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The US Senate has unanimously approved a resolution condemning a new Russian law banning US citizens from adopting Russian children and calling on President Vladimir Putin and the Russian leadership to reconsider the measure on humanitarian grounds.
In its resolution, approved in a vote late Tuesday, the Senate affirmed that all children deserve to live in a permanent, protective family and said it valued a "long tradition" of the US and Russian governments working together to find homes for children who have been deprived of their parents.
The Senate also said it "disapproves of the Russia law ending inter-country adoptions of Russian children by United States citizens because it primarily harms vulnerable and voiceless children" and "strongly urges the Russia Government to reconsider the law on humanitarian grounds, in consideration of the well-being of parentless Russian children awaiting a loving and permanent family."
The Senate resolution noted that the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates there are 740,000 children living in Russia without parental care. It also cited data from the Russian Ministry of Science and Education affirming that 110,000 children live in state institutions in Russia.
"Whatever issues our two governments may be facing, there is no political reason to put vulnerable children in the middle of political posturing," said US Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who authored the resolution and serves as Co-Chair of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about foster care and international adoption issues.
"Children should be raised by parents, not in orphanages, institutions or alone on the street," she said.
The Russian ban on adoptions by US citizens was signed in response to the Magnitsky Act, an American law signed by President Obama in December which calls for sanctions on individual Russian citizens deemed by the United States to have violated human rights.
Critics say the Magnitsky Act, which targeted Russians alone, was discriminatory, superfluous and intentionally unfriendly. The measure infuriated Russian lawmakers, who consequently responded by passing their own human rights legislation aimed specifically at US citizens, including the adoption ban.
The back-and-forth political shouting match has left hundreds of Americans who were already in the process of adopting Russian children – many specific sets of American parents and Russian children had already been paired– in limbo.
It is not clear whether those families will be allowed to complete the adoption process and bring the children to their new homes in America.
"As a grandparent of an internationally adopted child, I know that this new law is against the interests of the Russian people, in particular Russian children," said Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, who also serves as Co-Chair for CCAI.
"It is nothing more than a political play against the United States that ultimately leads to greater hardships and more suffering for Russian children who will now be denied a loving family," he said.
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Check out Sideshow at The Pony Club gallery this Thursday! The show will feature several portraits of different sideshow acts, including one I did. More details here.
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December 18th * 6 PM – 10 PM * Pioneer Place Mall * 700 SW 5th Ave
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The Settlement, which is a partnership of 4 galleries in the top floor of Pioneer Mall was a gift provided by Bob Buchanan, the senior general manager of the company that manages Pioneer Place. The 4 galleries include People's, Place, Store, and Trade. People's, which was once a toy store, is a gallery will hundreds of artists from Portland. Place is a gallery showing installations, commentary, and spatial art. Store, operated by PNCA, showcases installation works by the BFA students of Victor Maldonado's Art, Ethics, and Transgression class. And Trade, features "local institutions that fill a creative and experimental niche."
The featured artists this month at People's include EMEK, Joel Barber, and Dan Ness. Also there will be work from many other artists including myself. There will be refreshments provided by Ninkasi Brewing and probably a lot of people to mingle with.
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I've been away for awhile. Not just away from this blog, but away from home. I packed up the car and went on a week long road trip last week. I saw some Nevada desert. It was a long drive. I'm back now and working on tons of drawings for a few upcoming shows. Before my vacation, I finished work for the I Am, Therefore I Think show. Now, I'm half way done with the OCTOber show.
The OCTOber show, cleverly scheduled in October, will be held at the Benjamin Benjamin gallery, located on NW Lovejoy. The show features 14 artists creating pieces of art featuring one subject: octopuses.
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If you recall the 1999 flick Entrapment, you'll remember Sean Connery gets to canoodle with a cat-suited Catherine Zeta-Jones.
In one scene, Connery's wily art thief and Zeta-Jones's sultry insurance investigator boat down a squalid, slum-edged river, as the Petronas Twin Towers, the conjoined pearl of Kuala Lumpur, gleam in the background.
A box-office smash, the movie helped to revive one of its filming locations: an exotic Asian port city that had fallen on hard times.
