• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.413-420
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• 2024

A dual-band bio-implantable compact antenna with a meander-line structure is presented. The proposed meander-line antenna resonates at the industrial, scientific, and medical (2.4 GHz) and wireless medical telemetry (1.4 GHz) bands. The meander-line structure is selected as a radiating patch given its versatile and effective design. With a dimension of only 10 mm × 10 mm × 0.635 mm, the designed antenna is compact. Considering a skin phantom, the proposed antenna was designed, optimized, and simulated. The Rogers RT/duroid 6010 substrate material with high dielectric constant was used to fabricate the meander-line dual-band implantable antenna, which was validated experimentally. The superstrate was made of the same material. Experiments were conducted on skin-mimicking gel. The designed meander-line antenna has a high peak gain of -21 dBi at 2.4 GHz, and its maximum specific absorption rate is compliant with IEEE safety standards.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1611-1618
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• 2017

This paper presents a compact reconfigurable printed monopole antenna, operating in three different frequency bands (2.45 GHz, 3 GHz and 5.2 GHz), depending upon the state of the lumped element switch. The proposed multiband reconfigurable antenna is designed and fabricated on a 1.6 mm thicker FR-4 substrate having a relative permittivity of 4.4. When the switch is turned ON, the antenna operates in a dual band frequency mode, i.e. WiFi at 2.45 GHz (2.06-3.14 GHz) and WLAN at 5.4 GHz (5.11-5.66 GHz). When the switch is turned OFF, it operates only at 3 GHz (2.44-3.66 GHz). The antenna radiates omni-directionally in these bands with an adequate, bandwidth (>10 %), efficiency (>90 %), gain (>1.2 dB), directivity (>1.7 dBi) and VSWR (<2). The fabricated antenna is tested in the laboratory to validate the simulated results. The antenna, due to its reasonably compact size ($39{\times}37mm^2$), can be used in portable devices such as laptops and iPads.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.489-491
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• 2008

A compact dipole antenna for the terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (TDMB) application is presented. The length of the antenna is about $0.06{\lambda}$ at the TDMB resonance frequency of 190 MHz. Miniaturization of the antenna is achieved by using meander structures and lumped elements. The proposed antenna has two resonance frequencies and covers the TDMB band from 174 MHz to 216 MHz in Korea. The antenna has good impedance bandwidth and radiation characteristics for the TDMB. The experimental results of the designed dipole antenna are presented and analyzed.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.344-349
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• 2022

UWB 응용을 위해 스트립이 추가된 직각 삼각형-모양의 다이폴 소자로 구성된 소형 대수 주기 다이폴 배열 (LPDA; log periodic dipole array) 안테나를 제안하였다. 첫째, LPDA 안테나의 폭을 줄이기 위해 기존의 스트립 다이폴 소자 대신에 직각 삼각형-모양 다이폴 소자를 사용하였다. 둘째, 소자 사이의 간격을 줄여 LPDA 안테나의 길이를 줄였다. 마지막으로, 안테나의 폭을 더 줄이기 위해 직각 삼각형-모양 다이폴 소자의 양 팔의 끝에 스트립을 추가하였다. 16개의 다이폴 소자와 4 dBi 이상의 이득을 가지도록 제안된 안테나의 시제품을 FR4 기판에 44mm×30mm 크기로 제작하였다. 제작된 안테나의 전압 정재파비가 (VSWR; voltage standing wave ratio) 2 이하인 주파수 대역은 2.99-14.76 GHz로 UWB 대역을 만족하며, 측정된 이득은 4.0-5.5dBi이고 전후방비는 10 dB 이상이다. 제안된 소형 LPDA 안테나의 길이와 너비는 기존 LPDA에 비해 각각 40.9%와 20.6% 감소하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1777-1782
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• 2016

A compact and broadband balun is designed using a conventional right-handed transmission line (RHTL) and a left-handed transmission line (LHTL) with lumped elements only. The proposed balun maintains a phase difference of $180^{\circ}{\pm}12^{\circ}$ at the output ports for the frequency range of 1.27 GHz-2.69 GHz. Nevertheless, the circuit size is merely $9.5mm{\times}12.7mm$. To verify the performance of the proposed balun, we attached it to a dipole-type antenna and observed that the return loss is greater than 10 dB for the frequency range between 1.86 GHz and GHz. The radiation pattern and peak gain are similar to those of the dipole antenna with a conventional balun.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.43-47
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• 2001

