• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.85-96
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• 2017

In this paper, a 2~18 GHz wideband 6-port network is designed and fabricated to extend the measurement frequency bandwidth of noise parameter measurement method using 6-port network. In order to design a broadband 6-port network, a wilkinson power divider and a directional coupler with wideband characteristics are designed. The wilkinson power divider is designed as a three-section structure to achieve wideband characteristics. The direction coupler is designed as a three-section structure and slot-coupled structure using multi-layer substrate to obtain wideband characteristics. A wideband 6-port network is designed and fabricated combining the designed power divider and coupler. The measured results of the fabricated 6-port network for the 2~18 GHz band show characteristics applicable to the noise parameter measurement method.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.471-473
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• 2012

본 논문은 DMS (defected microstrip structure) 선로를 이용한 전력분배기 설계에 대하여 기술하고 있다. DMS 선로는 마이크로스트립 선로의 패턴에 변형을 가하여 설계되는데, 이 때 부가적으로 발생하는 인덕턴스와 커패시턴스 효과에 의하여 선로의 특성 임피던스가 변하고, 또한 종래 주기구조에서의 특징들을 보인다. 이를 이용하면 초고주파 전송선로 구조의 무선회로들을 소형화할 수 있는데, 그 한 예로 본 논문에서는 윌킨슨 전력분배기를 소형화하는 설계에 대하여 기술한다. DMS 구조를 삽입하여 소형화된 전력분배기를 설계한 결과, 소형화된 분배기는 표준형 회로에 비하여 약 82%의 크기를 가지면서도 우수한 성능을 갖는다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 주변에서 쉽게 구할 수 있는 재료를 이용해 만든 인덕터와 커패시터를 사용해 윌킨슨 전력 분배기를 설계/제작하였다. 일반적으로 전력 분배기는 $\lambda/4$ 전송선로를 이용하기 때문에 인덕터와 커패시터를 사용할 수 있도록 전송선로를 집중소자로 변환해야 한다. 전송선로를 집중소자로 변환하기 위해 한 개의 직렬 인덕터와 두 개의 병렬 커패시터로 등가화하였다. 인덕터는 솔레노이드 형태로 선의 굵기와 솔레노이드의 반지름, 감은수에 변화를 주며 제작하였고, 커패시터는 평행판 커패시터 형태로 넓이에 변화를 주어 제작하였다. 구현된 전력 분배기는 설계 주파수에서 각각의 출력 포트에 -3.30dB, -3.31dB로 전력이 균등분배 되는 특성을 보였고, 반사손실은 -42.36dB, 출력 포트 간의 격리도는 -31.54dB로 설계 조건을 만족하였다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.117-124
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• 2015

In this paper, a new kind of wideband, low-loss composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) and a Wilkinson power divider are presented. The TL is composed of a parallel meander inductor and a series cutting capacitor based on coplanar waveguide (CPW) structure. The power divider is designed by substituting the CRLH-TL into the conventional transmission line. The experiment results show that the TL has a good agreement with the desired results, exhibiting the return losses under 12 dB from 8.4 GHz to 34.4 GHz. The operating frequencies of the power divider are 12.05 GHz to 13.15 GHz and 16.50 GHz to 19.30 GHz, respectively. The 20 dB bandwidths are 8.9 % and 17.9 %, respectively. Typical experimental measurements are conducted and compared with the simulated results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.245-251
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• 2017

The proposed variable pawer divider in this paper is composed of one equal power 2-way Wilkinson power divider, two variable phase shifters with 90-degree phase variation to be connected two output paths of the 2-way power divider, and one branchline coupler to combine output signals of two variable phase shifter. The proposed variable power divider can theoretically have an arbitrary power division ratio ranging from ${\infty}:1$ to ${\infty}:1$ due to 90-degrees phase variation of two phase shifter. The proposed power divider circuit fabricates on laminated TLX-9(h=20 mil, er=2.5; Taconic) with a center frequency of 1.7 GHz. The power division ratio of the fabricated prototype varies from about 1:100 to 200:1, with an input reflection characteristic(S11) of below -16 dB, an insertion loss of about -1.0 dB, and an isolation characteristic of below -17 dB between two output ports in the range 1.65-1.75 GHz.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.578-584
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• 2011