The footage was actually filmed in Melaka, 150 kilometres south of the Malaysian capital. In true Hollywood-style, the towers were simply superimposed.
"The prime minister [at the time, Mahathir Mohamad] was jumping mad when he saw the film," says Ho Peck Choo, my Melakan guide. "He thought it gave a terrible impression of KL. And he was angry with how bad Melaka looked."
Stung, the Melakan authorities cleaned up the river and its banks.
"Things have changed enormously," says Choo, as we stroll prim new boardwalks and promenades, shaded by betel nut palms and lined with guesthouses and al fresco cafes, teahouses and restaurants.
The buildings' backs are splashed with giant murals depicting scenes and characters from Melakan history and culture, including bearded sailors and pale-faced temptresses.
"These buildings were very dirty before; embarrassing when the tourist boats came past," she adds.
The resident historian at Melaka's stylish Majestic Hotel (from which she leads twice-daily heritage walking tours for guests), Choo stresses that the riverside hasn't been completely tamed. Beside a near-abandoned fishing village of battered wooden shacks, we see a chunky monitor lizard rummaging in mangroves.
In 2008, Melaka was jointly awarded a UNESCO World Heritage rating with Georgetown, on Penang, the Malaysian island with which it shares cultural traits - and a fierce rivalry.
It was the rise of Penang - along with Singapore and Batavia (now Jakarta) - allied with the silting up of the Melaka River, that signalled Melaka's decline late in the 18th century.
Established about 1392 by a Hindu prince from Sumatra, then seized by Islamic sultans, steamy Melaka (also known as Malacca) hugs one of the narrowest sections of the Straits of Malacca, a shipping route linking the Indian Ocean with the Far East.
Nestled at a meeting point of the changing monsoonal trade winds, Melaka's port and meandering river became a hive of Arab, Indian, Persian and Chinese seafarers and merchants, who traded spices, dyes and silk, and injected their genes and memes into local Malay society.
Then the Europeans captured Melaka; the Portuguese (in 1511), the Dutch (in 1641), and the British (in 1795). During World War II, the Japanese invaded.
Melaka's multicultural ingredients flavour the city's highly walkable and non-smoking (puffers are fined for lighting up) historic core.
On the right bank of a brackish river similar in width to an Amsterdam canal, postcard images vie for attention: the bright red Stadthuys, the official residence of Dutch governors, Christ Church Melaka (founded 1753), a replica of the 15th century sultan's palace, and the ruins of St Paul's, an eerie Catholic chapel-cum-Protestant church atop a grassy hill, from which you can glean sweeping views over the city and straits.
Down below, the Porta de Santiago is the sole trace of a mammoth Portuguese-built bastion, mostly destroyed, with gunpowder, by the Brits.
A Dutch-style windmill, a wooden waterwheel and a giant Portuguese galleon (at the maritime museum) are among eye-catching modern additions to the right bank. Melaka's most atmospheric zone, however, is across the river: Chinatown.
With antique curio shops, weekend night markets (selling food and trinkets) and aromatic restaurants dishing up chicken rice balls, fluffy pork buns and cendol (an invigorating dessert laced with shaved ice and cane syrup), vibrant Jonker Street is a must. Chinatown's quieter arteries are also worth exploring.
Dubbed the Street of Harmony, photogenic Jalan Tukang has a Hindu temple, a pagoda-capped mosque, and allegedly Malaysia's oldest Chinese temple.
Dating back to 1646, tranquil Cheng Hoon Teng is festooned with gilded Buddhas, mythological figurines and burning joss-sticks.
Once humming with goldsmith workshops and opium dens, the neighbouring alleys are a riot of tin-roofed pharmacies and stores selling shark fins, bird's nests, machetes, meat hooks, teapots, clocks, lanterns, rubber stamps and lacquered boards engraved with gilded Chinese characters.
At 56 Jalan Tukong, Wah Aik Shoemakers craft, as souvenirs, minuscule embroidered bound-feet shoes - a relic of the ancient Chinese custom of stunting the growth of young girls' feet (apparently to help secure a husband).
