transmitter. In this paper, we propose a canonical piecewise-linear (PWL) model based digital predistorter to prevent signal distortion and spectral re-growth due to the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM signal and the nonlinearity of HPA's. Computer simulation on an OFDM system under additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels with QPSK, 16-QAM and 64-QAM modulation schemes and modulator/demodulator implemented with 1024-point FFT/IFFT, demonstrate that the proposed predistorter achieves significant performance improvement by effectively compensating for the nonlinearity introduced by the SSPA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.319-325
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• 2004

FHMA(frequency hopping multiple access) communication system has good performance for the LPI and AJ(low probability of intercept and anti-jamming) application. However, high PAPR(peak to average power ratio) happens in the base-station or the repeater system because of a large number of users. In general, predistorter is used to complete the HPA(high power amplifier) nonlinear characteristics. This paper analyzes BER performance when magnitude of IBO(input back oft) and the number of user are considered as the system parameters. In case of the SSPA(solid state power amplifier), the predistorter does not always work as a complete nonlinear compensator. We find that there is a minimum value of IBO for the predistorter to compensate for the nonlinear SSP A, which is changed as the number of user. If IBO is lower than 6 ㏈ at the user number of 16 and p=1, the system with predistorter is poorer than the one without predistorter. Only when the IBO is over 6 ㏈, predistorter does work as a nonlinear compensator. We call it as cross-over IBO value. TWTA improves the more compensation performance than SSPA because characteristic AM/AM of TWTA has more nonlinear than SSPA. At the BER=10$\^$-3/, there are SNR power gains of about 2.5 ㏈ and 3 ㏈ due to the predistorter when the numbers of users are 16 and 32, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.12
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• pp.1083-1090
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• 2015

We designed and manufactured Ka-band SSPA include drive amplifier and high power amplifier MMICs by $0.15{\mu}m$ GaN commercial process. Also, we fabricated main components micro-strip line to WR28 waveguide transition and WR28 wave guide power combiner for Ka-band SSPA. This Ka-band SSPA shows saturated output power 44.2 dBm, power added efficiency 16.6 % and power gain 39.2 dB at 29~31 GHz frequency band.