• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.11
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• pp.48-53
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• 2007

In this paper, a high LO-RF isolation W-band MIMIC single-balanced mixer was designed and fabricated using a branch line coupler and a ${\lambda}/4$ transmission line. The W-band MIMIC single-balanced mixer was designed using the $0.1\;{\mu}m$ InGaAs/InAlAs/GaAs Metamorphic HEMT diode. The fabricated MHEMT was obtained the cut-off frequency($f_T$) of 154 GHz and the maximum oscillation frequency($f_{max}$) of 454 GHz. The designed MIMIC single-balanced mixer was fabricated using $0.1\;{\mu}m$ MHEMT MIMIC process. From the measurement, the conversion loss of the single-balanced mixer was 12.8 dB at an LO power of 8.6 dBm. P1 dB(1 dB compression point) of input and output were 5 dBm and -8.9 dBm, respectively. The LO-RF isolations of single-balanced mixer was obtained 37.2 dB at 94 GHz. We obtained in this study a higher LO-RF isolation compared to some other balanced mixers in millimeter-wave frequencies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.66-70
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• 2003

In this paper a plannar singly balanced diode Miter for 24GHz band application is designed and implemented using a microstrip line and two schottky barrier beam lead mixer diodes. The implemented mixer have a conversion loss of 6 [dB], LO/RF isolation of 23 [dB], input 1dB compression point of 4 [dBm]. this diode mixer would be useful for homedyne radar.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.84-90
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• 2010

In this paper, a novel voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using the harmonic control circuit based on the composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission lines (TLs) is presented to reduce the phase noise without the reduction of the frequency tuning range and miniaturize the circuit size. The phase noise is reduced by the novel harmonic control circuit having the short impedances for the second- and third-harmonic components. The proposed harmonic control circuit is designed by using the CRLH TLs with the dual-band characteristic by the frequency offset and phase slope of the CRLH TLs. The high-Q resonator has been used to reduce the phase noise, but has the problem of the frequency tuning range reduction. However, the frequency tuning range of the proposed VCO has not been reduced because the phase noise has been reduced without the high-Q resonator. The miniaturization of the circuit size is achieved by using the CRLH TLs instead of the conventional right-handed (RH) TLs. The phase noise of VCO is -119.17 ~ -117.50 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz in the tuning range of 5.731 ~ 5.938 GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.1A
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• pp.85-90
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• 2008

Effects of the emitter degeneration on linearity have been investigated in SiGe HBT double-balanced up-converters with the Gilbert-cell structure. The emitter-coupled degeneration resistors have been optimized for high P1-dB and IP3 through the nonlinear harmonic-balance simulation. Two types of up-converter MMICs fabricated in $0.35{\mu}m$ Si-BiCMOS process were measured to verify the simulation results. The up-converter without the degeneration resistors produces a P1-dB of -13 dBm with an OIP3 of 3.7 dBm, while the up-converter with the degeneration resistors produces a P1-dB of -10 dBm with an OIP3 of 8.7 dBm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1085-1091
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• 2001

이 논문에서는 주기적인 특성을 가진 펄스 열들이 서로 다른 초기 위상을 가지고 수신기에 입력되었을 때 도래시간 차이를 이용하여 펄스 열을 분리하는 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 주기적인 펄스 열을 주파수 관점에서 고찰해 보면 하나의 펄스 열 주파수 값으로 특성 지울 수 있으며 이러한 성질은 다중의 펄스 열이 포함된 신호 환경 하에서도 동일하게 나타난다. 제안된 기법은 기존의 스펙트럼 영역에서 사용된 신호 도래 시간의 지수함수로의 매핑을 대신하여 신호 도래 시간 차이를 이용하였으며 실제 다중 환경에서 나타날 수 있는 신호 성분들의 펄스 열 주파수 추정을 위하여 기존의 방법과 비교함으로써 제시한 방법의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1235-1239
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• 2010

