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High Performance On-Chip Integrable Inductor for RF Applications

  • Lee, J.Y.;Kim, J.H.;Kim, M.J.;Moon, S.S.;Kim, I.H.;Lee, Y.H.;Yook, Jong-Gwan;Kukjin Chun
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.11-14
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    • 2003
  • The high Q(quality factor) suspended spiral inductors were fabricated on the silicon substrate by 3D surface micromachined process. The integration of 2.4GHz VCO has been performed by fabricating suspended spiral inductor of the top of CMOS VCO circuit. The phase noise of VCO integrated MEMS inductor is 93.5 dBc/Hz at 100kHz of offset frequency.

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A Study on the Development of Dual-band PLL Frequency Synthesizer for miniature Repeater (초소형 중계기용 듀얼 밴드 주파수합성기 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 나영수;김진섭;강용철;변상기;나극환
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2003.11c
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    • pp.37-40
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    • 2003
  • The 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ dual-band PLL frequency synthesizer has been developed for applications to the miniature repeater. The miniature dual-band repeater will be used at shopping mall, basements and underground parking lots. The in-loop 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ dual-band PLL frequency synthesizer has been developed by designing Si BJT VCO and PLL loop circuits with Colpitts. The prototype of 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ dual-band PLL frequency synthesizer of size 19${\times}$19${\times}$8(mm) has shown operating frequencies of 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ ranges, RF output of 1dBm(PCS), 1dBm(IMT-2000), phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz(PCS), -95dBc/Hz(IMT-2000) at 10KHz offset, harmonics suppression of -24dB c(PCS), -15dBc(IMT-2000).

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A Study on the GaAs MESFET Mixer for Satellite Communication at Ku-Band (위성통신용 Ku-Band GaAs MESFET 믹서에 관한 연구)

  • Her, Keun;Ryu, Yeun-Gook;Hong, Ui-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.30A no.11
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    • pp.58-65
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    • 1993
  • The Ku-band GaAs MESFET mixer is designed and implemented using the LINMIC+, the microwave CAD simulator. The RF and IF is 14.0GHz and 1.0GHz, respectively. P$_{LO}$ is 0dBm, it can be obtained 5.8dB of the minimum noise figure at 1.4GHz and 5.8dB of the maximum conversion gain at 1.45GHz. Effects of bias and power level of local oscillator frequency are observed and the characteristics are verified.

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Measurement of excited species in discharges using Laser Absorption spectroscopy

  • Sakai, Yosuke
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.07a
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    • pp.5-8
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    • 2000
  • The population density of excited species in dc, rf and laser ablation plume plasmas has been measured using laser absorption spectroscopy. It was shown that, when the plasma was modulated by on and off with, the sensitivity and signal to noise (S/N) ratio became high. For example, the atomic O(3$^{5}$ S$^{o}$ $_2$) Population density, No* in $O_2$/He mixtures was obtained by the highest S/N ratio at a frequency of 2.7kHz. In a 20Torr room air, the lowest No* level to be detectable was shown to be an order of 10$^{7}$ cm$^{-3}$ . The population densities of resonance Ar(1S$_2$) and Xe(1S$_4$) levels were also measured in barrier discharges and laser ablation plasmas.

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Analysis of Phase Noise and BER Characteristics of RF Oscillator on OFDM Wireless Communication Systems (OFDM 무선통신 시스템용 RF발진기의 위상잡음과 BER 관계분석)

  • Yun, Seong-Ha;Rhee, Young-Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.149-152
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    • 2005
  • 본 논문은 디지털 마이크로파 다수 반송파 시스템에 적용되는 고안정 국부발진기의 위상잡음에 대해서 분석하였다. 위상잡음의 영향을 분석하기 위해 Lorantizan모델을 사용하여 위상잡음 분산값을 구하였으며, 기저대역 I, Q채널에서 BER과의 특성을 모의실험 하였다. 시스템에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해서 BER특성을 분석한 결과, 위상잡음에 따라 영향을 많이 받으며, 특히 고차원 변조방식을 가질수록 위상잡음에 더 영향을 많이 받음을 확인하였다. 모의실험결과 BER을 10$^{-5}$을 기준으로 했을 경우, QPSK 변조방식은 분산값에 따라서 대략 4dB, 16-QAM 변조방식은 대략 9dB 정도의 성능차이를 나타내었다.