A compact size microstrip antenna element using FR-4 substrate is proposed for use in repeater and base stations. Two stacked patches are aperture-coupled by two split feedlines. Rectangular stubs on the split feedlines are laid under the aperture and have the effect of considerably lowing the magnitude of $S_{11}$ [dB] and broadening impedance bandwidth. The designed structure has been fabricated and measured. Based on 20 dB, the return loss bandwidth is about 16.8% (1.86 GHz~2.20 GHz), which covers the frequency range assigned for IMT-2000 with a large margin. The overall dimension of the proposed antenna structure is 37 mm$\times$41 mm$\times$19mm (very compact). The antenna gain is more than 7.5 dBi over the required frequency range.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2005년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.15 No.1
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• pp.259-264
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• 2005

In this paper, a novel compact microstrip-fed antenna with band-rejection characteristic for wideband applications is proposed. By cutting an L-shaped notch on the radiation patch, the wideband property for the proposed antenna is achieved. In addition, a C-shaped slot is introduced to obtain the band rejection operation of the antenna. The antenna, with very small size of $15.5\times21 mm^2$ including the ground plane, operates over 3.08 to 10.97 GHz and has the rejection band of 5.03 to 5.91 GHz for $S_{11}$ < -10 dB.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 UWB 센서에 응용 가능한 다층기판을 이용한 광대역 특성을 가지는 보우타이 안테나를 설계하였다. 제안된 소형 보우타이 안테나는 2층의 기판으로 설계 및 제작되었으며 전체 안테나의 두께는 4.5mm이다. 제안된 안테나는 보우타이 모양의 방사체와 평면형 발룬으로 구성된다. 설계된 방사체와 발룬의 간단한 연결로 안테나가 설계되도록 하여 다양한 구조로 쉽게 구현 가능하도록 하였다. 제작된 안테나는 6.8~10 GHz의 주파수 범위에서 3~6dBi의 이득을 가졌다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.534-537
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• 2013

A compact monopole antenna excited by a conductor-backed coplanar waveguide (CBCPW) is developed for wireless USB dongle applications. The proposed antenna has a compact dimension of $14mm{\times}47.4mm{\times}3.5mm$, which is suitable for a USB dongle housing. A slotted elliptical patch and a CBCPW with vertical vias are employed to achieve a further size reduction and an improved impedance bandwidth. The measurement result demonstrates that the fabricated antenna resonates from 2.25 GHz to 10.9 GHz, which covers all of the important wireless communication bands, including WiBro (2.3 GHz to 2.4 GHz), Bluetooth (2.4 GHz to 2.484 GHz), WiMAX (2.5 GHz to 2.7 GHz and 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz), satellite DMB (2.605 GHz to 2.655 GHz), 802.11b/g/a WLAN (2.4 GHz to 2.485 GHz and 5.15 GHz to 5.825 GHz), and ultra-wideband (3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz) services. The radiation characteristics of the proposed antenna when attached to a laptop are tested to investigate the influence of the keypad and the LCD panel of the laptop.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2017

In this paper, an asymmetric compact multiband slot antenna is proposed for global positioning system (GPS), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), and wireless area network (WLAN) applications. The top plane, a ground is composed of a rectangular slot with a trapezoidal-like stub, an inverted U-shaped slot at the right side of the rectangular slot, an inverted L-shaped slot at the left side of the rectangular slot, and three stubs. The proposed antenna is fed by an asymmetric cross-parasitic strip on the bottom plane. By properly designing the slots and stubs, four resonant frequency bands are achieved with -10 dB reflection coefficient bandwidths of 50 MHz, 400 MHz, 390 MHz, and 830 MHz in the 1.57 GHz GPS band, 2.4 GHz WLAN band, 3.5 GHz WiMAX band, and 5.5 GHz WLAN bands, respectively. The antenna has a total compact size of $13mm{\times}32mm{\times}0.8mm$. Simulated and measured results indicate that the proposed antenna has sufficient bandwidth and good radiation performance in each band.