In this work, a wideband technique has been proposed that improves the IF bandwidth of mixers and a 24-GHz down-conversion mixer employing the proposed technique has been designed and fabricated based on 0.13-${\mu}m$ RFCMOS technology. The mixer showed the conversion gain of $2.7{\pm}1.5$ dB from DC to 5.25 GHz IF for a fixed LO frequency of 24 GHz. Measured P-1dB and LO-RF isolation was -8.7 dBm and 21 dB, respectively. The mixer draws DC current of 10.6 mA from 1.3 V supply.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8A
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• pp.1417-1427
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 밀리미터파를 이용하여 사용자에게 양방향 무선 멀티미디어의 구현을 가능케 하는 LMDS 송수신 모듈을 설계, 구현하였다. 제작된 LMDS 송수신 모듈은 신서사이져, 혼합기, 저잡음 증폭기, 고출력 증폭기, 듀플렉서 등으로 구성하였으며, 전체적으로는 전원부와 제어부를 통하여 이상여부를 감시하며, 송수신 모듈에 이상이 발생했을 때 이를 보호할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 여기서 DAVIC 표준에 맞도록 IF부 대역은 0.95∼1.45GHz의 500MHz 대역폭에서 동작하도록 제작하였고, 상하향 혼합기는 격리도 특성을 최대화하였으며, 이를 위해 하이브리드 링형을 이용한 다이오드 평형 구조를 적용하여 설계하였다. 혼합기로 주입되는 Local 주파수는 안정도가 높아야 함으로 유전체 공진형 발진기로 구현하였다. 또한 저잡음 증폭기와 고출력 증폭기는 정보통신부에서 공고한 3사 주파수 대역을 모두 수용할 수 있도록 24GHz∼26.5GHz의 대역에서 정상적인 동작을 할 수 있도록 설계하였으며, 특히 저잡음 증폭기는 잡음 환경에서 작은 신호를 손실 없이 얻을 수 있도록 잡음지수를 최소화하고, 30dB 이상의 충분한 이득이 구현되도록 하였다. 고출력 증폭기는 15dBm 이상의 출력을 송신하면서도 선형성에 문제가 없도록 혼변조왜곡(IMD) 특성을 고려하여 설계하였다. 그리고 듀플렉서는 우수한 주파수 선택도와 낮은 삽입손실 특성을 갖도록 송수신 필터 모두 5개의 공진기를 포함한 Chebyshev형 구조를 갖으며 생산성이 뛰어난 모노리딕형으로 구현하여, LMDS 송수신 성능을 구현하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.90-98
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• 1999

This paper presents a wideband single-balanced mixer using a diode which can be used in RF receiver of microwave measurement systems. For wideband characteristic, local oscillator(LO) signal is provided to diode with low loss using a coplanar waveguide-to-slotline balun. For high isolation characteristic radio frequency (RF) port and intermediate frequency (IF) port are designed using directional coupler. This mixer presents 30.5~31.17dB conversion loss whose flatness is within 1dB for 9 kHz~2.6 GHz wideband RF signal, and above 30 dB isolation for LO signal.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.1335-1340
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• 2003

In this paper, a single balanced diode Mixer for the homodyne FMCW radar to detect distance and velocity of a vehicle target is designed and implemented using a microstrip line and two schottky barrier beam lead diodes. This mixer is optimally designed to have less a conversion loss within the 100 MHz bandwidth with a little LO injection power and a higher LO isolation as soon as possible through the embedded electrical length of microsrtrip line placed between the coupler and diode matching, considering together LO matching condition. The measured results show 6 dB of conversion loss, 23 dB LO/RF isolation and 3 dBm of input 1l dB, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.227-231
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• 2004

A MMIC (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit) mixer chip using the schottky diode of InGaAs/CaAs p-HEMT process has been developed for receiver down converter of Ka-band. A different approach of MMIC mixer structure is applied for reducing the chip size by the exchange of ports between IF and LO. This MMIC covers with RF (30.6∼31.0㎓)and IF (20.8∼21.2㎓). According to the on-wafer measurement, the MMIC mixer with miniature size of 3.0mm1.5mm demonstrates conversion loss below 7.8㏈, LO-to-RF isolation above 27㏈, LO-to-IF isolation above 19㏈ and RF-to-IF isolation above 39㏈, respectively.