• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제39권12호
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• pp.553-558
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 다양한 신호 정합 회로에 사용되는 발룬(balun)을 본드와이어 트랜스포머(bondwire transformer)를 이용하여 제작·측정하였다. 본드와이어 트랜스포머를 이용한 발룬은 적은 도체 및 기관 손실과 높은 공진 주파수 특성으로 광대역 특성과 저 삽입 손실을 구현할 수 있다. 제작·측정 결과, 가용 주파수 8.15∼16.18 GHz에서 삽입 손실의 차이는 0.7 dB 이내이고 위상 차이는 2.5° 이내로 나타났다. 따라서, 제안된 발룬은 혼합기, 증폭기, 안테나의 연결부 등에 사용되어 전체적인 성능향상에 기여할 것으로 기대된다. 또한 제작 공정이 용이하고 크기 면에서도 나선형 구조의 발룬과 비견되기 때문에 다른 능·수동 소자와 함께 온-칩(on-chip)화가 가능할 것으로 예상된다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2008

A novel compact model for a five-port transformer balun is proposed for the efficient circuit design of hybrid balun. Compared to the conventional model, the proposed model provides much faster computation time and more reasonable values for the extracted parameters. The hybrid balun, realized in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS, achieves 2.8 dB higher gain and 1.9 dB lower noise figure than its passive counterpart only at a current consumption of 0.67 mA from 1.2 V supply. By employing the hybrid balun, a differential zero-IF receiver is designed in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS for IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee applications. It is composed of a differential cascode LNA, passive mixers, and active RC filters. Comparative investigations on the three receiver designs, each employing the hybrid balun, a simple transformer balun, and an ideal balun, clearly demonstrate the advantages of the hybrid balun in fully differential CMOS RF receivers. The simulated results of the receiver with the hybrid balun show 33 dB of conversion gain, 4.2 dB of noise figure with 20 kHz of 1/f noise corner frequency, and -17.5 dBm of IIP3 at a current consumption of 5 mA from 1.8 V supply.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1154-1161
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• 2015

This paper presents a semi-lumped balun transformer using conventional PCB process and its design theory and geometry for the maximally flat response and wide bandwidth using magnetically coupled LC resonators. The proposed balun is comprised of two pairs of coupled resonators which share one among three LC resonators. It provides an identical magnitude and phase difference of 180° between two balanced ports with DC isolation and an impedance transformation characteristic. Theoretical design and analysis were performed to optimize the inductance and capacitance values of proposed balun device for obtaining the wide bandwidth and maximally flat response in its pass-band. Three balun transformers with a center frequency of 500 MHz were demonstrated for proving the concept of design proposed. They were fabricated by using lumped chip capacitors and planar inductors embedded into a conventional 4-layered PCB substrate. They exhibited a maximum magnitude difference of 0.8 dB and phase difference within 2.4 degrees.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.86-93
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• 2008

2.4 GHz 대역 완전차동 직접변환 수신기를 위한 저전력, 저잡음, 고선형성을 가지는 새로운 구조의 하이브리드 발룬(Hybrid Balun) 회로를 제안한다. 제안된 하이브리드 발룬은 수동형 트랜스포머(Passive Transformer)와 손실 보상용 보조 증폭기(Loss-compensating Auxiliary Amplifiers)로 구성된다. 트랜스포머와 보상용 증폭기 사이의 신호의 분리와 결합에 대한 설계 이슈들을 제시하였다. $0.18{\mu}m$ 공정으로 제작된 하이브리드 발룬은 수동형 발룬에 비해 2.4 GHz 대역에서 이득은 2.8 dB 높고 잡음지수는 1.9 dB 낮으며, 측정된 IIP3는 +23 dBm 이다. 전체 전력소모는 1.2 V 전원 전압에서 0.67 mA로서 저전력으로 구현되었다. 하이브리드 발룬 기술을 적용하여 설계된 무선센서노드용 CMOS 직접변환 수신기는 수동형 발룬을 사용했을 때 비해 0.82 mW의 추가 전력소모만으로 전체 잡음 지수를 현저히 낮출 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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• 제3C권6호
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• pp.236-240
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• 2003