More comfy are Wah Aik's pretty beaded slippers - a symbol of Melaka's Peranakan people. Also known as Baba-Nyonya, or Straits Chinese, Peranakans derived from the intermingling of Chinese migrants and indigenous Malays.
The story is fleshed out at the Baba-Nyonya Heritage Museum on Heeren Street, a Dutch-built road popular with wealthy 20th-century Peranakan families.
Characterised by mansions and shop-houses with intricate facades, and courtyards, Heeren Street houses galleries and boutique hotels and a cultural centre dedicated to preserving Melaka's vintage properties.
My favourite aspect of Peranakan culture is the food - a tantalising fusion of Malay and Chinese influences. Nancy's Kitchen (7 Jalan Hang Lekir, off Jonker Street) is a long-standing Nyonya favourite.
Back at the five-star Majestic - set in a refurbished 1920s' Sino-French style mansion formerly owned by a Chinese rubber plantation owner - I rest in a leather-backed armchair, beneath slow-whirring fans, and savour a mini Peranakan banquet.
There's pie tee (deep-fried sliced turnip with Merlimau prawn), inche kabin (fried chicken), udang kuah pedas (prawn in spicy sweet-sour broth with fresh pineapple and spices), chap chye (garlicky veg stew) and bubur hitam (black glutinous rice with coconut cream).
I then take a Peranakan cookery class, where Majestic chef Po rustles up his grandmother's recipes: ayam pong teh (succulent chicken marinated in preserved bean paste), udang kuah pedas nenas (prawn pineapple curry) and telur dadar cincaluk (omelette with fermented shrimps).
You can absorb more Peranakan culture in the Majestic's modern wing, with pampering at the in-house spa drawing on Baba-Nyonya rituals. Treatments include palm-sugar and honey body scrubs and bird's nest facials.
I opt for my own DIY wellness session: a warm soak in a claw-footed bath, then a siesta in my four-poster bed.
The writer was a guest of Tourism Malaysia and the Majestic Malacca.
GETTING THERE Malaysia Airlines fly to Kuala Lumpur daily; see malaysiaairlines.com. Buses go to Melaka from KL's Bersepadu Selatan bus terminal (two-hour journey); see tbsbts.com.my. There are regular buses to Melaka from KL's international airport, and from Singapore (three-hour journey).
STAYING THERE The Majestic Malacca, 188 Jalan Bunga Raya. Rooms from 380 ringgit ($143). See majesticmalacca.com.
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The OIG recommends a Massachusetts hospital repay $15,738 to the state's Medicaid program following an audit that revealed the hospital held on to overpayments longer than it should have.
The OIG identified 122 overpayments greater than 60 days old that Baystate Mary Lane Hospital should have returned to the Medicaid program. The errors occurred because the hospital did not follow its internal procedures for processing and returning Medicaid overpayments, according to the OIG.
The $15,738 includes a federal share of $7,869.
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Credit balances generally occur when the reimbursement that a provider receives for services provided to a Medicaid beneficiary exceeds the charges billed, such as when a provider receives a duplicate payment for the same service from the Medicaid program or another third party-payer. In these cases, the provider should return the existing overpayment to the Medicaid program.
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- Lean in terms of system resources used, layers, multi-language support, cleaner look, automatic recognition of content type in boxes, support for interactive elements
- Some things less intuitive than they should be, price
Bottom Line
We were impressed with QuarkXPress 8.0. if you've been waiting for a compelling reason to make the move from Quark 4.0 or 5.0, then this may well be it. However, if you're looking for your first professional DTP program, then there's no getting away from the huge price tag with which QuarkXPress 8.0 is saddled, nor the fact that you can kit yourself out with Adobe Creative Suite 3.0's InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator or Dreamweaver package for only several hundred dollars more.
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In QuarkXPress 8.0, Quark believes it has the right product to take the desktop-publishing fight back to rival Adobe's InDesign package.
It's been two years since Quark last launched a new version of its XPress flagship desktop publishing program and it's been a time of re-evaluation. Ever since Adobe decided to step on Quark's patch and make its own play for the DTP market with the launch of InDesign, Quark has had its work cut out trying to retain its customer base.
