• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.220-228
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• 2012

In this paper, we explained the design technique about Ka-band active limiter for protecting the receiver of a millimeter wave seeker. To implement low flat leakage power, we proposed the control circuit of active limiter to control limiter voltage with PRF(Pulse Repetition Frequency) signal and input power. This active limiter consisted of the conventional 2 stage passive limiter, a feedback circuit with a directional coupler, detector, non-inverting amplifier and over-current protection resistance. As the test result of the fabricated Ka-band limiter, it had 1 GHz bandwidth, 3.5 dB insertion loss at the small input power and -7.5 dBm flat leakage at the 4 W RF input power, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.625-629
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• 2003

Low loss and high power MMIC limiters with GaAs PM diode were designed and fabricated. The new epitaxial structure of GaAs PIN diode was proposed in order to increase the high power capability. 2 types of limiter circuits have been designed and the limiting powers have been measured. Results indicated that the limiting power was depended on the circuit topology. Limiting power levels of 2-stage limiters are measured 16 ㏈m and 22 ㏈m at 14 ㎓, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.971-978
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• 2018

This paper deals with the design and implementation of a limiter, which is a key component of the Ku-band radar system. The limiter design with the multi-pin diode switch was complemented by wideband signal attenuation, and realized the physical implementation. In the test result of implemented limiter, when the pin diode switch is all off, it is possible to transmit the incoming signal without distortion. Also when the pin diode switch is turned on sequentially, the input signal is attenuated about 20dB or more step by step. Finally when all of them were turned on, attenuation about 50dB or more were measured for a wide bandwidth(1000MHz) in Ku-band.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.791-796
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• 2012

A RF limiter is a component to protect the receiver front end from undesired signal. A RF limiter is a key component whose output is constant level for all inputs above a critical value. A RF limiter use a diode to pass signals of low power while attenuating those above some threshold. A RF limiter for receiver protection in modern radar systems is playing a vital role in order to meet challenges of new interference threats and complicated electromagnetic environments. This paper proposed a new circuit for high power RF limiter whose structure is the combination of the PIN diode and Limit diode. PIN diode take a use of its isolation characteristics which act as a switch does. A 2 kW RF limiter with 200 us pulse width at S-band was developed. It shows good agreements between estimated value and measured results.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1187-1191
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• 2011

In this paper, the development of an adjustable load limiter is presented, which is a component of the seat belt. The adjustable load limiter is loaded at different levels for varied weights and heights of occupant. The recent regulation FMVSS 208 demands strict safety standards for different percentiles of dummy size. In this work, high- and low-level load conditions are proposed according to dummy scale and thoracic injury criteria. The suggested load conditions were verified by performing a sled test using the benchmark model. A dual-level load limiter has been developed on the basis of these tests. Experiments were conducted on the product performance, and finite element analysis was carried out; the results confirmed the points for improvement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.4 s.107
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• pp.368-379
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• 2006

In this paper, the analytic design technique for a planar PIN diode limiter is presented rather than the conventional design heavily relying on the experiments. The novel analysis fur the PIN diode limiter shows the leakage is composed of two kinds of leakages and the relationship between the leakages and the PIN diode parameters. The designed limiter consists of 3 stages; the front two stages with two PM diodes and the final stage with Schottky diode pair. The fabricated limiter shows the insertion loss of 0.8 dB for the small input power, spike leakage of 12 Bm, flat leakage of 12 dBm for the 20 W RF power.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.807-809
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 광 부호분할다중접속(OCDMA) 시스템 구현을 위해 각 가입자의 시간ㆍ파장영역의 2차원 부호할당 및 변경이 가능하고 다중 사용자의 암호화된 데이터의 동시 전송과 모든 수신 노드에서 복원이 가능한 OCDMA 시스템 구조를 제안하였다. 또한 기존의 이중 광 하드리미터를 제한증폭기와 AND 게이트를 사용하여 이중 전기 하드리미터를 구현하였다. 서로 다른 파장을 갖는 레이저 다이오드와 FPGA를 이용한 전기 상관기로서 시간과 파장영역의 2차원으로 부호 다중화된 동시 가입자 신호에서 특정 가입자의 신호를 복원하였고, 제한 검출기와 위치 검출기의 이중 전기 하드리미터를 이용하여 MAI로 인한 기존 OCDMA 시스템에서의 식별력 저하와 비트오류 문제를 해결하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.1065-1072
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• 2012

In this paper, the method of design of the waveguide band-pass filter and limiter in radar system is proposed. First, we design a self-resonant iris, which can behave as a band-pass filter by mounting the PIN diode on the iris. When low power microwave is incident on the proposed element, the element behaves as a band-pass filter. Under a high power microwave condition, however, the element behaves as a limiter having wide band stop characteristics. The fabricated element has a pass band with -0.7 dB insertion loss at 10 GHz under the low power condition and isolation about 25 dB under the high power condition.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1084-1094
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• 1991

Upon introducing satellite communication system to korea, one of the important problems to copy with is the effect from the probable intentional interference i. e. jamming. In this paper, we have considered the M any PSK signal and the soft limiter type, which contains hard limiter, nonhnear satellite transponder in environments of uplink tone or noise jamming plus Gaussian noise and downlink Gaussian noise. Using the derived error rate equation, we have evaluated numerically the error performance of BPSK and QPSK system, and shown in figures in terms of upink and downink earner to jamming rater(CJR) and limiting level. From the results we have known that tone jamming effect on the error performance in BPSK and QPSK signals in nonlinear satelhie shnnel become less with increasing the uplink CNR and with decreasing the liniting level. And in a tone jamming, the limiting level affects hardly on the error performance of both BPSK and QPSK signals. When limiting leveri is zero, BPSK and QPSK signals show the best error rate performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.4B
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• pp.324-330
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed a simple modification on Fiebig's REC algorithm for multiuser detection of FH/MFSK systems replacing hard limiter with soft limiter. The performance improvement of our modified REC algorithm has been confirmed with computer simulations. for the parameter of interest, the capacity could be increased about 5% or more without degrading the reliability.