• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1296-1303
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• 1994

In this paper, a design of active inductors and their application in a frequency converter are proposed. In MMIC design, passive spiral inductor takes larger area than any other passive and active elements. A conventional spiral inductor generates undesired crosstalk, and its performance cannot have certainty and reproducibility. Meanwhile the active inductor eliminates these drawbacks, and operates for much wider bandwidth. Furthermore, its size is smaller and nearly independent of inductance. the performance of MMIC frequency converter with active inductors is directly compared with that of the frequency converters with spiral inductors. The size is 28.6% smaller with better performance in MMIC frequency converter.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.7-10
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• 2007

최근 이동통신을 이용해 다양한 서비스를 제공하기 위하여 멀티 밴드, 멀티 채널의 송수신기를 단일칩화 하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. CMOS 집적 회로 기술은 가격 경쟁력이 높고 집적도가 높아 멀티 밴드, 멀티 채널 송수신기를 집적화하기에 적합하다. 그러나 0.18 ${\mu}m$ 이하의 채널 길이를 갖는 CMOS 집적 회로는 1.8 V 이하의 낮은 공급 전압을 제공함으로 높은 이득을 갖는 mixer의 구현이 어렵고, mixer에서 발생되는 2, 3차 상호 변조에 의한 왜곡으로 선형성이 문제가 된다. 이런 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 기능성 능동부하를 적용하여 선형성을 향상한 Direct Conversion Down Mixer를 설계 분석 하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.1181-1189
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• 2013

In this paper, a retrodirective anatenna array system is proposed and the possibility of actively cancelling electromagnetic waves based on this system is investigated. When a rectrodirective array system receives an electromagnetic wave, it can send waves in the direction of the incoming signal without prior knowledge of the direction. In applications to cancellation of radar signals, the system can generate and send signals to the radar so that it cancels the radar signals that are reflected back to the radar. In such a system, isolation between the input and output ports is a key factor that determines the effectiveness of cancellation. In this work, a dual-conversion mixer system is proposed to maximize the isolation. Since this minimizes the difference between the direction of reflection of radar signals and the transmission of cancellation signals, the effectiveness of cancellation is maximized. Experimental results for a metallic plate and metallic cylinder shows as much as 29-dB reduction in reflection for a $2{\times}2$ retrodirective array based on proposed dual-conversion mixer system, which verifies the proposed method of active cancellation.

• Environmental engineer
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• s.328
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• pp.92-96
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• 2013

본 발명은 화장실의 세면대에서 사용된 세척수 및 하수를 중수도 수질기준에 적합하도록 처리하여 화장실 용수로 재활용하는 화장실의 중수도 시스템에 관한 것이다. 화장실의 중수도 시스템의 구성을 살펴보면, 세면대에서 사용된 세척수 및 하수가 유입되는 반응조와, 상기 반응조로 유입된 세척수 및 하수를 살균 및 소독하는 마이크로버블 오존 발생장치와, 살균 및 소독된 처리수를 정장하는 처리수조와, 상기 처리수조에 저장된 처리수를 화장실 용수로 공급하는 용수공급펌프를 포함한다. 이 중에서 상기 마이크로버블 오존 발생장치는, 외부에서 유입된 공기를 정화하는 에어필터와, 상기 에어필터에서 정화된 공기를 공급하는 에어펌프와, 상기 에어펌프를 통해 유입된 공기에 자외선을 조사하여 오존을 발생시키는 오존발생기와, 상기 오존발생기에서 발생된 오존을 세척수 및 하수에 혼합시키는 기액혼합펌프와 상기 오존과 상기 세척수 및 상기 하수의 혼합 효과를 극대화하기 위한 라인믹서로 구성된다. 이와 같이 구성된 본 발명에 의한 화장실의 중수도 시스템은 상수(上水)의 소비량을 줄이고 하수(下水)의 발생량을 감소시켜 경비절감의 효과를 얻을 수 있고, 지하수의 고갈 및 생활용수의 증가에 따른 물 부족 현상에 대해 능동적으로 대처할 수 있다. 특히, 재활용된 화장실 용수에는 오존이 함유되어 화장실 내의 악취제거, 살균 및 소독효과가 있으며, 외부로 배출되는 세척수 및 하수에 포함된 유지성분을 제거하여 환경오염을 방지할 수 있다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.99-104
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• 2013