This paper presents the design and measured performances of an unequal dual-band power divider using lumped elements. After the divider is designed using the conventional single band Wilkinson topology with lumped elements, we obtained the dual band characteristics with filter conversion method. This design method has the features of compact size and easy fabrication, because the high impedance transmission line realizes the lumped elements of equivalent circuit. As an example, an 2:1 divider has been designed and measured at 880 MHz and 1650 MHz in order to show the validity of the proposed unequal divider. The measured performances of the unequal power divider agree with the simulation results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.128-134
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a new lumped Wilkinson power divider which is designed to have lower quality-factors in the impedance transformation. Therefore, it can provide wider bandwidth than the conventional one. Moreover, the proposed power divider consists of fewer number of elements so that the circuit size can be further reduced. Simulation results show that the proposed lumped power divider allows a 50% wider bandwidth in the return loss and isolation performance. The conventional and new Wilkinson power was designed and fabricated based on the derived equations at 2.0 GHz. In the measurement, the proposed divider achieved a good performance with an input return loss ($S_{11}$) of -23.0 dB, an isolation ($S_{23}$) of -29.0 dB and an insertion loss ($S_{21}$) of -3.12 dB at the design frequency with wider bandwidth than the conventional one.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.9 s.112
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• pp.811-820
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• 2006

Ultra wideband CPW batons are proposed in this paper. The proposed talons are consisted of ultra wideband multi-stage Wilkinson dividers and 'X'-shaped $180^{\circ}$ out-of-phase generator. Bottom-bridges and via-holes are used to connect CPW ground lines instead of the conventional air-bridges which require troublesome manual working in fabrication with HMIC(Hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuits) substrates. The proposed CPW batons have ultra wideband of 3 or $10(=F_{figh}/F_{low})$ theoretically, the wideband characteristics and S-parameters of the basis Wilkinson divider are directly converted to those of the proposed batons. The proposed batons are so compact and small compared to the conventional Wilkinson batons because no additional area for out-of-phase section is required. So the size of the proposed batons is exactly the same as that of the basis Wilkinson dividers. As examples, 3-stage and 7-stage wideband Wilkinson dividers are converted to the proposed batons. Their measured operating bandwidth are $1\sim3GHz$ and $0.8\sim5GHz$, respectively, with excellent matching, isolation and power division performances. The measured magnitude and phase balance errors are ${\pm}0.5dB\;and\;0.45\;dB,\;and\;{\pm}5^{\circ}\;and\;{\pm}10^{\circ}C$ over $1\sim3GHz\;and\;0.8\sim5GHz$, respectively.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.909-915
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• 2010

In this paper, the unequal power divider based on CRLH (Composite Right/Left-Handed) transmission line with dual-band characteristic is proposed. They consist of dual-band branch line hybrid coupler, the connection between input and isolation port of hybrid coupler and ${\lambda}/4$ impedance transformer. When the transmission line between input and isolation port of hybrid coupler is asymmetrical connected, the divider is obtained the output results of the equal phase and unequal power dividing ratio. The simulation results of the divider represent the power ratio of 0 dB ~ 20 dB. To validate a function of divider, the hybrid coupler and transformer with 880 MHz and 1850 MHz is implemented. As a result, the proposed unequal divider obtains the power ratio of 3.2 dB ~ 8.8 dB at 880 MHz and 2.5 dB ~ 14.0 dB at 1850 MHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.12B
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• pp.1747-1753
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• 2001

This paper describe the design and fabrication of a SMD type Wilkinson power divider for PCS basestation. It has been designed for commercial power amplifier system by HP-ADS and fabricated with the size 0.56 $\times$ 0.35 inches. As a result, the power divider was well-operated in the frequency ranges of 1.75 ∼ 1.98GHz for the application of PCS system. The power divider reveals insertion loss 0.2dB, isolation -19.8dB, amplitude balance 0.02dB, phase balance 0.5o, input and output impedance matching -20.6dB respectively.