• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.147-155
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose that three uniform coplanar waveguides(CPWs), such as a conventional, finite grounded(FG), and grounded(G) CPWs, can be coupled with a $TE_{01{\delta}}$ mode dielectric resonator(DR) for a parallel resonant characteristic as a microstrip line coupled with the DR. Coupling characteristics have been investigated by placing the DR on a dielectric support above the CPWs and by moving the DR away from the center of a slot of the CPWs to the ground plane. FEM simulation(HFSS) results in terms of S-parameters agree well with measurement results. Finally, unloaded Q values of the DR coupled with the three uniform CPWs are compared with those of the DR coupled with a microstrip line. The comparison shows that the DR coupled with the three CPWs has higher unloaded Qs than that coupled with a microstrip line and that the GCPW case has the highest unloaded Qs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2005

The isolation performance of the S-band single-pole single-throw (SPST) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) switch with two different RF-interconnection approaches, microstrip and grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW) lines, are investigated. On-to-off isolation is improved by 5.8 dB with the GCPW design compared with the microstrip design and additional improvement of 6.9dB is obtained with the coplanar wire-bond interconnection (CWBI) at 3.4 GHz. The measured insertion loss and third-order inter-modulation distortion (IMD3) are less than 2.43 dB over 2.5 CHz $\sim$ 4 GHz and greater than 64 dBc.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.847-854
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• 1999

In this paper, we have analysed frequency-dispersion characteristics of higher-order modes for uniform planar transmission lines, using the 2-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method. The method presented in this paper uses both informations of amplitude and phase of the electromagnetic spectrum to determine resonant frequencies, while methods previously reported use the magnitude only. This algorithm is very useful when a resonant mode has a relatively small magnitude, where the identification of the resonant mode is quite difficult. Numerical results show that a strip line supports few higher-order modes within the frequency range of 20 GHz, but there occur many higher-order modes in the structure of grounded coplanar waveguide, where resonant frequencies of the first higher-order mode is very close to those of the fundamental mode and there occur lots of very adjacent higher-order modes. As in this example, for the analysis of planar transmission lines which support many resonant modes very close each other, the method presented in this paper can be applied very efficiently.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.2 s.105
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• pp.134-138
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• 2006

The isolation performance of the S-band single-pole single-throw(SPST) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) switch with two different RF-interconnection approaches, microstrip and grounded coplanar waveguide(GCPW) lines, are investigated. On-to-off isolation is improved by 5.8 dB with the GCPW design compared with the microstrip design and additional improvement of 6.9 dB is obtained with the coplanar wire-bond interconnection(CWBI) at a 3.4 GHz. The measured insertion loss and third-order inter-modulation distortion(IMD3) are less than 1.94 dB over $3.2{\sim}3.6\;GHz$ and greater than 64 dBc.