• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.256-259
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• 2003

In this paper, a design of multi-layered BPF(bandpass filter) using LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) process by a lumped-elements is proposed for SOP(system-on-a-chip) of wireless communication systems. The proposed BPF improved a characteristic of rejection band to build an attenuation pole caused by structurally adjacent co-inductance and coupling. The simulation data shows a bandwidth of 90MHz from a center frequency of 2.4GHz, a return loss of 27dB, an insertion loss of 3.2dB, and an attenuation of at least 20dBc at $f_0{\pm}250MHz$. Simulations have used serenade circuit simulation and HFSS EM simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.333-337
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• 2003

In this paper, 5.2 GHz WLAN BPF(Band Pass Filter) using LTCC(Low temperature co-firing ceramic) Multilayer technology was simulated and manufactured. A DGS(Defected Ground structure) resonator with spiral ground pattern is used to shorten resonator size and improve circuit Q factor. And the equivalent circuit of BPF was suggested. The measured result shows good agreement with simulated data. Experimental results show the center frequency of 5.25GHz, the insertion loss of 0.14dB, and the 3-dB bandwidth of 350MHz (6%). The center frequency of BPF is 5.25GHz which is available for wireless LAN.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.53 no.9
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• pp.481-487
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• 2004

The Ku band that has been using for the satellite communication and broadcasting would be changed to K/Ka bands. The satellite system requires the antenna structure to fabricate low loss and small antenna that is able to be integrated with other Rf circuits for both Rx and Tx. So we should design it with dual feed antennas at K/Ka bands, high isolation between two different feeds and broadband circular polarization. This paper proposes the LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) process for integration with other Rf circuits and the Axial mode of the helical antenna to satisfy those requirements.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.490-496
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• 1999

The sintering behavior of LTCC (low temperature cofired ceramics) chip couplers was investigated in relation with Ag diffusion at the interface of glass ceramic substrate-Ag electrode. Sintering temperature was in the range of 825$^{\circ}C$-975$^{\circ}C$. The commercial green sheet and silver electrode were used. Below 875$^{\circ}C$ the diffusion of the Ag ion into the substrate and the penetration of glassy phases into the electrode occurred due to an increase of fluidity. Thus the lectrode line was severely deformed and damaged. At 975$^{\circ}C$ the transformation of crystalline phases into glassy phases and the melting of the Ag electrode resulted in the diffusion of the considerable amount of Ag ions.

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.165-168
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• 2002

Accurate circuit simulation models for embedded RF passive components in LTCC provide a way to efficiently design high performance RF modules. Particularly, consideration of unavoidable parasitic components is required certainly. In this study, the parasitic components which is appeared from 3-D structure is considered.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.10 s.101
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• pp.1020-1027
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• 2005

In this paper, economic miniature RF transmitter module for intelligent transportation system(ITS) is described. This module which consists of ASK modulator, frequency synthesizer, power amplifier is operating at 5.8 GHz frequency band and implemented by using LTCC process technique. Thus, ultra small size of 0.8 CC and improved electrical performances has been obtained. From the test results, transmitting characteristics of 10 dBm ouput power and -46 dBc interchannel interference with 1.024 Mbps ASK modulated have been shown. Frequency synthesizer as a transmitting signal source reveals very short locking time of 26 usec and outstanding phase noise of -115 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from 5.8 GHz center frequency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.172-177
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• 2004

In this paper, DGS(Defected Ground Structure) is applied to multi-layer structure using LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics). Sprial DGS is adopted in order for size-reduction and higher quality factor, the multi-layer DGS has the same characteristics as the planar DGS. Multi-layer bandpass filter of new shape is confiured using two multi-layer spiral DGS and is designed with no via-hole for the simple process. 5.25 GHz Wireless LAN bandpass filter is designed and fabricated, the insertion loss of the filter is measured less than 1.5 dB, and the size is 2.0 mm${\times}$1.2 mm${\times}$1.1 mm(L${\times}$W${\times}$H).

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.12
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• pp.128-132
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• 2008

This paper presents a filter design technique with the embedded passive elements using the low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) process. For the high performance and size reduction, the parasitic elements of the proposed multi-layer structure are positively considered by using the proposed circuit transformation procedures. As a result, the compact low ass filter (LPF) not only has at least 50% more compact thickness than other reported compact structures, but also provides ideal LPF response between 0.5GHz and 5GHz.

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.87-96
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• 2000

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.730-738
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• 2009

In this paper, we present a equivalent circuit considered parasitic elements about LTCC multi-layer BPF structure that was studied previously and a process of extraction of the element value using SOC technique. By applying extracted element values to equivalent circuit, 2th LTCC filter was designed and fabricated that was applied to satellite DMB. The filter was fabricated of Dupont951 substrate with relative permittivity of 7.8, the dimension of the fabricated filter is $2.4{\times}3.8{\times}0.378mm^3$. The measurement results indicate 1.4 dB of insertion loss and 32.3 dB of return loss, which are in good agreement with simulated ones.