• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.72-75
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• 2017

In this paper, we design the circular slits in the parch antenna for size reduction and high gain working at 900 MHz. Modifying the rectangular type patch, we decrease the antenna real-estate, leading to antenna miniaturization with added circular slits in itself. The antenna is tuned for under -30 dB return loss by adjusting the number of circular slits and their radii, and its design is performed for the maxim bean pattern of 4 dBi gain. Compared with the antenna without circular slits, the designed antenna shows 20 MHz downward shift of frequency, proving that the size reduction is achieved with this antenna design.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.426-429
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• 2017

For the W-band remote sensing radiometer, direct detection type radiometer receiver is designed. The receiver should be low noise and high gain of 60 dB unlike communication and radar receiver. The W-band radiometer consist of 4-stage low noise, high gain amplifier, band pass filter and square law detector. The developed direct detection receiver show 4 GHz bandwidth, 56 dB gain, and 4,500 mV/mW voltage sensitivity at integrator output port for -20 dBm input power at 94 GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.486-489
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• 2016

A horn antenna with corrugation structure and a PTFE(Polytetrafluoroethylene) teflon(relative permittivity=2.1) dielectric lens for good impedance matching characteristic and high gain performance is proposed in this paper. The proposed antenna shows measured return loss below -25 dB over the operating X band(8~12 GHz), the peak gain of 22.3 dBi at the center frequency(10 GHz) and has overall size of $110mm{\times}110mm{\times}135mm$. Considering the performance of the proposed antenna, it is suitable for being inserted in a radar level transmitters, particularly for gas tanks on vessels or off-shore plants containing gas with very low reflectivity and relative permittivity such as LNG or LPG.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1116-1120
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• 2010

Low cost patch array antenna for high sensitivity electromagnetic(EM) sensor is presented. The operating frequency band of the antenna is 24.05~24.25 GHz. Array structure is the symmetrical pattern by Chebyshev polynomial and the feed point is located in the middle of the array. Also, the gain of the array antenna can be increased by the side wings which are connected with the ground plane. It is proved through simulation and the measurement results that the operating frequency and the side-lobe level(SLL) are rarely changed when the inclined angle of the side wings is varied.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.2241-2248
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• 2011

This paper describes the design of a palette-type 60watt high power amplifier module using gallium nitride(GaN) devices with high power and efficiency performances for WiMAX and LTE systems. The line-up for the high gain amplifier module consists of the pre-amplifier stage with low power and high gain, 8watt GaN driving amplifier stage, and 60watt GaN high power amplifier stage of Doherty structure with two 30watt GaN devices. The obtained gain is 61.4dB with an excellent gain flatness of ${\pm}$0.075dB over 2.5~2.68GHz. GaN devices and the Doherty structure are adopted for the improvement of high efficiency and output power. The measurement for the fabricated high power amplifier module of palette type is performed using the widely known WiMAX signal all over the world. In the example of RRH(remote radio head) application of the fabricated amplifier module, the measured efficiency is 37~38% with the 10watts of modulated output power. It is shown that when the fabricated amplifier module is activated with a digital predistorter(DPD), the measured ACLR is better than 46dBc under the 10watts of modulated output power.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.434-439
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• 2002

본 연구는 파장 분할 다중화(WDM：Wavelength Division Multiplexing) 방식 전송 시스템 (Transmission System)에 사용되는 어븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기(EDFA : Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier)의 이득 제어(Gain Control) 방법에 관한 것으로 어븀 첨가 광섬유에서 상호 이득 포화(Cross Gain Saturation) 현상, 이득 비동질 (Gain In-homogeneity) 특성, 그리고 어븀 이온의 밀도 반전(Population Inversion)의 변화 에 의해 출력되는 다 파장 광 신호들의 광 세기가 각기 다르게 출력되는 현상을 고출력을 내도록 구성된 어븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기와 고속 제어기를 구성하여 위 현상들을 억제하며 이득을 제어하기 위한 레이저 다이오드(Laser Diode : LD)의 제어전압 조사하고, 얻어진 결과들을 토대로 이득 제어에 적합한 방법을 제시하고 제어기를 설계한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.293-297
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• 2002

본 연구는 파장 분할 다중화(WDM： Wavelength Division Multiplexing) 방식 전송 시스템 (Transmission System)에 사용되는 어븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기(EDFA： Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier)의 이득 제어(Cain Control) 방법에 관한 것으로 어븀 첨가 광섬유에서 상호 이득 포화 (Cross Cain Saturation) 현상, 이득 비동질(Cain In-homogeneity) 특성, 그리고 어븀 이온의 밀도. 반전(Population Inversion)의 변화에 의해 출력되는 다 파장 광 신호들의 광세기가 각기 다르게 출력되는 현상을 고출력을 내도록 구성된 어븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기와 고속 제어기를 구성하여 위 현상들을 억제하며 이득을 제어하기 위한 레이저 다이오드(Laser Diode : LD)의 제어전압 조사하고, 얻어 진 결과들을 토대로 이득 제어에 적합한 방법을 제시하고 제어기를 설계한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.166-172
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• 2001

A RF wideband receiver for INMARSAT-B satellite communications system was composed of low noise amplifier and high gain amplifier, The low noise amplifier used to the resistive decoupling circuit for input impedance matching and self-bias circuits for low noise. The high gain amplifier consists of matched amplifier type to improve receiver gain. The active bias circuit can be used to provide temperature stability without requiring the large voltage drop or relatively high-dissipated power needed with a bias stabilization resistor. The bandpass filter was used to reduce a spurious level. As a result, the characteristics of the receiver implemented here show more than 60 dB in gain and less than 1.8:1 in input and output voltage standing wave ratio(VSWR), especially the carrier to noise ratio which is input signal level -126.7 dB m at 1537.5 MHz is a 45.23 dB /Hz at a 1.02 kHz.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.238-246
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• 2017

High frequency ultrasound imaging typically suffers from low sensitivity due to the small aperture of high frequency transducers and shallow imaging depth due to the frequency-dependent attenuation of ultrasound. These limitations should be overcome to obtain high-frequency, high- resolution ultrasound images. One practical solution to the problems is a high-performance signal receiver capable of detecting a very small signal and amplifying the signal with minimal electronic noise addition. This paper reports a recently developed low-noise, wideband ultrasound receiver for high-frequency, high-resolution ultrasound imaging. The developed receiver has an amplification gain of up to 73 dB and a variable amplification gain range of 48 dB over an operating frequency of 80 MHz. Also, it has an amplification gain flatness of ${\pm}1dB$. Due to these high performances, the developed receiver has a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 8.4 dB and a contrast-to-noise ratio of at least 3.7 dB higher than commercial receivers.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.127-132
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• 2018

In this paper, a high conversion gain cascode mixer was designed in W-band and verified by the fabrication and measurements. In the high frequency band such as a W-band, the conversion loss of a mixer is increased because of the poor performance of transistors. This high conversion loss of the mixer requires additional circuits which can give an extra gain such as an RF buffer amplifier, and this can affects the linearity and stability of the overall systems. Therefore, it is necessary to maximize the conversion gain of the mixer. To maximize the conversion gain of the mixer, biases of the transistor were optimized, and output load impedance was optimized by the load-pull simulations. The designed mixer was fabricated in $0.1-{\mu}m$ GaAs pHEMT technology and verified by the measurements. The measurement results shows a maximum conversion gain of -4.7 dB at W-band and an input 1-dB compression point of 2.5 dBm.