• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.361-365
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• 2002

Three types of the coupling structures in combline resonators are presented: magnetic, electric, and mixed coupling structures. The magnetic coupling structure is provided by the window, and the electric coupling is provided by the electric probe. The mixed coupling structure which is the superposition of the magnetic and electric coupling structures, is proposed for the electric coupling in combline resonators with easy tuning capability. The responses of each coupling structure are shown. A 4-pole combline filter is designed and fabricated as an application of those coupling structures, and shows good filter responses.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1485-1492
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• 1994

In this paper, we design and implement the Combline Bandpass Filters for the satellite transponder by using the least-squares curve-fitting method. The Combline Bandpass Filters are located front of the mixer and behind of it, which is the component of down converter. Comparing with the filters which have $\lambda$/4 resonance length. Combline Filter has wide range of stop-band by using $\lambda$/8. So, it is useful to the satellite transponder owing to its low mass and small size. The filters described are realized as coupled rectangular coaxial transmission lines. The choice of this type is due to the ease of machining and wide variations in coupling coefficients rather than the use of the round rod resonators. We determine 800 MHz bandwidths for the combline bandpass filters. By using Chebyshev filter function, we design and implement 4-pole combline filters.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.543-552
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• 2010

Modified compact combline bandpass filters are proposed based on the miniaturized quarter-wave transmission line which is composed of the parallel coupled line and lumped capacitors. The electrical length of the parallel coupled line in a resonator, which determines the size of combline bandpass filters, is just $5^{\circ}$ or $7^{\circ}$, resulting in a compact circuit area. The designed combline bandpass filter also has a wide upper stopband by suppressing the spurious passbands, not moving. Measured results of two fabricated filters centered at 400MHz show good agreement with the theoretical predications.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.190-194
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• 2007

In this paper, a cross-coupled microstrip combline bandpass filter using stepped-impedance resonators(SIRs) is proposed. In order to improve the selectivity as well as the insertion loss, the SIR configuration is used. The cross coupling is also introduced to enhance the selectivity. The improvement of the insertion loss is demonstrated not only by deriving the quality factor of the SIR but through the measured performances. Both the proposed and the conventional combline bandpass filter with 5 % of fractional bandwidth at 2 GHz were fabricated and tested. Compared to the conventional combline bandpass filter, the proposed one exhibits the improved selectivity as well as the lower insertion loss characteristics.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.144-147
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• 2008

This paper proposes a tunable combline bandpass filter with high selectivity, constant bandwidth, and good stopband performances. A filter with these characteristics is obtained by applying cross-coupling to the conventional combline bandpass filter using stepped-impedance resonators(SIRs). For high selectivity and constant bandwidth, cross-coupling is utilized and the SIR configuration is used for enhanced stopband performances. The proposed combline tunable bandpass filter with 5% of fractional bandwidth at 1.6 GHz was fabricated and tested. The measured results showed 11.6% tunability with constant bandwidth, high selectivity and enhanced stopband characteristics.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.71-76
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• 2004

A compact embedded tapped-line combline filter with interdigital capacitors using low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology for wireless application is proposed. Also, in-situ measurement using T-pattern microstrip resonator was performed to acquire exact knowledge of electrical properties of the LTCC substrate. The proposed filter makes it possible to realize a relatively small size, 2.7mm${\times}$2.03mm. by employing interdigital and combline structure. It shows 1.8 ㏈ insertion loss, 37.6㏈ return loss, and 280 MHz bandwidth at the center frequency of 5.09 GHz. Its small size and simple structure make it a good candidate as an integrated filter for various LTCC substrates.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.84-90
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• 2011

In this paper, a dual-band pseudo-combline narrow bandpass filter is proposed. The proposed bandpass filter adopts the open resonant stubs and the proposed bandpass filter can be used for ITS(Intelligent Transport System) and X-band satellite systems application. The proposed bandpass filter has the insertion and return losses of 1.72 dB and 15.5 dB at the bandwidth of 3.6 % and center frequency of 5.8 GHz, respectively. Also, the second operating frequency band for insertion and return losses are 1.92 dB and 16.3 dB at the bandwidth of 3% and center frequency of 8.5 GHz, respectively.

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.29-35
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• 2001

Combline 구조를 가진 마이크로 스트립 라인 또는 스트립 라인 필터를 내장한 기능형 PCB를 제작하였다. 저 비용 구현 및 이동성과 휴대성을 강조하기 위해 기존의 세라믹 대신 FR4와 에폭시를 유전체로 사용하는 저가형 다층 회로 기판의 도체 층에 집적화 하였다. Combline의 각 끝단에 커패시터를 부하함으로써 전기적 길이를 확장하였고 전체적인 크기를 감소시킴으로서 적당한 필터 특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 구현된 Embedded PCB는 마이크로파 대역에서 사용 가능하며 특히 Bluetooth 나 Wireless LAN과 같은 ISM 대역을 사용하는 무선통신소자로서 사용 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.35-37
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• 2001

다층 인쇄 회로 기판에 Combline 구조를 가진 스트립 라인 또는 마이크로 스트립 라인 대역통과 필터를 구현하였다. 저 비용 구현과 이동성과 휴대성을 강조하기 위해 기존의 세라믹 대신 FR4 와 에폭시를 기반으로 하는 다층 회로 기판의 도체 층에 집적화하였다. Combline 각 끝단에 커패시터를 부하 함으로써 전기적 길이를 화장하였고 전체적인 크기를 감소시킴으로서 적당한 필터 특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 구현된 필터는 마이크로파 대역에서 사용 가능하며 특히 Bluetooth나 Wireless LAN 과 같은 ISM 대역을 사용하는 무선통신소자로서 사용 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.366-369
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• 2002

Two artificial neural networks (ANN) are used to model the electric coupling probe in the combline resonators. One is used to analyze and synthesize the electric probe, and the other is used to correct errors between the results of the analysis and the synthesis ANNs and the fabrication results. The ANNs for the analysis and the synthesis of the electric probe are trained using the physical dimensions of the electric probe and the corresponding coupling bandwidth which is obtained using the finite element method. The ANNs for the error correction are trained using a very small set of the measurement results. Once trained, the ANN models provide the correct result approaching the accuracy of the measurement. The results from the ANN models show fairly good agreement with those of the measurement and they can be used as good initial design values.