• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.120-122
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• 2015

This study presents a new, simple method for improving the front-to-back (F/B) ratio of a microstrip patch antenna (MSA) based on surface wave suppression. The back radiation of the MSA is significantly reduced by using the meandered ground plane edges and placing split-ring resonators (SRRs) in the middle of the meandered slots. By loading SRRs near the center of the meandered ground plane edges, some parts of the diffracted back-lobe power density can be reduced further. Compared to the F/B ratio of a conventional MSA with a full ground plane of the same size, an improved F/B ratio of 18 dB has been achieved experimentally for our proposed MSA.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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• pp.427-431
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• 2007

Applications in present-day mobile communication systems particularly require miniaturized dimensions and low-profiles of antenna in order to meet the mobile units. Thus, size reductions and bandwidth enhancements are becoming crucial design considerations for practical applications of microstrip antennas. The motivation of further experiments have been stepped to follow those studies for achieving compact and broadband, even multiplied operation modes, which are greatly increased with much attentions recently. To obtain broadband, single-feed, circularly polarized characteristics of microstrip antennas, a design with feed-line ought to be a factor of two. Usually, diagonally balanced-line feeds with hybrid coupler are employed to attain circular polarizations. We firstly formulated DGS (Defected Ground Structures) based operation principles of the entire microstrip components and therefore were able to derive impedance variance of feed-lines. After verifying corresponding experimental results, we targeted the frequency bands of UHF RFID (Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency IDentification) and approximately of 0.4-2.4GHz have exhibited remarkable two resonance amplitudes as a dual band antenna. Our secondary researches were aimed to design quad band microstrip antenna which represents four resonance characteristics within the identical frequency bands as well. Microstrip patch has been meandered to lengthen the electrical paths, and the other design criteria with respecting physical parameters including radiation patterns and impedance bandwidths measurements will be described for verification. Advisable applications of these antennas can be GSM850, GSM900, GPS (L1-1575 and L2-1227) and UMTS-2110 of cellular systems, which extremely desire multiband and minimum size.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.475-478
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• 2010

A multiband meandered monopole antenna is proposed for digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H), global positioning system, personal communications service, wireless broadband (Wibro), and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. The proposed antenna consists of a meandered line, a shorted length strip line, and a conductor strip between a meandered line and a microstrip feed line. By tuning a short strip and a conductor, a multiband impedance matching is achieved. The proposed antenna has an omnidirectional radiation and yields an antenna gain of greater than -3 dBi in the DVB-H band and 4.5 dBi in the Wibro and WLAN bands. Details of the proposed antenna design and experimental results are presented.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.256-259
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• 2011

In this article, new microstrip slow-wave bandpass filters using open loop resonator loaded with inter-digital capacitive fingers is proposed. The filter features not only compact in size, but also exhibits spurious stop-band rejection. Filters of this type with elliptic function and Chebyshev response are demonstrated. There is good agreement between experimental and full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation results.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2005년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.15 No.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2005

A compact microstrip band-selective filter for ultra-wideband (UWB) radio system is proposed. The filter combines the traditional short-circuited stub highpass filter and coupled resonator bandstop filter on both sides of the mitered 50-ohm microstrip line. To realize the pseudo-highpass filtering characteristic over UWB frequency band (3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz), a distributed highpass filter scheme is adopted. Three coupled resonators are utilized to obtain the band stop function at the desired frequency band. By meandering the coupled resonators, there is 29% reduction in footprint compared to the traditional bandstop filter using L-shaped resonators. The measured results show that the filter has a wide passband of 146.7 % (2.1 GHz to 10.15 GHz) with low insertion loss and the stop band of 7.42 % (5.32 GHz to 5.73 GHz) for 3-dB bandwidth. The measured group delay is less than 0.7 ns within the passband except the rejection band.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.371-374
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• 2010

In this article, new microstrip slow-wave bandpass filters using open loop resonator loaded with inter-digital capacitive fingers is proposed. The filter features not only compact in size, but also exhibits spurious stop-band rejection. Filters of this type with elliptic function and Chebyshev response are demonstrated. There is good agreement between experimental and full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation results.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2009

X-대역의 위상 배열 시스템에 응용 가능한 전력 증폭기, 6-bit 위상 변위기, 6-bit 디지털 감쇠기 및 SPDT 송수신 스위치를 각각 설계 및 측정하였다. 모든 회로는 CMOS 0.18 um 공정을 사용하여 구현되었다. 전력 증폭기는 2-단 차동 및 cascode 구조를 가지며, 20 dBm 의 P1dB, 19%의 PAE 의 성능을 8-11 GHz 주파수 대역에서 보였다. 6-bit 위상 변위기는 Embedded switched filter 구조를 가지며, 스위치용 nMOS 트랜지스터 및 마이크로스트립 선로로 인덕턴스를 구현하였다. $360^{\circ}$ 위상 제어가 가능하며 위상 해상도는 $5.6^{\circ}$ 이다. 8-11 GHz 주파수 대역에서 RMS phase 및 amplitude 오차는 $5^{\circ}$ 및 0.8 dB 이하이며, 삽입손실은 약 $-15.7\;{\pm}\;1,1\;dB$ 이다. 6-bit 디지털 감쇠기는 저항 네트워크와 스위치가 결합된 Embedded switched Pi-및 T-구조이며, 위상 배열 시스템에서 요구하는 낮은 통과 위상 변동 특성을 가지는 구조가 적용되었다. 최대 감쇠는 31.5 dB 이며 진폭 해상도는 0.5 dB 이다. 8-11 GHz 주파수 대역에서 RMS amplitude 및 phase 오차는 0.4 dB 및 $2^{\circ}$ 이하이며, 삽입손실은 약 $-10.5\;{\pm}\;0.8\;dB$ 이다. SPDT 송수신 스위치는 series 및 shunt nMOS 트랜지스터의 쌍으로 구성되었으며 회로의 면적을 최소화하기 위해 1개의 수동 인덕터만으로 SPDT 기능을 구현하였다. 삽입손실은 약 -1.5 dB, 반사손실은 -15 dB 이하이며, 송수신 격리 특성은 -30 dB 이하이다. 각각의 칩 면적은 $1.28\;mm^2$, $1.9mm^2$, $0.34\;mm^2$, $0.02mm^2$ 이다.