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Thermal Compensation Circuit with Improved Compensation Characteristic for Power Amplifier

개선된 보상특성을 갖는 증폭기용 온도보상회로

  • Jung, Young-Bae (Electronics and Control Engineering, Hanbat National University)
  • 정영배 (한밭대학교 전자.제어공학과)
  • Received : 2012.07.12
  • Accepted : 2012.08.13
  • Published : 2012.09.30
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Abstract

This paper introduces a thermal compensation circuit with improved compensation characteristic for amplifiers to provide stable output power regardless environmental temperature. The proposed thermal compensation circuit is composed of two branchline couplers having two diodes between them. And, the thermistor whose resistance varies significantly with temperature inversely and a operational amplifiers, so called as OP-amp, control the diodes in the compensations circuit to realize more effective thermal compendation characteristic compared with conventional circuit.

본 논문에서는 증폭기의 온도에 따른 균일한 출력특성을 구현하기 위한 개선된 보상특성을 갖는 증폭기용 온도보상회로를 제안한다. 제안된 온도보상회로는 직렬로 연결된 2개의 브랜치라인(Branchline) 결합기와 결합기 사이에 위치한 2개의 다이오드로 구성된다. 그리고, 회로의 주변온도에 따라서 저항값이 반비례하는 특서을 갖는 써미스터(Thermistor)와 써미스터를 포함하는 오피엠프(Operational amplifier, OP-Amp.)회로로 다이오드의 동작 특성을 조정함으로써 기존의 온도보상회로에 비하여 보다 효율적인 보상특성을 갖도록 설계하였다.

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