• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 소자 결합 구조를 통해 발진전력이 합쳐지는 회로를 이용한 저전압, 고효율 Q-band MIMIC 발진기를 제안한다. 0.1 ㎛ GaAs PHEMTS와 CPW 전송라인을 사용하여 제안된 구조의 발진기를 성공적으로 집적화하였다. 제작된 발진기는 34.56 ㎓ 주파수에서 2.6 ㏈m의 출력 전력일때 19 %의 높은 효율특성을 가졌다. 이때 회로에 인가된 전압은 2.2 V로 현재까지 Q-band에서 발표된 발진기보다 낮은 구동전압 특성을 얻었다. 또한 최대 출력 전력은 34.56 ㎓ 주파수에서 6.7 ㏈m을 얻었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권8호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2006

스위칭모드로 동작하는 증폭기는 수 MHz 대역이상의 주파수에서 고효율의 특성을 가지고 있다고 알려져 있으며, 이러한 스위칭모드 증폭기 중 I급 증폭기는 이론적으로 스위칭 동작을 통해 100%의 효율을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 회로 시뮬레이터를 이용한 하모닉 밸런스 해석을 통해 E급 증폭기를 설계하였다. 설계된 증폭기는 pHEMT 및 마이크로스트립선로로 구현하였으며, 제작된 E급 증폭기는 2.4GHz에서 출력전력이 17.6dBm일 때 66%의 전력부가효율을 가진다. 이 증폭기는 -3dBm의 입력 무선랜 신호를 인가하였을 때 출력스펙트럼 측정 결과가 무선랜 스펙트럼 마스크 표준규격을 만족한다. 즉, $P_{ldB}$의 출력스펙트럼은 요구 스펙트럼 마스크를 만족하지 못하며 9dB back off을 하였을 때 요구 스팩트럼을 만족하는 결과를 나타내었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.339-345
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• 2016

This paper presents a two-stage power amplifier MMIC using a $0.4{\mu}m$ GaN-HEMT process. The two-stage structure provides high gain and compact circuit size using an integrated inter-stage matching network. The size and loss of the inter-stage matching network can be reduced by including bond wires as part of the matching network. The two-stage power amplifier MMIC was fabricated with a chip size of $2.0{\times}1.9mm^2$ and was mounted on a $4{\times}4$ QFN carrier for evaluation. Using a downlink LTE signal with a PAPR of 6.5 dB and a channel bandwidth of 10 MHz for the 2.6 GHz band, the power amplifier MMIC exhibited a gain of 30 dB, a drain efficiency of 32%, and an ACLR of -31.4 dBc at an average output power of 36 dBm. Using two power amplifier MMICs for the carrier and peaking amplifiers, a Doherty power amplifier was designed and implemented. At a 6 dB back-off output power level of 39 dBm, a gain of 24.7 dB and a drain efficiency of 43.5% were achieved.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.452-459
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• 2009

A 6-bit MMIC digital attenuator applicable to X-band TR module has been developed by using $0.5{\mu}m$GaAs pHEMT processes. The Switched-T attenuator scheme and the switched-path attenuator scheme were adopted to obtain low insertion loss and small phase variation, respectively. Resistors and transmission lines are optimized to achieve the digital attenuator with high attenuation accuracy and small phase variation. The digital attenuator has RMS error of 0.4dB, resolution of 0.5dB and dynamic range of 31.5dB. The measurement results show that in-out VSWRs are less than 1.5, phase variation is from -7 to +2 degrees and IIP3 is 36.5dBm.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.471-472
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• 2006

The passivation technology is very important, because this technology can protect a device against the influence of ambient environment, and prevent the performance reduction. In this paper, we fabricated the $0.1{\mu}m\;{\Gamma}$-gate InAlAs/InGaAs metamorphic high electron mobility transistors (MHEMTs) on GaAs substrates using the low-k benzocyclobutene (BCB) and $Si_3N_4$ as a passivation and we performed the comparisons of characteristics of the MHEMTs. After passivation, the DC and RF measurement results were decreased either the conventional Si3N4 or BCB layers. The decrement of the BCB passivation was smaller than the $Si_3N_4$ passivation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.737-745
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• 2017

