• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.186-189
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• 2010

Reflection(R($\omega$)), transmission(T($\omega$)) and loss(L($\omega$)) characteristics of multi-layer metamaterials are investigated experimentally in free space with the incident EM waves perpendicular to the substrate plane. The sample is made of split-ring resonators(SRRs) and wires which are the typical model of metamaterials. The R($\omega$) and T($\omega$) of multi-layer metamaterials have been calculated from the measured S-parameters. In this paper, we got the impedance-matched result according to the curves of R($\omega$), meanwhile the T($\omega$) decreased with increasing number of layers. At last, we attained the result that the L($\omega$) gets to nearly 98% around 8 GHz, with R($\omega$)=T($\omega$)=0. The design presented in this paper achieves experimented loss near unity.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.763-771
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• 2013

In this paper, the propagation characteristics for ISM(Industrial Scientific and Medical) and TVWS(TV White Space) in indoor building environment are analyzed in comparison with theoretical and experimental results, the excellent propagation characteristics of the TVWS is confirmed. To this end, signals which have center frequencies of 503 MHz and 2.4 GHz are generated in building propagation environment. Through that, received power strength is measured according to the location and measured path loss is analyzed. Theoretical path loss is calculated using Hata, Extended Hata, Extended Hata SRD, ITU-R P.1238 and reliability for channel model in indoor environment is analyzed.

• 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.15 no.3
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• pp.301-310
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• 2004

In this paper, a compact dual-mode filter structure without coupling gaps is proposed. The novel design is achieved by embedding a pair of equal crossed slots and spur-lines. Without coupling gaps between feed lines and patch resonator, the new filter can provide low insertion loss. It is found that this design has wide coupling range for dual-mode operation. It means that these characteristics of the proposed filter can reduce uncertainty in fabrication. By using two PIN diodes mounted inside a pair of spur-lines, the proposed structure works as a switchable filter. Also, it has a size reduction of about 34.7 %, compared with conventional dual-mode filters.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.83-90
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• 2011

In this paper, we present the design method for a low-pass type inverter, which can effectively suppress the spurious response associated with band-pass filters. The inverter has a length of ${\lambda}/4$ and employs not only a stepped-impedance configuration but also asymmetrical and bending structures in order to improve frequency selectivity and compactness. The inverter is applied as an impedance/admittance inverter to the ultra-wideband (UWB) band-pass filter. The UWB band-pass filter configuration is based on a stub band-pass filter consisting of quarter-wavelength impedance inverters and shunt short-circuited stubs ${\lambda}/4$ in length. The asymmetrical stepped-impedance low-pass type inverter improves not only the spurious responses, but also the return loss characteristics associated with a UWB band-pass filter, while a compact size is maintained. The UWB band-pass filter using the proposed inverters is fabricated and tested. The measured results show excellent attenuation characteristics at out-band frequencies, which exceed 18 dB up to 39 GHz. The insertion loss within the pass-band (from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz) is below 1.7 dB, the return loss is below 10 dB, and the group delay is below 1 ns.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.487-493
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• 2001

In this paper, A new microstrip bandpass filter is proposed. The novelty of the proposed structures is to use a interdigital capacitor and embeded slot that are fanned on a patch resonator such that its insertion loss and size can be significantly reduced simultaneously. As a result, it is found that the resonant frequency of patch filter designed at 5 GHz is decreased to 1.8946 GHz and the insertion loss is reduced from -2.168 dB to -0.379 dB. This proposed filter has small size and low insertion loss in comparison with the conventional parallel edge coupled bandpass filter.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.34-41
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• 2011

This paper proposes a systematic design for a precoding codebook for a transmit-ing space-division multiple access (TN-SDMA) sharing spectrum with existing fixed wireless service (FWS). Based on an estimated direction angle of a victim FWS system, an interfering transmitter adaptively constructs a codebook, forming a transmit in the direction angle, while satisfying orthogonal beamforming constraints. Sum throughput results indicate that the throughput loss of TN-SDMA relative to a practical SDMA, called per user unitary and rate control ($PU^2RC$), is lower at larger number of transmission antennas, lower signal-to-noise ratio, or a smaller number of users. In particular, a small loss (12% throughput loss) is provided for practical system parameters. Spectrum sharing results confirm that TNSDMA efficiently shares spectrum with FWS systems by reducing protection distance to more than 66 %. Although a TN-SDMA system always has lower throughput compared to $PU^2RC$ in non-coexistence scenarios; it offers an intriguing opportunity to re-use a spectrum already allocated to an FWS.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.316-321
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• 2010

This paper presents a novel fourth harmonic mixer with new structure. The traditional 3-ports fourth harmonic mixer and the novel fourth harmonic mixer are designed by ADS, HFSS and CST simulator. The mixers have been fabricated and tested. The size of the traditional 3-ports fourth harmonic mixer is $12{\times}15$ mm, and the best conversion loss is 18.7 dB according to the measurement. Since the traditional 3-port mixer size is too large to be ranked, we design a novel fourth harmonic mixer for imaging system. The width of the mixing module in the novel fourth harmonic mixer is only 3.65 mm, and this size is fully capable to meet the mixer unit space which is not greater than 5 mm. The simulation result shows that the mixer has good performance, and the experiment result shows that the best conversion loss of the novel fourth harmonic mixer is 16.3 dB at RF signal of 91.3 GHz.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.411-414
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• 2014

A switch is one of the most useful circuits for controlling the path of signal transmission. It can be added to digital circuits to create a kind of gate-level device and it can also save information into memory. In RF subsystems, a switch is used in a different way than its general role in digital circuits. The most important characteristic to consider when designing an RF switch is keeping the isolation as high as possible while also keeping insertion loss as low as possible. For high isolation, we propose leakage signal cancellation and inductive switching for designing a singlepole double-throw (SPDT) RF switch. By using the proposed method, an isolation level of more than 23 dB can be achieved. Furthermore, the heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) process is used in the RF switch design to keep the insertion loss low. It is demonstrated that the proposed RF switch has an insertion loss of less than 2 dB. The RF switch operates from 1 to 8 GHz based on the $0.18-{\mu}m$ SiGe HBT process, taking up an area of $0.3mm^2$.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 1995

In this paper, a design method of multiple n-way low loss power divider for x-band is propossed. To decrease loss, only two-stages of transmission lines are used with isolation resistors for match. Ex- perimental results for 3-way and 4-way power dividers have the divided power of 5.54~6.17dB and 6.76~7.37 dB, the return loss of more than 17dB and 12dB, and the isolation of more than 18dB and 10dB at center frequency, respectively, The measured results show good agreement with the theoretical analysis.