4.65° with standard deviation of 3.21°. It means that the precision
of our DOA finder is approximately 5°.
5. CONCLUSION
This article has presented the low profile of 2.4 GHz DOA finder.
The finder is constituted by 2 2 rectangular array, beamforming
network, power detector and economic microprocessor. To be
compatible with 2D array antenna and achieve uniformly beam
distribution, the modified Butler matrix utilized in beamforming
network has been originally proposed in this article. The experi-
mental results have confirmed the direction finding capability of the
prototype. This DOA finder has been found very attractive for com-
mercial in WLAN positioning system or other system providing
location-based services. This is because it is not complex and costly.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors acknowledge the financial support from Thailand
Research Fund and Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand.
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COMPACT HARMONIC CONTROL
NETWORK FOR DOHERTY POWER
AMPLIFIER
Paolo Colantonio, Franco Giannini, Rocco Giofre ` , and
Luca Piazzon
Electronic Engineering Department, University of Roma Tor Vergata,
via del, Politecnico 1, Roma 00133, Italy; Corresponding author:
giofr@ing.uniroma2.it
Received 8 May 2008
ABSTRACT: In this contribution, an innovative design solution to realize
small size Doherty power amplifier is presented. The idea consists in the
realization of a unique output matching network for both carrier and peak-
ing devices without losing the Doherty behavior. Experimental results per-
formed on uneven Doherty amplifier using GaN HEMT device is given to
demonstrate the proposed approach. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 256–258, 2009; Published online in
Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.
23983
Figure 10 Absolute power differences between two output ports having
neighbor main beam vs. DOA. [Color figure can be viewed in the online
issue, which is available at www.interscience.wiley.com]
Figure 11 Estimated DOA vs. DOA of source. [Color figure can be
viewed in the online issue, which is available at www.interscience.wiley.com]
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