• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2024

In order to avoid the high observability due to the cavity resonance or electromagnetic wave leakages from the bridge of a battleship or the cockpit of an aircraft, this paper presents a transparent conductive oxide coated structure to prevent the incoming/outgoing electromagnetic waves. Currently, most of the RCS reduction technologies were focused on radar absorbing material such as paints based on conductive or magnetic materials in the fuselage, and there is not much research on countermeasures for achieving the low observability of materials that required optical transparency in actual weapon systems. In this study, the transmission/reflection and absorption performance of the ITO coated structure according to the change of the surface resistance of the transparent conductor were analyzed. Finally, the relationship between the electromagnetic and optical characteristics was established through fabrication and measurement.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.328-336
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• 2020

This paper presents an asymptotic analysis method using the PO(physical optics) approximation technique to analyze the scattering contribution of an electrically large object partially coated with a radar absorbing material(RAM). By using the feature of the PO technique that can calculate the equivalent current value for each mesh independently, instead of analyzing the entire structure, scattering analysis was performed only by calculating the current on the area where the RAM coating is applied. By the numerical examples, the accuracy and the computation time of the proposed method were verified, and the computational efficiency of inverse synthetic aperture radar(ISAR) of the electrically large objects that require enormous resources is improved.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2018

UCAV는 적진 중심으로의 침투, 공격 등 적대적 상황에서 임무를 수행하는 것을 목표로 한다. 일차적으로 적의 레이더에 포착되지 않아야 하므로 RF 스텔스 기술의 적용이 필수적이다. 최신 RCS 저감 기술이 적용된 대표적인 비행체로는 Blended Wing Body 형태의 X-47B UCAV이다. 본 연구에서는 X-47B와 유사한 모델 UCAV 형상을 설계한 다음, Ray Launching Geometrical Optics(RL-GO) 기법을 활용하여 모델 UCAV의 고주파수 영역에서의 RCS 특성을 분석하였다. 특히 IR 저감이 고려된 UCAV 형상이 RCS에 미치는 영향성을 조사하였다. 마지막으로 모델 UCAV의 공기 흡입구에 최적화된 RAM을 적용하였을 때의 RCS 변화를 분석하였다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2012

In this study, we investigated the effect of groove pattern and gap-fill with lossy materials at 15 GHz frequency of Ku-band. We used Epoxy/MWCNT composite materials as gap-fill materials. Although epoxy does not have an absorbance capability, epoxy added conductive fillers, which are multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), can function as radar absorbing material. Specimens were fabricated with different MWCNT mass fractions (0, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 wt%) and their permittivity in the Ku-band was measured using the waveguide technique. We investigated the effect of gap-fill on monostatic RCS by calculating RCS with and without gap-fill. For arbitrarily chosen thickness and experimentally obtained relative permittivity, we chose the relative permittivity of MWCNT at 2 wt% (${\varepsilon}_r$=8.8-j2.4), which was the lowest reflection coefficient for given thickness of 3.3 mm at V-pol. and $80^{\circ}$ incident angle. We also checked the monostatic RCS and the field intensity inside the groove channel. In the case of H-pol, gap-fill was not affected by the monostatic RCS and magnitude was similar with or without gap-fill. However, in the case of V-pol, gap-fill effectively reduced the monostatic RCS. The field intensity inside the groove channel reveals that different RCS behaviors depend on the wave polarizations.