Unfortunately for Quark, high prices and the fact that Adobe can offer tight integration with its other market-leading titles, Photoshop, Illustrator and, more recently, Flash and Dreamweaver, mean it's been a losing battle.
With QuarkXPress 8.0, the company believes it's got the product right and we have to agree that this latest version is very strong. Trouble is, it's too late and too expensive.
For QuarkXPress 8.0 the company has gone back to the drawing board and rewritten the software from the bottom up. The result is a lean-looking program that demands no more system resources than QuarkXPress 5.0 or 6.0. QuarkXPress 8.0 also offers support for layers throughout.
While this is of interest for designers in terms of image handling, it also enables Quark to offer a global, multi-language version of XPress for the first time. Prior to this, you needed the yet pricier Passport version if you needed to produce multilingual documents from the same layout. With QuarkXPress 8.0, you can download additional languages (other territories such as the US have Spanish or French preinstalled).
Typographic tools have always been extremely strong in QuarkXPress and version 8.0 extends them still further, with support for baseline grid settings on a box by box or style by style basis. It's now possible to jump to the next instance of a style too, which makes it easier to see the effect of global stylesheet changes.
Blocks of text in quotations can now be made to look 'visually' right with the introduction of quote marks that sit outside a justified paragraph, something Quark says customers have long requested.
Getting around QuarkXPress 8.0 is easier too. Quark has standardised its shortcuts to reflect those used in other design-related programs such as Illustrator and says test program customers, particularly from its all-important large publishing houses, report noticeable time and measurable cost savings as a result.
You can drag to rotate and resize with ease whereas previously you'd be entering angle values and can generally work a lot more visually (although the more methodical mathematical tools are still there if you prefer).
Navigation buttons at the bottom left offer more split-pane window view options too, while Mac OS users who purchase QuarkXPress 8.0 will enjoy the addition of large thumbnail previews of each page.
QuarkXPress 8.0 looks cleaner too. The cluttered toolbox and measurements bar have been pared back and items grouped thematically and displayed only when the context dictates. Most notably and straightforwardly, you no longer have to decide in advance whether that box at the top right is to contain text or an image; instead, QuarkXPress 8.0 recognises the type of content you've filled it with and offers appropriate tools.
These now include proper Bezier line drawing tools, so you don't have to flip out into Illustrator all the time. QuarkXPress 8.0 mimics InDesign in its implementation of drop shadow support — something that now has a dedicated icon and associated measurement toolbar. Illustrator and PDF documents get proper native support too.
In practice, we found some of these improvements less intuitive than all this suggests — click anywhere in QuarkXPress 8.0 and you'll be constantly pressing Ctrl-Z to get rid of that box you didn't want it to auto-create in the first place. However, the ease of creation comes into its own when you want to associate multiple text boxes without grouping items.
Finally, and crucially for Quark, there's proper support for interactive elements. Interactive Designer is being integrated into QuarkXPress 8.0 in line with Quark's statement that DTP "is no longer about static pages".
While this feature is no match for having Flash as part of your creative arsenal, the ability to make a duplicate of your layout and designate it an interactive project with SWF files and mouseover actions is a real step forward for QuarkXPress 8.0.
You don't need to start out with an 'interactive' template either — you can retrospectively add Flash elements to an existing layout. We tried running a train along the route of the steam railway in the brochure we'd produced having first imported a map and roughly drawn along its length. We also had photos appear on mouseovers.
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Contact family of blast victims: HC judge to DHCBA
New Delhi: In a bid to provide speedy
justice, a Delhi High Court judge has asked the lawyers`
association to contact family members of the September 7 blast
victims so that their cases can be decided on "out-of-turn"
Justice Kailash Gambhir, in a letter to Delhi High Court
Bar Association (DHCBA), said, "I am making a request to you
to establish a contact with the family of the victims who lost
their lives and those who injured themselves or through their
lawyers to know the details of their cases.
"So that with the directions of the Chief Justice,
necessary directions can be given to the Registry to list
cases of those victims before the concerned courts for hearing
on out-of-turn basis."
