• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.795-801
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• 2001

A method of miniaturizing branch line coupler is presented. The method utilizes the microstrip line with overlay(or superstrate). The frequency dependent characteristics, dispersion and characteristic impedance, of this line are obtained by Immitance method in spectral domain and Method of Line. The relevant spectral domain Green's function is given and used to obtain numerical results. The branch line couplers with overlays are designed and fabricated at 2 GHz. The experimental results show that the size of coupler with overlay(${epsilon}_r$=10.2) is 31.4 precent smaller than conventional coupler. This minimized coupler is suitable for Butler Matrix as feeder for mobile communication beam forming antenna.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.381-383
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 5.8Ghz ISM대역 평행 결합선로 대역통과 여파기를 설계 제작하였다. 긴본적인 설계는 저역통과 여파기에서 대역통과 여파기로 변환한 후, 직 병렬 공진기를 이용한 설계와 J-인버터를 이용해 평행 결합선로 대역통과 여파기를 구현하였다. 2개의 공진 주파수를 실제로 구현하기 어렵기 때문에 하나의 공진기만을 사용하기 위해 인버터를 사용하였다. 또한 실제적인 마이크로스트립 라인의 layout크기를 결정하기 위해 우수 기수 모드 임피던스를 해석하고 근사식을 통해 스트립라인의 치수를 결정하였다. 이런 과정을 토대로 5.8GHz ISM밴드용 평행 결합선로 대역통과 여파기를 설계, 제작하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.8A
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• pp.626-632
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• 2003

In this paper, forward-wave -3㏈ directional coupler with finite-thickness conductor and asymmetrical coupled lines are designed and experimentally verified using mode-matching based design methodology. Most of studies published in the literatures about the coupled lines are mainly concentrated on the adjustment of coupling amount by changing various geometric configurations. The analysis results in this paper show that thicker metalization requires reduced coupler length in the forward-wave directional coupler composed of asymmetrical coupled lines. Several forward-wave directional -3 ㏈ couplers with finite metalization thickness composed of asymmetrical coupled microstrip lines have been designed in the 5 ㎓ based on proposed design method. The measured data show -4.05㏈∼-4.09㏈ coupling at center frequency which is very closed to design value. The tight coupling has been implemented with accurate design methodology which take mentalization thickness into account.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.577-586
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 RLCG 전송선로를 가진 Chua 회로에서의 카오스 동기화 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 두 개의 동일한 Chua 회로에 전송 선로를 두어 RLCG 전송로를 구성한 후 송신부와 전송선로 사이는 구동-결합 동기 이론을, 전송선로와 수신부 사이는 결합 동기 이론을 적용한 동기화 방법을 제시하였으며, RLCG 전송 선로를 가진 Chua 회로의 카오스 동기화는 전송 선로의 L과 C 영향에 의한 시간 지연이 있는 일반화된 동기화가 이루어짐을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.444-449
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• 2009

This paper presents the design of a dual band branch line hybrid coupler(BLHC) with different power division ratios at two bands. In the proposed design, transmission lines of the BLHC are transformed to $\pi$-type equivalent circuits which represent different impedances and $\lambda/4$ electrical length at two frequency bands. In order to verify the proposed method, a dual band coupler with different power division ratios is designed for 0.9 GHz and 2 GHz applications. The desired power division ratios are 1:1 and 1:3 at the two operating frequency bands. The measured results show excellent performance with an insertion loss of less than 0.33 dB, a return loss of less than -18.07 dB, and good isolation characteristics.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.83-89
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new varactor coupled line structure and design the VCO using the proposed structure. The proposed coupled line structure removes the reflected signals from the varactor diode using an added $\lambda$/4 transmission line. The frequency synthesizers are designed using the PLL technique at Ku-band. The synthesizer using the proposed coupled structure has 38 MHz frequency tuning range and -97 dBc/Hz phase noise characteristic at 100 KHz offset frequency. The measured results show improved tuning range as well as the improved phase noise characteristics compared to the conventional designs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.2267-2272
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• 2009

