• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 높은 주파수에서 이미지신호에 따른 하향변환기의 선현성을 우수하게 나타내기 위하여 이미지 제거 특성이 우수한 능동소자를 선택하여 VSAT 위성통신용 Ka-band 하향변환기를 설계 및 제작하였다. 하향변환기의 구성은 저잡음 증폭기단, 이미지 제거 필터, 주파수 혼합기, 주파수 체배기, 전압제어 감쇄단 및 IF단으로 구성하였고, RF 경로의 동작 유무를 판단하기 위하여 국부 루프 경로로 구성되어 있다. 하향변환기의 이득은 $11.73{\sim}13.23dB$, 잡음지수 4.4dB 이하, 50dBc 이상의 이미지 제거 특성을 나타내어, 본 논문에서 제작한 하향변환기는 고속/광 대역폭을 가지는 디지털 통신 시스템에도 적용할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.228-231
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 K-band SMDS용 하향변환기를 설계 및 제작하였다. SMDS용 하향변환기는 입력신호 주파수 19.2㎓~20.2㎓에 대한 3단 저잡음 증폭기, 대역통과필터, 18.25㎓의 국부발진기, 및 IF단으로 구성하였고 3단 저잡음 증폭기의 이득은 28dB를 나타내었다. 국부 발진기는 고안정 특성을 위하여 유전체 공진 발진기로 구성하여 주파수 18.25㎓에서 0.5dBm의 출력전력을 나타냈으며, 19.2㎓~20.2㎓의 RF신호를 드레인형 FET믹서에 인가하였을 때 950MHz ~1950MHz 범위에서 변환이득은 5dB를 나타내었다. 본 논문에서 국내 K-band 위성인터넷을 위한 하향변환기의 규격을 만족시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.840-845
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• 2013

In this paper, the broadband frequency double down-converter based on LC filter technologies has been designed and implemented, and its performances are introduced. The Designed frequency double down-converter is consisted with a low-noise amplifier, mixer, IF amplifier, LC filter, DC-block capacitor and RF-bypass capacitor. Especially, instead of active devices of a typical converter, the suggested converter designed using passive devices to provide both low-power consumption and low-cost model. As results of the measurement, the implemented frequency double down-converter realizes the broadband performance with the bandwidth of 100MHz (13~113MHz) at the center frequency of 63MHz, and its gain is approximately 40dB.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.801-807
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• 2012

In this paper, design and implementation of frequency down converter based on LC filter technic. Single frequency down converter, designed a low-noise amplifier, mixer, IF amplifier, LC filter was configured. And it is composed of DC block capacitors and RF bypass capacitor. LC filter, replace it with the IC reduced the power and realized low cost. The gain of single down converter is about 10dBm and realized by 18MHz bandwidth at 70MHz band.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2016

In this paper, a Multi-Band Ku-band down converter was designed for reception of multi-band digital satellite broadcasting. The Multi-band low-nose down converter was designed to form four local oscillator frequencies (9.75, 10, 10.75 and 11.3GHz) representing a low phase noise due to VCO-PLL with respect to input signals of 10.7 to 12.75GHz and 3-stage low noise amplifier circuit by broadband noise matching, and to select an one band of intermediate frequency (IF) channels by digital control. The developed low-noise downconverter exhibited the full conversion gain of 64dB, and the noise figure of low-noise amplifier was 0.7dB, the P1dB of output signal 15dBm, and the phase noise -73dBc@100Hz at the band 1 carrier frequency of 9.75GHz. The low noise block downconverter (LNB) for receiving four-band digital satellite broadcasting designed in this paper can be used for satellite broadcasting of vessels navigating international waters.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.115-122
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• 2016

In this paper, wideband Ku-band downconverter was designed to receiver digital satellite broadcasting. The low-nose downconverter was designed to form four local oscillator frequencies(9.75, 10, 10.75 and 11.3 GHz) representing a low phase noise due to VCO-PLL with respect to input signals of 10.7 to 12.75 GHz and 3-stage low noise amplifier circuit by broadband noise matching, and to select intermediate frequency bands by digital control. The developed low-noise downconverter exhibited the full conversion gain of 64 dB, and the noise figure of low-noise amplifier was 0.7 dB, the P1dB of output signal 15 dBm, and the phase noise -85 dBc@10kHz at the band 1 carrier frequency of 9.75 GHz. The low noise block downconverter(LNB) for wideband digital satellite broadcasting designed in this paper can be used for global satellite broadcasting LNB.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.1143-1150
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• 2001

In this paper, we designed a downconverter for K-band satellite multipoint distribution service(SMDS). The designed downconverter consists of a low noise amplifiers, bandpass filter, stable local oscillator, drain mixer and If Amplifiers. Low noise amplifiers show 28㏈ gain and 1.5㏈ noise figure in the frequency range of 19.2㎓~20.2㎓, and a band pass filter has a -l㏈ insertion loss, and 18.25㎓ Stable local oscillator which is dielectric resonant oscillation, We obtained that the output power of the 18.25㎓ oscillation frequency is 0.5㏈m and the phase noise is the -84.67㏈c at 10KHz offset frequency. With the input RF signal the 19.2㎓~20.2㎓, conversion gain of the drain mixer shows 5㏈ at the Intermediate frequency range of 950MHz~1950MHz. We have proved that the designed downconverter satisfied the specification of a K-band satellite multipoint distribution service and it can be applied to the satellite internet receiver.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.665-667
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• 2010

In this paper, the method to detect the IM(Inter Modulation) components of power amplifier is proposed by using frequency down-convertor. Output signals of power amplifier which is coupled by 20dB coupler and divided by power divider are applied to RF and LO of the frequency converter. It could be found the magnitude of IM components of power amplifier as a converted DC voltage which is come from the difference between 3th and 5th IM component. The detected DC voltage values are changed from 0.72V to 0.9V when 3rd IM component level changed from -26.4dBm to +2.15dBm and 5th IM component level changed from -34.2dBm to -12.89dBm as the Vgs of 3W power amplifier is changed.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.427-432
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• 2017

This study describes the design and implementation of SHF band Downconverter Digital Satellite Communication. The SHF band Downconverter unit consists of PLDRO and Frequency converter. In Frequency converter, microstrip BPF and LPF designed through the pre EM simulation are implemented to minimize the unwanted spurious in Frequency converter. Through the pre-simulation analysis of space environment, the possibility of and minimized about the malfunction of equipment and we designed a reliable SHF band Downconverter through simulation for a TID according to the vibration generated during the launch and space radiation environment, and compared pre-simulation of main performance results to test results about main performances of SHF band Downconverter after production.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.213-217
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 CPW 구조를 이용하여 60 GHz 무선 시스템 응용을 위한 V-band용 하향 주파수 혼합기를 설계 및 제작하였다. 하향 주파수 혼합기의 설계 및 제작에 있어서 GaAs PHEMT(Pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor)를 기반으로 하였으며, 회로설계를 위해 coplanar waveguide(CPW) 라이브러리를 구축하여 이용하였다. 제작된 하향 주파수 혼합기의 변환이득은 국부발진주파수(LO) 입력이 8 dBm일 때 -8.5 dB의 최대 변환이득 특성을 얻었으며 Pl dB는 -3.3 dBm을 얻었다. 제작된 회로의 칩 크기는 1.6$\times$l.6 $\textrm{mm}^2$ 이다.