Justice Gambhir has also written separately to Chief
Justice Dipak Misra for creating a special category to deal
with the cases of victims at priority basis.
"I have impressed upon to create a special category to
expeditiously decide cases of all the victims ...as this small
gesture as an institution is the least we can contribute so
that the victims are at least solaced on this front," he said.
The judge said the attack at the reception of High Court,
killing 13 and injuring over 90 others, took place because of
lax security despite an earlier attack on May 25.
"No doubt, the lax in security despite put to warning
with the last blast on May 25 is a major factor encouraging
the terrorist outfits to again strike at our court," he said.
In a response to the letter, Additional Solicitor General
and DHCBA President A S Chandhiok said "We are ready for any
help for victims and their family and we are waiting for the
list from authorities at various hospitals."
Kirti Uppal, vice president of the DHCBA, said the bar
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Now, a pen to bust stress
London: A researcher has developed the prototype of a pen which gauges a user`s stress levels and helps ease them.
Doctoral student Miguel Bruns Alonso from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands found that people tend to play with their pens when they are tense.
"That is why I have developed a pen which can detect `nervous` movements and determine whether the user is stressed," he said, according to a Delft statement.
"When it detects the quicker movements associated with stress, the pen gradually becomes more difficult to move around. This encourages users to move in a more relaxed way, which in turn makes the pen yield more easily again," Alonso said.
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No. 2 Michigan St. tops No. 1 Kentucky
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Julius Randle had 23 of his 27 points in the second half, as the Wildcats (2-1) erased a 13-point deficit to the Spartans (2-0).
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Andrew Wiggins scored 16 of his 22 points in the second half as No. 5 Kansas (2-0) defeated No. 4 Duke (1-1), 94-83, in Chicago.
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|Dec 20, 1994
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|James R. Griffiths, Inder J. Bahl
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|Itt Corporation
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This invention relates to power amplifiers and more particularly to power amplifiers which are used at high frequencies such as in the microwave range.
Field effect transistor (FET) power amplifiers can operate in either class AB, class B, or class C and so on. These amplifiers normally require two voltage sources for proper biasing. The drain voltage of the FET is always positive and requires three to twelve volts DC. The gate voltage requires a negative voltage of about 0.5 to 4 volts DC. In any event conventional self biased amplifiers utilizing a single voltage source have been used in low noise and class A applications. The conventional self biased amplifier is not capable of producing appreciable RF power due to the negative feedback effect in the bias caused by the applied RF power. This is of a particular concern for microwave operation or operation for frequencies in the range between 1 GHZ to 2 GHZ or more. As one can ascertain microwave FETs such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices are capable of extremely high frequency operation and are relatively low noise devices because only the majority carriers participate in the operation of such devices.
For example, devices as GaAs MESFETs and other such devices have been widely employed in the microwave frequency band. A microwave amplifier usually consists of a cascade of several active devices with interstage and input/output matching networks. The design and operation of such amplifiers in the various classes as indicated above is well known. However, the design of the bias circuits for monolithic ICs (MMICs) amplifiers in microwave technology is as important as the design of the matching networks. A good RF design becomes useless if the amplifier oscillates due to an improper bias network design. The bias circuit determines the device operating point, (power or low noise), amplifier stability particularly at lower microwave frequencies, temperature stability and often gain. Depending on the application for low noise, high gain, and class operation (A, AB, or B) and for efficiency an optimum DC operating bias point exists. Various networks for biasing FET amplifiers are well known and as indicated above normally require at least two sources namely a positive drain source and a negative gate source or alternatively a positive drain source and a positive source electrode voltage. Examples of typical FET biasing circuits for microwave frequencies can be had by reference to a text entitled GaAs Integrated Circuits-Design and Technology edited by Joseph Mum published by McMillan Publishing Company (1988), chapter 4 entitled "Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Design or MMIC Design". Page 251, Figure 4.37 depicts various FET biasing circuits. In any event, as one will understand power amplifier design is considerably more complex than small signal linear amplifier design due to many factors.