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Design of a Frequency Oscillator Using A Novel DGS (새로운 DGS 구조를 이용한 주파수 발진기 설계)

  • Joung, Myung-Sup;Kim, Jong-Ok;Park, Jun-Seok;Lim, Jae-Bong;Cho, Hong-Goo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.07c
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    • pp.1955-1957
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents a novel defected ground structure (DGS) and its application to a microwave oscillator. The presented oscillator is designed so as to use the suggested defected ground structure as a feedback loop inducing a negative resistance as well as a frequency-selective circuit. Applying the feedback loop between the drain and the gate of a FET device produces precise phase conversion in the feedback loop. The equivalent circuit parameters of the DGS are extracted by using a three-dimensional EM calculations and simple circuit analysis method. The implemented 1.07 GHz oscillator exhibits 0 dBm output power with over 15% dc-to-RF power efficiency and -106 dBc/Hz phase noise at 100 kHz offset from carrier.

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Design of a PCS Band Linear Power Amplifier Using Feedforward Approach (피드포워드 방식을 이용한 PCS 대역 선형 증폭기의 설계)

  • Kim Yoon-Ho;Jeong Jai-Woong
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.07a
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    • pp.118-123
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    • 2001
  • For multi-carrier communication system, power amplifier generate intermodulation products caused by their nonlinear characteristics. Intermodulation products arised around the carrier frequency cannot be filtered out, operate as noise source for tile adjacent channel and thus degrades the quality of communication. In this paper, the 1850MHz-band RF linear power amplifier has been designed and fabricated with feedforward loop. The error signal loop consists of several key components such as phase shifter and attenuator, subtracter. The proposed Linearizer was tested with two-tone signals separated 10MHz apart at the center frequency of 1850MHz. The experimental results show C/I improvement by 14.5${\~}$20dB over 15dB dynamic range(33${\~}$47.8dBm) which gave IMD of 53.25${\~}$59dBc for the designed LPA.

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Reactive Ion Etching Process of Low-K Methylsisesquioxane Insulator Film (저유전율 물질인 Methylsilsesquioxane의 반응 이온 식각 공정)

  • 정도현;이용수;이길헌;김대엽;김광훈;이희우;최종선
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.173-176
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    • 1999
  • Continuing improvement of microprocessor performance involves in the devece size. This allow greater device speed, an increase in device packing density, and an increase in the number of functions that can reside on a single chip. However this has led to propagation delay, crosstalk noise, and power dissipation due to resistance-capacitance(RC) coupling become significant due to increased wiring capacitance, especially interline capacitance between the metal lines on the same metal level. Becase of pattering MSSQ (Methylsilsequioxane), we use RIE(Reactive ton Etching) which is a good anisotrgpy. In this study, according as we control a flow rate of CF$_4$/O$_2$ gas, RF power, we analysis by using ${\alpha}$ -step, SEM and AFM,

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Plasma Impedance Monitoring with Real-time Cluster Analysis for RF Plasma Etching Endpoint Detection of Dielectric Layers

  • Jang, Hae-Gyu;Chae, Hui-Yeop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2013.08a
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    • pp.123.2-123.2
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    • 2013
  • Etching endpoint detection with plasma impedance monitoring (PIM) is demonstrated for small area dielectric layers inductive coupled plasma etching. The endpoint is determined by the impedance harmonic signals variation from the I-V monitoring system. Measuring plasma impedance has been examined as a relatively simple method of detecting variations in plasma and surface conditions without contamination at low cost. Cluster analysis algorithm is modified and applied to real-time endpoint detection for sensitivity enhancement in this work. For verification, the detected endpoint by PIM and real-time cluster analysis is compared with widely used optical emission spectroscopy (OES) signals. The proposed technique shows clear improvement of sensitivity with significant noise reduction when it is compared with OES signals. This technique is expected to be applied to various plasma monitoring applications including fault detections as well as end point detection.

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An Efficient Focusing Method for High Resolution Ultrasound Imaging

  • Kim Kang-Sik
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.22-29
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    • 2006
  • This paper proposes an efficient array beamforming method using spatial matched filtering for ultrasound imaging. In the proposed method, ultrasound waves are transmitted from an array subaperture with fixed transmit focus as in conventional array imaging. At receive, radio frequency (RF) echo signals from each receive channel are passed through a spatial matched filter that is constructed based on the system transmit-receive spatial impulse response. The filtered echo signals are then summed. The filter remaps and spatially registers the acoustic energy from each element so that the pulse-echo impulse response of the summed output is focused with acceptably low side lobes. Analytical beam pattern analysis and simulation results using a linear array show that the proposed spatial filtering method can provide more improved spatial resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) compared with conventional dynamic receive focusing (DRF) method by implementing two-way dynamically focused beam pattern throughout the field.