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High Power Amplifier using Radial Power Combiner

레디알 전력 결합기를 이용한 고출력 증폭기

  • Choi, Jong-Un (Department of Electronic Engineering, Catholic Kwandong University) ;
  • Yoon, Young-Chul (Department of Electronic Engineering, Catholic Kwandong University) ;
  • Kim, Young (School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
  • 최종운 (가톨릭관동대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 윤영철 (가톨릭관동대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 김영 (금오공과대학교 전자공학부)
  • Received : 2017.11.21
  • Accepted : 2017.12.13
  • Published : 2017.12.31
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Abstract

This paper describes a high power amplifier combining eight low power amplifiers using a radial power combiner with low insertion loss. The radial power combiner is a non-resonant type combiner with 8 input ports and is implemented by microstrip transmission line. The combiner characteristics designed at operating frequency of 1.045 GHz have an insertion loss of 0.7 dB and a return loss of more than 12 dB. Also, the low power amplifier used was designed with AFT27S010NT1 transistor and designed to satisfy the same gain, phase and constant output characteristic at operating frequency. The high power amplifier, which combiners the radial power combiner and the drive amplifier of 8 W output by driving low power amplifiers obtained the output characteristic of 33 W at operating frequency of 1.045 GHz. Also, the change of the output characteristic of the amplifier using the radial combiner was graceful degradation when the low power amplifier failed one by one.

본 논문은 삽입 손실이 작은 레디알 전력 결합기를 이용하여 낮은 전력의 증폭기 8개를 결합하여 고출력 증폭기를 구현한 것이다. 구현된 레디알 전력 결합기는 8개의 입력 포트를 갖고 있는 비공진형 특성을 갖고 있으며 마이크로스트립으로 구현하였고, 1.045 GHz 동작 주파수에서 확인한 결합기의 특성은 삽입손실 0.7 dB, 반사손실 12 dB 이상을 얻었다. 또한, 사용된 낮은 전력의 증폭기는 AFT27S010NT1 트랜지스터를 이용하여 설계하였으며, 동작 주파수에서 동일한 이득, 위상 및 일정한 출력 특성을 만족하도록 설계하였다. 제작된 레디알 전력 결합기와 8 W 출력의 드라이브 증폭기를 이용하여 낮은 전력의 증폭기 8개 구동시켜서 결합한 고출력 증폭기는 1.045 GHz 동작 주파수에서 33 W의 출력 특성을 얻었다. 또한, 낮은 전력 증폭기가 고장이 발생했을 때 레디알 결합기를 이용한 증폭기의 출력특성이 점진적으로 열화되는 결과를 확인하였다.

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