• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.22-28
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• 2008

비 정렬된 입출력단자를 갖는 능동 방향성 결합기에서 최대 전력결합 특성을 얻기 위한 새로운 설계조건을 제안하였다. 제안한 설계방법의 타당성 및 정확성을 분석하기 위하여 불연속 입출력 경계면에서 발생하는 반사감도를 고려한 새로운 결합효율을 정의하였다. 분석 결과, 지금까지 방향성 결합기를 설계하기 위하여 사용되어 왔던 위상정합조건과 최소간격조건들은 불연속 특성과 이득을 갖는 능동 방향성 결합기의 설계조건에 적합하지 않으며, 새로운 전력 등가분배조건이 필요함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2013

Modern integrated circuits (ICs) are becoming an integrated parts of analog, digital, and radio frequency (RF) circuits. Testing these RF circuits on a chip is an important task, not only for fabrication quality control but also for tuning RF circuit elements to fit multi-standard wireless systems. In this paper, RF test circuits suitable for embedded testing are introduced: RF power detectors, power control circuits, directional couplers, and six-port reflectometers. Various types of embedded RF power detectors are reviewed. The conventional approach and our approach for the RF power control circuits are compared. Also, embedded tunable active directional couplers are presented. Then, six-port reflectometers for embedded RF testing are introduced including a 77-GHz six-port reflectometer circuit in a 130 nm process. This circuit demonstrates successful calibrated reflection coefficient simulation results for 37 well distributed samples in a Smith chart. The details including the theory, calibration, circuit design techniques, and simulations of the 77-GHz six-port reflectometer are presented in this paper.