A 6-GHz-to-18-GHz monolithic nonuniform distributed power amplifier has been designed using the load modulation of increased series gate capacitance. This amplifier was implemented using a $0.25-{\mu}m$ AlGaN/GaN HEMT process on a SiC substrate. With the proposed load modulation, we enhanced the amplifier's simulated performance by 4.8 dB in output power, and by 13.1% in power-added efficiency (PAE) at the upper limit of the bandwidth, compared with an amplifier with uniform gate coupling capacitors. Under the pulse-mode condition of a $100-{\mu}s$ pulse period and a 10% duty cycle, the fabricated power amplifier showed a saturated output power of 39.5 dBm (9 W) to 40.4 dBm (11 W) with an associated PAE of 17% to 22%, and input/output return losses of more than 10 dB within 6 GHz to 18 GHz.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.181-187
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• 2019

In this paper, we demonstrated a power amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) for X-band radar applications. It utilizes commercial $0.25{\mu}m$ GaN-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology and delivers more than 20 W of output power. The developed GaN-based power amplifier MMIC has small signal gain of over 22 dB and saturated output power of over 43.3 dBm (21.38 W) in a pulse operation mode with pulse width of $200{\mu}s$ and duty cycle of 4% over the entire band of 9 to 10 GHz. The chip dimensions are $3.5mm{\times}2.3mm$, generating the output power density of $2.71W/mm^2$. Its power added efficiency (PAE) is 42.6-50.7% in the frequency bandwidth from 9 to 10 GHz. The developed GaN-based power amplifier MMIC is expected to be applied in a variety of X-band radar applications.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.549-561
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• 2020

We developed a 0.1-㎛ metamorphic high electron mobility transistor and fabricated a W-band monolithic microwave integrated circuit chipset with our in-house technology to verify the performance and usability of the developed technology. The DC characteristics were a drain current density of 747 mA/mm and a maximum transconductance of 1.354 S/mm; the RF characteristics were a cutoff frequency of 210 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 252 GHz. A frequency multiplier was developed to increase the frequency of the input signal. The fabricated multiplier showed high output values (more than 0 dBm) in the 94 GHz-108 GHz band and achieved excellent spurious suppression. A low-noise amplifier (LNA) with a four-stage single-ended architecture using a common-source stage was also developed. This LNA achieved a gain of 20 dB in a band between 83 GHz and 110 GHz and a noise figure lower than 3.8 dB with a frequency of 94 GHz. A W-band image-rejection mixer (IRM) with an external off-chip coupler was also designed. The IRM provided a conversion gain of 13 dB-17 dB for RF frequencies of 80 GHz-110 GHz and image-rejection ratios of 17 dB-19 dB for RF frequencies of 93 GHz-100 GHz.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.80-85
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• 2007

Passivation 기술은 소자를 외부 환경의 영향으로부터 보호할 수 있고, 소자 성능의 감소를 예방할 수 있기 때문에 능동 소자 제작에 있어서 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서 passivation 물질로 낮은 유전 상수를 갖는 benzocyclobutene (BCB)과 전통적인 passivation 물질인 Si3N4를 이용하여 GaAs를 기반으로 하는 $0.1{\mu}m\;{\Gamma}$-gate InAlAs/InGaAs metamorphic high electron mobility transistors (MHEMTs)를 제작하였다. 제작된 MHEMT의 특성은 passivation 전과 후로 구분하여 비교하였다. Passivation후 BCB와 Si3N4를 이용한 경우 모두에서 passivation 이전에 비해 저하된 DC 및 RF 특성을 나타내었으나, BCB를 이용하여 passivation을 한 소자들이 전통적인 passivation 물질인 Si3N4를 이용한 소자들에 비해서 상대적으로 낮은 특성 저하를 DC와 RF에서 함께 나타내었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제37권8호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2000

분자선결정성장법을 이용하여 자기구성 양자점들을 high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)의 체널 영역에 삽입하여, 양자점내의 inter-subband transition을 이용한 전파장 적외선 수광소자를 제작하였다. 제작된 소자는 180 K 이상의 온도에서 InAs 양자점의 전자에 대한 강한 구속력으로 인해 낮은 암전류 특성을 보이며 7${\mu}m$에서 11${\mu}m$까지의 넓은 수광영역을 나타내었다. 9.4${\mu}m$에서 peak 광전류가 검출되었으며 이때의 검출율은 $1.93{\times}10^{10}cmHz^{1/2}/W$ 였다. 장파장 적외선 검출에 따른 광전류는 가해진 전압에 대하여 전계효과트랜지스터와 같은 전류-전압 특성을 가지며, 인가된 전압이 증가함에 따라 증가된 암전류에 의하여 광전류가 감소하는 특성을 보여주고 있다.