• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.343-346
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• 2003

A new structure to design low pass filters (LPFs) is presented rho proposed structure has the etched shape of Quad-Spiral DGS(Defected Ground Structure) on microstrip transmission lines. By extracting the equivalent circuit elements of unit Quad-Spiral DGS, LPFs are designed easily. The equivalent circuit of Quad-Spiral DGS consists of a step impedance resonator and lumped elements. The proposed LPF provided steep rejection characteristics with 5-poles. Experimental results show excellent agreements with circuit simulation results in wide band and the validity of our circuit modeling for LPF design. The result shows another possibility of Quad Spiral DGS for microwave devices.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.904-911
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• 2003

A new method to reduce the size of microwave amplifiers spiral-shaped defected ground structure(Spiral-DGS) is proposed. A microstrip line having Spiral-DGS on the ground plane produces increased slow-wave factor and electrical length for the fixed physical length. In addition, it provides an excellent rejection characteristic for a finite frequency band like band rejection filters. The rejection band is used for rejecting harmonic components of amplifiers. The reduced microstrip line lengths in matching networks by Spiral-DGS are 39 % and 44 % of the original ones in input and output matching networks, respectively. It is shown that the measured S-parameters of the reduced amplifier agree well with those of the original amplifier. The measured second harmonic of the reduced amplifier is much less than that of the original amplifier by at least 10 dB. The same technique is applied to reject the third harmonic using the proper Spiral-DGS for the third harmonic frequency. The measured third harmonic is smaller than that of the original amplifier by 25 dB.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.176-179
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 접지면에 스파이럴 형태로 식각된 패턴을 갖는 DGS (Defected Ground Structure) 전송선로가 제시되었다. 제시된 스파이럴 DGS 회로에 대한 새로운 등가회로 모델을 제안하였고 등가회로의 각 파라미터는 EM-시뮬레이션과 DGS의 공진 특성 조건식으로부터 유도하였다. 스파이럴 DGS의 등가회로는 λ/2 단락 전송선로와 병렬로 연결된 인턱터로 구성된 비교적 간단한 구조로 제시되었다. 등가회로의 각 파라미터를 추출하고 기존의 아령 형태의 DGS 회로와 특성을 비교하여 장단점에 따른 그 응용성을 고찰하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.8 s.111
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• pp.725-731
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• 2006

A novel design of frequency multiplier using a feedforward technique and a defected ground structure(DGS) is proposed. The feedforward loop in the proposed frequency multiplier suppresses the fundamental component $(f_0)$, the dumb-bell or spiral shaped DGS diminish unwanted harmonics such as second, third and fourth. Due to the combination of the feedforward structure and the DGS, only the multiplied frequency component$(2f_0,\;3f_0,\;4f_0)$ appears at the output port and the other unwanted components are suppressed excellently. The frequency multiplier is designed at 1 GHz $(f_0)$, by the proposed technique and measured. The measured output power of $2f_0,\;3f_0$ and $4f_0$ is -2.59 dBm, -5.36dBm and -4.57dBm, respectively, when the input power is 0dBm.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.403-408
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• 2004

We suggest new attenuator design and formula using quad spiral shaped defected ground structure (DGS). Series resistors and quarter wavelength transmission line that has a role of inverter have been synthesized for attenuator design and novel attenuator structure using quad spiral shaped DGS is fabricated, the measurements show good agreement with theoretical anticipations. The suggested attenuator could remove peak of insertion loss graph through various attenuation method. The various attenuations are obtained by attached pin-diodes, 10-15dB attenuation leveling is realized for validity of suggested design.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.11
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• pp.2242-2246
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• 2009

In this paper, a homogeneous dual composite right/left-handed (D-CRLH) transmission line (TL) is proposed by using a defected ground structure (DGS) on the ground plane. In order to satisfy a homogeneity condition of metamaterial, a subwavelength unit cell is designed by way of a spiral DGS and a meander stub. From a dispersion diagram, it is expected that the frequency bands for the left-handed (LH) property is 3.5 - 4.4 GHz. At 3.8 GHz in the LH band, backward propagating phenomenon is observed from full-wave analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed TL has a stop-band in 1.75 - 3.6 GHz.

• 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).

• 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 Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.537-543
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• 2010

This paper presents a slot-shaped defected ground structure(DGS) which has multi-band rejection property. The proposed structure, in which the spiral slot-shaped defects with different size are aligned in the transverse direction to the guiding direction of the coplanar waveguide(CPW), provides multiple resonance frequencies. Compared with the simulated results, the band rejection characteristic is in good agreement with the measurement. Also, an equivalent circuit model of the proposed structure is presented, where the DGS on the ground plane is modeled as LC-resonators. This resonators are inductively coupled to the signal line through mutual inductance. From the equivalent circuit model, multi-band rejection property was derived.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.12 s.103
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• pp.1186-1193
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• 2005

In this paper, a new 3 dB branch line hybrid using asymmetric spiral-shaped defected ground structure(DGS) microstrip is proposed. The proposed branch line hybrid suppresses the 2nd and the 3rd harmonic component effectively. Also a DGS $\lambda$/4 bias line that can suppress high frequency harmonics as well as low frequency intermodulation component is proposed. With the harmonic termination tuner using the proposed hybrid and the harmonic blocking bias line, the 2nd and the 3rd harmonic components of the fabricated amplifier that operated in IMT-2000 basestation transmitting band were suppressed up 25 dB and 27 dB, respectively. The proposed harmonic load-pull setup of amplifier is more easily accomplished with proposed circuits than the previous.