In contrast to small signal amplifier design, power amplifiers are generally designed to provide maximum power to a load at high efficiency. The bias point of the device has a major impact on the device output power and efficiency. While class A operation produces the highest power, class AB or more accurately, class B usually results in the highest efficiency.
In any event, conventional self biased amplifiers utilizing a single voltage source when used in low noise and class A applications are not capable of producing RF power as indicated above due the negative feedback effect in the bias caused by the applied RF power.
The dual bias designs (two voltage supplies) require a power up and down sequence whereby the gate bias is first applied for power up and the drain bias must first be removed for power down. This sequence must be followed to prevent degradation of the device or actual destruction of the device due to the resultant high drain currents. Thus the scheme which is utilized for dual bias devices requires extra bias circuitry to assure such synchronization.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a power amplifier utilizing a single bias voltage source which exhibits improved power gain and power operation.
An RF power amplifier, comprising a field effect transistor (FET) having a gate, drain, and source electrode, with said gate electrode adapted to receive an input RF signal with said drain electrode adapted to receive a source of DC potential, a unilateral current conducting device having a first and second terminal, with the first terminal of said device coupled to said FET source electrode and with the second terminal of said device coupled to a point of reference potential, a capacitor shunting said unilateral current conducting device and impedance means shunting said capacitor and operative to provide a bias voltage at said source electrode according to the drain current flowing through said FET, whereby as said input RF signal increases the current through said unilateral current conducting device increases in a direction to maintain the gain and therefore the power output of said amplifier constant.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a conventional self biased amplifier according to the prior art.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a self biased power amplifier according to this invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a self biased power amplifier utilizing a constant current source according to this invention.
Referring to FIG. 1 there is shown a prior art conventional self biased amplifier. The amplifier in FIG. 1 utilizes a microwave FET device 14 having the drain electrode coupled through an inductor 15 to the positive terminal of a single bias or voltage source 16. The negative terminal of the bias source 16 is coupled to a point of reference potential such as ground. The voltage source 16 is conventionally shunted by a bypass capacitor 17. The source electrode of the FET 14 is coupled to the shunt combination of a bias resistor 19 in shunt with a bypass capacitor 18. The other terminal of the shunt combination is directed to the point of reference potential. A microwave or RF signal developed by a source or generator 10 is applied to the FET gate electrode via an impedance circuit consisting of resistor 11 in series with capacitor 12. The gate electrode is further coupled to the point of reference potential via a shunt inductor 13. The operating frequency of the amplifier may be in the vicinity of between 1 to 18 GHZ and typically a frequency of 1.885 GHZ may be employed.
As one can see from FIG. 1, a bias voltage for the FET 14 is developed across resistor 19 to thereby produce a quiescent operating voltage for the FET 14. The voltage across resistor 19 is a direct function of the drain current which current is supplied by the single voltage source 16. As one will understand for class A operation it is desired that the FET be biased in the center of its linear characteristic so that the positive and negative voltage swings due to the input RF signal at the gate electrode are relatively the same. This is typical class A operation. See the aforementioned text page 257, paragraph 4-4-1.1, entitled "Class A Operation". In the amplifier configuration shown in FIG. 1 as the applied RF power increases at the gate electrode from generator 10 there is a resulting increase in drain current. In this manner the voltage across resistor 19 in series with the source electrode increases which results in a reduction in gain and power. Capacitor 18 is employed to attempt to bypass the resistor 19 for RF operation. In any event the voltage at the source electrode will increase due to the increased drain current and because of this there is a reduction in power.
Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3 schematic diagrams for amplifiers according to this invention are shown. Essentially, as one will ascertain from FIGS. 2 and 3, similar components have been indicated by associated reference numerals. For example the generator 10 of FIG. 1 is referenced to as 20 in FIG. 2 and 30 FIG. 3, resistor 11 of FIG. 1 is referenced to as resistor 21 in FIG. 2 and resistor 31 in FIG. 3 and so on. It is further indicated that the output signal (volt) of FIG. 1 is provided between the junction by capacitor 50 and resistor 51.