The six-port direct conversion receiver front-end that is comprised of a carrier recovery and a phase shifter, which gets the same structure with six-port phase correlator using the multi-layer coupled line, was designed and fabricated in this paper. The six-port element that is comprised of the power divider and the hybrid coupler is designed by multi-layer coupled line structure. The multi-coupled structure is utilized as the basic structure in receiver phase correlator, carrier recovery circuit and phase shifter. The receiver front-end with the same multi-layer coupled line structure for the receiver elements shows the simple structure and no difficulty in integration. The fabricated multi-layer coupled six-port receiver front-end re-generates the carrier signal with a constant phase and demodulates the PSK transmission signal.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.180-183
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 N개의 평행 결합선로를 이용한 3dB 결합기를 해석하였으며, 유도된 식에 의하여 최소의 단수와 크기로 3dB 결합기를 설계하였다. 기존의 Spectral Domain상에서 N단 평행 결합선로의 복잡한 관계식 유도를 S 파라미터 관계식으로 간단히 유도 하였으며, 유도된 식의 타당성을 위해 실제 제작 검증하였다. 제작된 결합기는 Loose coupling의 평행 결합 선로의 광대역 특성을 그대로 이용하기 때문에 Lange Coupler와 같은 높은 임피던스와 Tight coupling을 구현 할 필요가 없으며, wire bonding도 용이하게 된다. 최소의 단수로 구현하기 위해 RT/Duroid의 R06006과 같은 높은 유전율과 두꺼운 기판을 사용하여 2단으로 3dB 구현이 가능하게 하였다. 제작결과 3.6GHz에서5.5GHz로 대략 42%(0.5dB imbalance) 정도의 광대역특성을 가지고 위상오차도 1$^{\circ}$내외의 결합기를 구현할 수 있었고 격리도 특성 또한 대역 내에서 15dB 내외의 특성을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.2 s.117
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• pp.118-125
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• 2007

Harmonic band of bandpass filter(BPF) is suppressed using coupled mushroom structure. Between double positive (DPS) transmission line such as microstrip and double negative(DNG) transmission line such as one dimensional mushroom structure, strong coupling broadly arises in the cross range of dispersion curves of isolated microstrip and mushroom structure because of complex propagation constant in the cross range. Strong coupling inhibits wave propagation, so that this kind of structure can be utilized as bandstop filter(BSF). This BSF utilizes coupled transmission line instead of coupled resonator, resulting in broad bandwidth(>30 %), shan-rejection, and high rejection level. The strong coupling between DPS and DNG transmissionline makes it possible shorten coupling length, resulting in compact size. In this paper, parallel coupled BSF having center frequency of 4 GHz and 3 dB fractional bandwidth of 40 % is designed and utilized to suppressed spurious mode of two bandpass filters.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.1036-1043
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• 2003

In this paper, novel lumped equivalent circuits for a conventional parallel directional coupler are proposed. This novel equivalent circuits only have self inductance and self capacitance, so we can design exact lumped equivalent circuit. The equivalent circuit and design formula for the presented lumped element coupler is derived based on the even- and odd-mode properties of a parallel-coupled line. By using the derived design formula, we have designed the 3 dB and 10 dB lumped element directional couplers at the center frequency of 100 MHz and 2 GHz, respectively a chip type directional coupler has been designed with multilayer configurations by employing commercial EM simulator. Designed chip-type directional couplers have a 3 dB-coupling value at the center frequency of 2 GHz and fabricated lumped directional coupler on fr4 organic substrate has a 3 dB, 10 dB-coupling values at the center frequency of 100 MHz. Excellent agreements between simulation results and measurement results on the designed directional couplers show the validity of this paper. Furthermore, in order to adapt to multi-layer process such as Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic (LTCC), chip-type lumped element couplers have been designed by using this method.