• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 춘계종합학술대회 A
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• pp.129-132
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• 2008

The generally six-port phase correlator is comprised of a wilkinson power divider and three $90^{\circ}$ hybrid coupler, got bandwidth performance of less than 10%. in this paper, the six-port phase correlator using two section power divider has 33% bandwidth and external matching hybrid coupler has 15% bandwidth was designed with the center frequency of 2.5GHz. Analysis of the simulation result indicates that RF port and LO port got frequency bandwidth of 13%. Insert loss performance of fabricated six-port phase correlator is incremented, but bandwidth resembles simulation result. And phase tolerance within bandwidth is less than $90^{\circ}$.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• 제61권8호
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• pp.1159-1163
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• 2012

In this paper, a new method is suggested to reduce the size of a wide-band array antenna. The power-divider for the feeding structure is made compact as ${\lambda}/8$ with the help of a novel Metamaterial UWB bandpass filter. This power divider is clearly different from others in that the proposed design uses microstrip structured Composite Right and Left-Handed (CRLH) filters, while others use two dielectric layers or long tapered transmission lines. In order to validate the proposed design method, the circuit and full-wave simulated results of the power divider with the Metamaterial UWB filters are compared to each other, and the Metamaterial properties of the structure are shown with the electric field at the ZOR and dispersion diagram. Furthermore, the antenna performance of the fabricated antenna with the power divider is measured and compared with the prediction. Also, the size reduction effect by the proposed scheme is addressed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.953-958
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• 2006

A compact Wilkinson power divider with meta-material transmission line(MM-TL) is proposed. The divider is designed by adding the MM-TL with $+90^{\circ}$ phases shifting instead of the ${\lambda}_g/4$ with $-90^{\circ}$ phases shifting at a simple Wilkinson power divider. The MM-TL consists of three phase shifter unit cells and each cell has the characteristics of the $30^{\circ}$ phases shilling and 6 mm length. Therefore, the length of ${\lambda}_g/4(210 mm)$ TL with $-90^{\circ}$ phases shifting at a simple Wilkinson power divider can be reduced to 18 mm and the Wilkinson divider is very compact.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.185-189
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• 2017

This paper proposes a low power frequency divider for an integrated CMOS phase-locked loop (PLL). An injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) was designed, along with a current-mode logic (CML) frequency divider in order to obtain a broadband and high-frequency operation. A ring oscillator was designed to operate at 1.2 GHz, and the ILFD was used to divide the frequency of its input signal by two. The structure of the ILFD is similar to that of the ring oscillator in order to ensure the frequency alignment between the oscillator and the ILFD. The CML frequency divider was used as the second stage of the divider. The proposed frequency divider was applied in a conventional PLL design, using a 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process. Simulation shows that the proposed divide-by-two ILFD and the divide-by-eight CML frequency dividers operated as expected for an input frequency of 1.2 GHz, with a power consumption of 30 mW.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2015

In this paper, we derived the design equation and implemented the unequal Gysel power divider that is one external resistors using the ABCD parameters analysis. Conventional unequal Gysel divider is difficult to obtain the characteristics of isolation and return loss at between output ports because it can't select a theoretical value of external resistor. To solve those problems, we design the new unequal Gysel power divider with transmission lines and one external resistor that has the characteristics of conventional unequal Gysel divider. To validate this design method, we simulated and measured an 4: 1 unequal Gysel power divider at the center frequency 1 GHz. The measured performances agreed well with the simulation results.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• 제60권9호
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• pp.1727-1732
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• 2011

In order to realize a high performance(low loss, high isolation) microwave power divider/combiner, we have designed the power combiner/divider precisely in accordance with the different hight of central part. In the case of the high central part of the hight of $h_r$=10.2, a compensating part of the conical line is inserted in the conical conversion transmission line, and in the case of low central part of the hight of $h_r$=5.0, the conical conversion transmission line is remodeled into the 2-stage bend structure. In both case, the reflection characteristics are improved to 30dB over the operating frequency range of 5GHz bandwidth. A resistance is inserted between the peripheral ports so as to try to improve the isolation characteristics of the device. For the 16-divider/combiner, the isolation characteristics are improved to 10dB over the operating frequency range of 5GHz bandwidth.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.107-114
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• 2009

In this paper, high efficiency amplifier configuration is proposed using the reconfigurable power divider. In order to enhance average efficiency of linear power amplifiers for wireless communication, it is required to increase efficiency in low output power region. The proposed power divider operates in two modes, high power mode and low power mode, according to output power. In each mode, it allows impedance matches and low loss, which is made possible by employing two $\lambda/4$ coupled lines and two switches. The fabricated power divider shows the return loss ($S_{11}$) and insertion loss ($S_{21}$) of -16.49 dB and -0.83 dB, respectively, in low power mode. In high power mode, the measured return loss ($S_{11}$) and insertion loss ($S_{31}$) are -16.28 dB and -0.73 dB, respectively. This result successfully demonstrates the reconfigurability of the proposed power divider.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.661-668
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• 2012

A coaxial-cable impedance transformer that can be used in high power and wideband frequency range is an arbitrary impedance transformation ratio by an additional coaxial cable. The coaxial-cable impedance transformer to be 50-${\Omega}$ to 25-${\Omega}$ impedance transformation ratio is easily operated an wideband power divider by connecting two 50-${\Omega}$ lines at 25-${\Omega}$ impedance point. This wideband power divider has a poor output matching characteristic and a poor isolation characteristic between two output ports. In this paper, it proposes a coaxial-cable power divider to be a good output matching and isolation characteristics as it uses the singly terminated filter design theory. The odd-mode operation characteristic of the suggested power divider to use singly terminated low pass filter coefficient due to matching order and ripple value is examined by ADS program. And, it fabricates and measures the operation characteristic of 2-way power divider with 2nd-order and 4th-order matching circuit.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.384-389
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• 2011

This article presents an ultra broadband resistive power divider circuit for smart grid applications. Since the future smart grid system is expected to deploy high speed power line communication, the frequency response of the resitive power divider circuit is naturally of significance. Employing a thin film technology, the resistive power divider was designed, measured, and fabricated. For the circuit design, the conductor-backed coplanar waveguide line was firstly designed and measured. The 3 dB cutoff frequency was 72 GHz and S11 remains <-20 dB upto 70 GHz. The fabricated resistive power divider shows the 3 dB cutoff frequency of 50 GHz. It was experimentally verified that the resistive power divider circuit shows the insertion loss of 6 dB for high-speed input signal (40 Gb/s).

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.105-112
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• 2010

Recently, wireless communication systems have been developed and the circuits which operate with the broad-band for multiband uses were introduced. However, broad-band circuits have problems that inevitably increase the size. Dual-band circuit operates only two frequency, therefore, it will be able to miniaturize through unnecessary decreased elements. The Wilkinson power divider is the one of the most commonly used components in wireless communication system for power division. Nowaday, the Wilkinson power divider is also demanded dual-band. In this paper, I propose miniaturized dual-band Wilkinson power divider operating at 2.45 GHz and 5.2 GHz for IEEE 802.11n standard. Proposed dual-band Wilkinson power divider is used in parallel stub line. The design is accomplished by transforming the electrical length and impedance of the quarter wave sections of the conventional Wilkinson power divider into dual band ${\pi}$-shaped sections.