The UWB UHF coupler for GIS PD detection requires a balun (balance to unbalance transformer) to show its inherent UWB characteristics. In order to reduce the size of the balun and to make it practical in the conventional GIS, a novel tapered coaxial balun with a dielectric was proposed for the UWB UHF coupler. The performance of the proposed balun was verified through a series of simulations, measurements and experiments. As a result, both the conventional balun and the proposed balun, which has a length equal to one third of that of the conventional balun, demonstrated good S11 characteristics, whereas the efficiency of the proposed balun increased as much as about 30% in comparison to the conventional one.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 발룬(Balun) 임피던스 트랜스포머(transformer)를 이용한 새로운 구조의 도허티 증폭기를 설계하였다. 도허티 증폭기의 보조 증폭기는 부하변조를 위해 낮은 출력 영역에서 동작이 되지 않도록 설계되며, 일반적으로 보조 증폭기가 동작하지 않는 경우 증폭기의 출력 임피던스는 개방이 된다고 가정한다. 그러나 실제로 구현된 보조 증폭기의 출력 일피던스는 출력단 정합회로의 임피던스 변환 효과에 의해 개방이 아닌 낮은 임피던스 값을 갖게 된다. 본 논문에서는 상기와 같은 보조 증폭기의 특성을 이용하여 새로운 방식의 푸쉬풀 구조 도허티 증폭기를 설계하였다. 제작된 도허티 증폭기는 2개 반송파의 WCDMA 입력 신호에 대하여 출력전력 40㏈m에서 5㎒ 오프셋 주파수 인접채널 누설전력 비율 －37.3㏈c와 23.7%의 효율 특성을 나타내었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.29-32
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• 2003

The UWB UHF coupler for GIS PD detection needs a balun(balance to unbalance transformer) to show its inherent UWB characteristics. In order to reduce the size of the balun and to make it practical in the conventional GIS, a novel tapered coaxial balun with a dielectric was proposed for the UWB UEIF coupler. The performance of the proposed balun was verified through a series of simulations, measurement and experiments. As results, both the conventional balun and the proposed balun of which length is one third of that of the conventional one showed good S11 characteristics, whereas the efficiency of the proposed balun increased as much as about 30% in comparison with the conventional one.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전기설비전문위원
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• pp.117-120
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• 2004

The UWB UHF coupler for GIS PD detection needs a balun (balance to unbalance transformer) to show its inherent UWB characteristics. In order to reduce the size of the balun and to make it practical in the conventional GIS, a novel tapered coaxial balun with a dielectric was proposed for the UWB UHF coupler. The performance of the proposed balun was verified through a series of simulations, measurement and experiments. As results, both the conventional balun and the proposed balun of which length is one third of that of the conventional one showed good S11 characteristics, whereas the efficiency of the proposed balun increased as much as about 30% in comparison with the conventional one.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1365-1368
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• 2014

A CPW-fed to CPS dipole antenna of triangular loop director by microstrip tapered balun is proposed for dual and wide band operations, in this paper. The proposed antenna is consisted of a CPW-fed to CPS transform, microstrip tapered balun element, CPS dipole driver and triangular loop director. A dual and wide bandwidth of the proposed dipole antenna is realized by introducing the triangular loop director and taper matching element. The operated frequency bandwidth is 1GHz (2.14~3.14 GHz) and 1.9 GHz (4.6~6.5 GHz) to return loss criterion of less than 10 dB. The measured return loss of the proposed antenna showed good results of the dual and wide band operating frequency and the radiation pattern. The proposed antenna is able to support WLAN wireless communications applications.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.23-29
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• 1981

마이크로스트립선로에 슬롯트선로를 결합시켜 평면형 광변역 balun을 설계, 제작하였다. 특히 C-band(4-8 GHz)에서 완전하게 동작시키기 위하여 슬롯트선로의 특성임피던스를 보상하여 주었으며, 이로써 이론치와 일치되는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 즉. 2 : 1의 부하저항에 대하여 Chebyshev 3-section 변환기로 정합회로를 구성한 결과. 3.5GHz∼7.0GHz의 1 -octave 대역에서 1.2 : 1 이하의 V.S.W.R.을 얻었으며 전송손실은 0.9dB까지 측정되었다. 특히 평형출력의 위상차는 180°±5°이내에서 linear 하게 변화하는 특성을 보이고 있다.