• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.271-281
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• 2009

This paper presents a novel multiband microstrip-fed right angle slot antenna design technique for multiple independent frequency bands. The new technique uses various slot sizes at various appropriate positions. We first propose a tri-band slot antenna consisting of three right angle slots. Then, a quad-band slot antenna is developed with four right angle slots which achieves slant ${\pm}45^{\circ}$ linear polarization, omnidirectional pattern coverage, good antenna gain, and acceptable impedance bandwidths over all the operating frequency range. Moreover, an open-circuited tuning stub is introduced to achieve good impedance matching. Both proposed antennas are designed on a ground plane of RT/duroid 5880 substrate with a thickness of 1.575 mm. The real measurable results show that the desired frequencies used in wireless communication systems, namely, WLAN and WiMax, are efficiently achieved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 2005

In this paper, the spectral shape invariant real-time voice change method is proposed to change one's voice to mechanical voice. For this purpose, LPC analysis and synthesis is used to maintain the spectraum of voice and the pitch of synthesis speech can be changed freely. In the proposed method, gain matching method is applied to excitation signal generator to make the changed voice natural to hear. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, voice change experiments were conducted. Experimental results showed that original speech signal is changed to the mechanical voice signal in which context of the speaker's voice is conveyed correctly in spite of drastic change of pitch. The system is implemented using TI TMS320C6711DSK board to verify the system runs in real time.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.1331-1339
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• 2006

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to test the effects of infant massage (auditory (mother's voice), tactile/ kinesthetic (massage) and visual (eye to eye contact) stimulation) on weight and height of infant and mother-infant interaction with normal infants over a period of 4 weeks. Method. This study was designed as a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The experimental group infants (aged 2-6 months) participated in one of the infant massage programs at the health district center for 4 weeks. The control group (N=26) was paired with the experimental group (N=26) by matching the infant's age and sex. Infant weight, height, and mother-infant interaction were measured two times and recordings of the mother-infant interaction were done using the video equipment in a room at the health center for 10 minutes. Results. After 4 weeks of massage, there were no significant differences weight gain and height increase between the two groups. Comparison of the total scores for the mother-infant interaction between the two groups showed a significant difference (t=5.21, p=.000). There were also significant differences on maternal response (t=3.78, p=000), infant response (t=5.71, p=000) and dyadic response (t=4.05, p=000) in the mother-infant interaction between the two groups. Conclusion. Overall, the results of this study reassure that infant massage facilitates the mother-infant interaction for infants and mothers who give massage to their baby.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 1999

A single RF transceiver evaluation board have been developed for the purpose of application to the 900MHz band transceiver contained RF-IC chip And environment test was evaluated. The RF-IC chipset includes LNA(Low Noise Amplifier), down-conversion mixer, AGC(Automatic Gain Controller), switched capacitor filter and down sampling mixer. The RF evaluation board for the testing of chipset contained various external matching circuits, filters such as RF/IF SAW(Surface Acoustic Wave) filter and duplexer and power supply circuits. With the range of 2.7~3.3V the operated chip revealed moderate power consumption of 42mA. The chip was well operated at the receiving frequency of 925~960MHz. Measurement result is similar to general RF receiving specification of the 900MHz digital mobile phone.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.7-14
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• 1977

Conventionally, a TIVT has been used for high power amplification in the microwave frequency range. However, an ultra-high-power amplifier in the 2GHz range has successfully been designed and fabricated employing high power transistors developed recently and available commercially. In the design of the amplifier, a balanced-pair configuration is adopted in order to obtain very high microwave power, and a good impedance matching is achieved by making use of microstripline techniques. For the RF power divider as well as combiner, an approach of stripline directional coupler isadopted because of its easiness in fabrication. The coupler so designed and fabricated indicates a satisfactory performance as a quadrature hybrie coupler. Measurements on the amplifier developed for an immediate commercial application also exhibit excellent overall performance characteristics RF power output, 14 watts, gain 14dB, frequency bandwidth, 160MHz, effciency 40%.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.97-103
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• 2013

This paper describes the characteristics of Electronic Throttle Controller (ETC) module in BLDC motor without the hall sensor for detecting a rotor position. The proposed ETC control system, which is mainly consisted of a BLDC motor, a throttle plate, a return spring and reduction gear, has a position sensor with an analogue voltage output on the throttle valve instead of BLDC motor for detecting the rotor position. So the additional commutation information is necessarily needed to control the ETC module. For this, the estimation method is applied. In order to improve and obtain the high resolution for the position control, it is generally needed to change the gear ratio of the module or the electrical switching method etc. In this paper, the 3-phase switching between successive commutations is adapted instead of the 2-phase switching that is conventionally used. In addition, the position control with a variable PI gain is applied to improve a dynamic response during a transient period and reduce vibration at a stop in case of matching position reference. The mentioned method can be used to estimate the commutation state and operate the high-precision position control for the ETC module and the high response characteristics. The validity of the proposed method is examined through the experimental results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.3 s.345
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• pp.68-77
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• 2006

This paper presents a new Design-for-Testability (DfT) circuit for 4.5-5.5GHz low noise amplifiers (LNAs). The DfT circuit measures gain, noise figure, input impedance, input return loss, and output signal-to-noise ratio for the LNA without external expensive equipment. The DfT circuit is designed using 0.18m SiGe technology. The circuit utilizes input impedance matching and DC output voltage measurements. The technique is simple and inexpensive.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.832-835
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• 2017

In this paper, V-band differential low noise amplifier(LNA) using 65-nm CMOS process for high speed wireless data communication is presented. The LNA is composed of 3-stage common-source differential amplifiers with neutralization of feedback capacitances using MOS capacitors and impedance matching utilizing transformers. The fabricated LNA has a peak gain of 23 dB at 63 GHz and 3 dB bandwidth of 6 GHz. The chip area of LNA is $0.3mm^2$ and the LNA consumes 32 mW DC power from 1.2 V supply voltage.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.278-285
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• 2000

This paper presents the basic characteristics of the beam tilting dipole antenna element in which one reactance element is used for the impedance matching at the feed point. The radiation pattern is tilted by the properly determined driving point position, and the loading reactance is used to obtain forced resonance without great changes in tilt angle. The numerical results demonstrate that the reactance element should be loaded in the region where the driving point is placed to obtain forced resonance of the antenna with little changes in beam tilt angle. In case the proposed forced resonant beam tilting antenna with $0.8\lambda$ length is driven at $0.2\lambda$ from the center, the main beam tilt angle o.5 57.7 degrees, the highest power gain of 8.6 dB are obtained.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.540-545
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• 2015

This paper presents the design, fabrication and measurement results of a S-band internally-matched power amplifier using Gallium Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistor(GaN HEMT) die. In order to fabricate the S-band internally-matched power amplifier, a high dielectric substrate and alumina were used for input/output matching circuits. The measured output power is 55.4 dBm, the drain efficiency is 78 % and the power gain is 11 dB under pulse operation at the frequency of 3 GHz.