• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.119-124
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• 2008

Transimpedance amplifier(TIA) is the most significant element to determine the performance of the optical receiver, and thus the TIA must satisfy tile design requirements of high gain and wide bandwidth. In f)is paper, we propose a novel single chip optical receiver that exploits an analog adaptive equalizer and a limiting amplifier to enhance the gain and bandwidth performance, respectively. The proposed optical receiver is designed by using a $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS process and its post-layout simulations show $120dB{\Omgea}$ transimpedance gain and 5.88GHz bandwidth. The chip core occupies the area of $0.088mm^2$, due to utilizing the negative impedance converter circuit rather than using on-chip passive inductors.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.10-14
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• 2017

A reverberation chamber is widely used in mobile handset measurements due to its faster and simpler measurement process compared to traditional anechoic chambers. We propose an ultra-wideband inverse conical antenna design suitable as a reference antenna in a reverberation chamber. Traditionally, multiple discone antennas are needed to cover more than 10:1 operation bandwidth of a reverberation chamber. The proposed inverse conical antenna offers wideband impedance matching bandwidth by virtue of the linear impedance transition along its oblique side. The antenna is feasible to mount on the conductive walls which can be utilized as a ground to improve the matching bandwidth, antenna gain and radiation patterns. The antenna geometry is optimized using a 3D electromagnetic simulation tool and fabricated using a 3D printer. The measured results show that the antenna reflection coefficient lower than -10dB and radiation efficiency more than 70% at the frequency range of 0.65~7 GHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.384-391
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• 2003

The wideband annular ring slot antenna with concentric radiating structure and low impedance feedline has been presented. This antenna has been analyzed in compensation for FR-4 substrate with relative permittivity 4.3 and thickness 1 mm. As the measured 10 dB impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 127.2%(2.17∼9.76 GHz), its bandwidth is much broader than maximum 82% bandwidth of a conventional annular ring slot antenna. Experimental results from 2 to 10 GHz are shown to be in good agreement with the simulation. And this antenna has a high gain above 4 dBi from 2 GHz to 10 GHz as well as a 24% size reduction and 42% area reduction than a circular slot antenna.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.778-785
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• 2010

The folded monopole antenna for applying mobile communications equipment and wireless devices is presented in this paper. By using the coplanar waveguide feed the operating bandwidth has improved. In addition, each individual resonant elements has occurred different capacitance through asymmetrical left and right ground planes; therefore, the bandwidth has kept and the impedance matching has stabilized. By measurement results, the impedance bandwidth under VSWR< 2.5:1 are $824{\sim}890$ MHz and the $1,500{\sim}2,170$ MHz, also radiation patterns has omni-directional characteristics. The maximum gains of the proposed antenna are 5.52, 0.64, 3.00, 0.94 and 1.85 dBi at 850, 1,575, 1,790, 1,930 and 2,050 MHz respectively. The proposed antenna will be adapted to the internal antenna of the mobile communication devices.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.6 s.109
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• pp.556-561
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• 2006

In this paper, a frequency reconfigurable slot antenna which has a bandwidth-enhanced characteristic is proposed. The proposed antenna consists of two parts; the wide slot and the narrow slot, to increase the bandwidth of the antenna and have the frequency reconfigurable characteristic. The wide slot has triangular shape and makes the bandwidth increased, and the narrow slot can mount PIN diodes. By changing on/off state of PIN diodes, the total length of the slot is changed. From this characteristic, the proposed antenna can finally control the center frequency and minimize variation of the impedance matching.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.6 s.109
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• pp.511-518
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• 2006

In this paper, a small RFID tag antenna in UHF band which has bandwidth-enhanced characteristic is proposed. The shape of the proposed antenna is a meander antenna to have size-reduced characteristic, and it consists of two radiators which make dual resonance in adjacent frequency to enhance bandwidth. By adjusting length and location of each radiator, the proposed antenna can make dual resonance at arbitrary location on the Smith chart, which is able to make impedance matching with RFID tag chip in wide frequency range. And it is apparent that the proposed antenna can have bandwidth-enhanced characteristic according to the simulated and measured results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.47-52
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• 2012

This paper is in regard to design and experiment about the radar's circular polarization antenna operating in the Ku band. By using the Post to manufacture the circular polarization antenna using the linear antenna, it could reduce the structural size of an antenna. 3 Posts were used in order to broaden the Axial ration Bandwidth of the circular polarization antenna. The distance and length between Posts and Post were appropriately selected for the axial ratio optimization and applied in the design. It was verified that the designed antenna has the impedence bandwidth of 12.7%, axial ratio performance less than 2dB and gain of 7.8dBi.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.32-37
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• 2000

We proposed to a new method of the aperture coupled microstrip antenna with T-shaped feeding slot. We analyzed method of enhancing the bandwidth of the antenna using FDTD. And the antenna parameters are optimized to get maximum bandwidth. We also calculated the progress process of waves and the distribution of electric field in the time domain. We also calculated return loss, VSWR, input impedance, radiation pattern in the frequency domain by Fourier transforming the time domain results, respectively. It was found that the bandwidth of this antenna changes length and width of the patch, length and width of the slot, length of T-shaped feedline, position of the offset. Measured % bandwidth was 49.2 % in the center frequency 2.5 GHz. These results were in relatively food accordance with calculated values.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.7-11
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed the dual-mode stepped impedance ring resonator bandpass filter for MMIC (Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit) applications using the dielectric-supported air-gapped microstrip line (DAML). The ring resonator fabricated by surface micromachining technology. This filter consists of a DAML resonator layer and a CPW feed line. The DAML ring resonator is elevated with $10{\mu}m$ height from GaAs substrate surface. This bandpass filter is $1-{\lambda}g$ type stepped impedance ring resonator including dual-mode resonance. From the measurements, we obtained attenuation of over 15 dB and insertion loss of 2.65 dB at the center frequency of 97 GHz. Relative bandwidth is about 12 % at 97 GHz. Furthermore, the proposed bandpass filter is useful to integrate with conventional MMICs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.698-703
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• 2007

In this paper, a novel impedance tuner using a directional coupler is proposed. The design topology is analyzed by signal flow graph(SFG) and shows advantages compared with conventional single and double stub methods from the view points of easy implementation and wide tuning range, respectively. This impedance tuner consists of ten switches and its $2^{10}$ tuning points are distributed uniformly on the whole Smith chart. The measured maximum magnitude of the reflection coefficient is 0.9. And the fabricated impedance tuner has a wide bandwidth from 1.8 to 2.2 GHz. Using this impedance tuner, we did a load-pull measurement of a power transistor.