As shown in FIG. 2 the source electrode of FET 24 is now directed to the point of reference potential via resistor 29 which is shunted by a diode 40 and capacitor 28. As can be seen the diode 40 has its anode electrode coupled to the FET source electrode with the cathode electrode coupled to the point of reference potential. It is understood that the diode 40 can be implemented by utilization of a FET device having the gate electrode coupled to the drain electrode or to the source electrode. In any event, as one can understand a single biasing source 26 is again employed which biasing source enables FET 24 to produce a drain current. A FET source voltage is developed due to resistor 29 which voltage provides the bias for the amplifier. As seen again in FIG. 2 the amplifier requires one voltage source namely source 26 and includes the voltage limiting diode 40 that is in parallel across resistor 29.
The diode 40 which appears across the source impedance (resistor 29 and capacitor 28) operates to provide a voltage drop which voltage drop is limited by the turn on voltage of the diode. The extra current required from the voltage source during power amplification is directed through the diode and the source bypass capacitor 28. This results in the source voltage remaining constant. Thus for increasing RF signals from generator 20 and applied to the drain electrode of the FET 24, the voltage across the FET source electrode does not increase as does the voltage in the prior art, but is limited by the current flowing through the diode 40. In this manner the gain and power operation of the amplifier is held relatively constant as compared to the prior art devices. While a single diode 40 is shown it is obvious that such diodes can be placed in series and in shunt with the resistor 29 and capacitor 28. The series connection of diodes as for example 1, 2 or more enables one to change the voltage drop which voltage drop would now be limited by the turn on voltage of the series diodes. Thus the voltage drop would be a function of the number of diodes in series.
In regard to the circuit configuration of FIG. 3 there is shown a diode 60 which operates as diode 40. In any event, the resistor 29 of FIG. 2 has been replaced by a FET 39 having the gate electrode connected to the FET source electrode. The FET 39 operates as a diode and functions as a constant current source in conjunction with diode 60. In this manner the voltage drop is again limited by the turn on voltage of the diode 60. The extra current required from the voltage source during power amplification passes through the diode 60 as well as through the FET 39 and the bypass capacitor 38. This results in the source voltage of FET 34 remaining relatively constant. The output (Vout) is derived at the junction between capacitor 54 and resistor 55. Thus the circuits shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 both require one voltage source and include voltage limiting circuitry which operates in parallel across the FET source impedance to provide relatively constant gain and power operation.
Components utilized in these amplifiers are as follows. It is understood that these component values are given only by way of example and different values could be employed. A typical frequency of operation which would be provided by frequency sources 10, 20, and 30 is 1.885 GHZ. Resistors 11, 21, and 31 are 50 ohms, Capacitors 12, 22, and 32 are 100 picofarads, Inductors 13, 23, and 33 are 30 nanohenrys. The field effect transistors are gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices for typical microwave operation, Capacitors 18, 28, and 38 are 200 picofarads, with resistors 19 and 29 being 20 ohms. Inductors 15, 25, and 35 are 25 nanohenrys, with capacitors 17, 27, and 37 being 68 picofarads. Capacitors 50, 52, and 54 are typically 100 picofarads with resistors 51, 53, and 55 being 50 ohms. The voltage sources 16, 26, and 36 typically operate at 3 volts DC. This voltage of 3 volts is used in operation by typical cellular systems which operate in the range of 1 to 2 GHZ. The 3 volts is supplied by conventional batteries. In any event, the voltage can be between three to 12 volts as supplied by conventional batteries. The FET devices 14, 24, and 34 are typically 1200 micron devices. As one can ascertain, the amplifier operation at a voltage of 3 volts complicate the biasing problem of the FET power amplifier for class AB or B operation from a single power supply. This problem is even more difficult because of the low operating voltage.
In any event, the above described circuits operate to avoid excessive power loss and avoid an increase in intermodulation products to enable the amplifiers of FIG. 2 and 3 to operate at class A operation producing relatively symmetrical positive and negative swings thereby producing relatively linear voltage outputs. Based on circuit tests, the source diode operation improved the gain from 6.5 db to 18 db with a substantial improvement in power output. Other alternatives are encompassed within the spirit and scope of this invention as defined by the claims therein.
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|International Classification
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|European Classification
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