In this paper, we developed a fully integrated downconverter MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit) including Lange coupler and output active balun for millimeter wave applications. Concretely, ${\lambda}$/4 transmission line was added to Lange coupler for size reduction of RF/LO input, and mixed RF/LO signals were applied to gate of the FET of mixer. Active balun was used at output port for a coupling of out-of-phase IF output signals. According to measured results, the proposed downconverter MMIC showed good RF performances. For example, the downconverter MMIC showed an LO leakage power of -25 dBc at IF output port, and a RF-LO isolation of 18 dB. Therefore, off-chip components such as LO rejection filters were not required for a normal operation of the proposed downconverter MMIC. The proposed downconverter MMIC showed a conversion gain of 10.3 dB at RF frequency of 63 GHz. The size of the downconverter MMIC including all active and passive components was $2.2{\times}1.4mm^2$.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.261-264
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• 2005

This paper presents the design of a down-conversion mixer with built-in active balun integrated in a $0.25\;{\mu}m$ pHEMT process. The active balun consists of series-connected common-gate FET and common-source FET. The designed balun achieved broadband characteristics by optimizing gate-width and bias condition for the reduction in parasitic effect. From DC to more than 6GHz, the active balun shows the phase error of less than 3 degree and the gain error of less than 0.4 dB. A single-balanced down-conversion mixer with built-in broadband active balun has been designed with optimum width, load resistor and bias for conversion gain and without any matching component for broadband operating. The designed mixer whose size of including on-chip bias circuit is $1\;mm{\times}1\;mm$ shows the conversion gain of better than 7 dB from 2 GHz to 6 GHz and $P_{1dB}$ of -10 dBm at 5.8 GHz

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.11A
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• pp.1104-1109
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• 2005

In this paper, a Ka-band harmonic mixer is designed and fabricated on the base of the multiplier theory that there is a bias point to maximize the third harmonic order($3f_{LO}$) with respect to a fundamental LO frequency($f_{LO}$), which can make the high-order mixing element($f_{RF}{\pm}3f_{LO}$) to be greater than other mixing elements, Pumping a RF frequency($f_{RF}$) and LO frequency($f_{LO}$). The harmonic mixer by the proposed design method is fabricated by using a commercial GaAs MESFET device with a plastic package and overcome these disadvantages that a conventional mixer in Ka-band suffer from a high cost, inefficient productivity and circuit complexity. The harmonic mixer have a -10 dB conversion loss at the IF Sequency($3f_{LO}-f_{RF}$=1.0GHz) by selecting a gate bias voltage for the maximum third-order LO harmonic element($3f_{LO}$=34.5 GHz) as pumping LO frequency($f_{LO}$=11.5 GHz) With respect to RF Sequency ($f_{RF}$=33.5GHz)

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.4 s.119
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• pp.379-388
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• 2007

This paper presents a real-time respiration and heartbeat detector comprised of a 1.6 GHz single-channel Doppler sensor and analog/digital signal processing block for remote vital sign detection. The RF front end of the Doppler sensor consists of an oscillator, mixer, low noise amplifier, branch-line hybrid and patch antenna. We apply artificial transmission lines(ATLs) to the branch-line hybrid, which leads to a size reduction of 40 % in the hybrid, while its performance is very comparable to that of a conventional hybrid. The analog signal conditioning block is implemented using second order Sallen-Key active filters and the digital signal processing block is realized with a LabVIEW program on a computer. The respiration and heartbeat detection is demonstrated at a distance of 50 cm using the developed system.