• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9B
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• pp.1668-1675
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• 1999

In this thesis, a narrowband bandpass filter using HTS is proposed for the multiplexer of the satellite communication subsystems. The proposed structure using HTS provides the narrower band and the lower insertion loss characteristics than the conventional parallel-coupled-line bandpass filter. The filter structure using hairpin-line only cause the spurious modes due to the surface waves. But these modes can be lessened by using the hybrid hairpin-line/parallel-coupled-line proposed in this thesis. The narrowband bandpass filters using HTS at the operation frequency of 14.25 GHz are fabricated to have the narrow bandwidth less 1% and the insertion loss less 3dB in comparison with the normal metal microstrip filter with the same three poles. The experimental results show that the filter using HTS has the characteristics of the narrower bandwidth and less insertion loss and can be fabricated with more compact size in comparison with the bandpass filter using normal metal.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.18-24
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• 2003

The resonator using two layer microstrip structure was proposed and the bandpass filter was designed using this resonator in this paper. The proposed resonator structure is constructed by placing a U-shape of resonator in the first layer and then placing a broadside coupling strip in the second layer just above of the U-shape of resonator's edge part. Because these structure has various design parameters than general single layer coupled line structure, filter design is more flexible. In this paper, the narrow band filter was designed using multi-layer structure that had been applied to broadband filter because it's high coupling nature. The filter was designed to have 4MHz center frequency and 3 % fractional bandwidth, and finally confirmed that can be realizable narrow band filter by using multi-layer structure through fabrication and measurement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.554-559
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• 2004

A novel miniaturized 2-pole band pass filter(BPF) is proposed and it has an overlapped hairpin and slot structure on the upper and bottom plane of microstrip lines. Due to the overlapped structure of a hairpin and a slot, the size of the proposed BPF is quite smaller than that of a general BPF having coupled lines. The size of the proposed BPF is reduced to 33 % comparing with the conventional λ/4 coupled BPF. The attenuation is improved by controlling the attenuation poles properly using the proposed structure. The proposed 2-pole BPF is fabricated with a narrow bandwidth(69 ㎒) at center frequency, 1.9 ㎓ which is difficult to make that narrow bandwidth in the conventional coupled lines due to impractical spacing. The design method in this paper can be applied to the design of other microwave circuits to reduce the size and improve the performances.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.852-857
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• 2011

In this paper, the application of a variable characteristic impedance transmission line that can be used to design a dual-band bandpass filter(BPF) is presented. The proposed filter offers a fixed first frequency passband and a controllable second passband. The tuning of the second passband is achieved by varying the characteristic impedance of and open shunt stub line in a stub loaded resonator(SLR) with the help of a defected ground structure(DGS) transmission line and varactor diodes. In order to validate the proposed structure, a two stage dual-band BPF with three transmission zeros was implemeted and experimentally verified based on its theoretical predictions and simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.2 s.105
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• pp.95-100
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• 2006

In this paper, we designed amplitude equalizer which is composed of amplifier, complementary shaping filter and attenuator in order to improve flatness of high order bandpass filter. We modified Chebyshev polynomial and calculated the prototype elements for complementary shaping filters by network synthesis. The amplitude equalizer is realized that it connects the 4th order complementary shaping filter designed by using calculated the prototype elements to the amplifier compensating for insertion loss and improving return loss, and with the attenuator for gain control. Using proposed amplitude equalizer, We certificated improvement in flatness of 13th order bandpass filter at WiBro band.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.7A
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• pp.563-568
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• 2003

In this paper, a miniaturized parallel coupled bandpass filter using multi-layered LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics) substrate for SOP(System-On-Package) is proposed for applications to wireless communication systems. The fabricated BPF is composed of five 106${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ thick LTCC layers and its size is 5.24mm x 4.3mm x 0.53 mm. The measured characteristics of the BPF show the center frequency of 5.8GHz, bandwidth of 200MHz, insertion loss of 2.326dB and return loss of 13.679dB. In addition, the attenuation is 28.052dB at 4.7GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.8A
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• pp.607-612
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• 2003

In this paper, a miniaturized parallel coupled bandpass filter using multi-layered LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics) substrate for SOP(System-On-Package) is proposed for applications to wireless communication systems. The fabricated BPF is composed of five 106$\mu\textrm{m}$ thick LTCC layers and its size is 5.24mm ${\times}$ 4.3mm${\times}$ 0.53mm. The measured characteristics of the BPF show the center frequency of 5.8GHz, bandwidth of 200㎒, insertion loss of 2.326㏈ and return loss of 13.679㏈. In addition, the attenuation is 28.052㏈ at 4.7GHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.52-58
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• 2000

In this paper, the novel dielectric resonator bandpass filter for Korea personal communication service channel combiner is proposed. The equivalent circuit of the channel bandpass filter is derived using the lumped elements. Proposed channel bandpass filter provides compact size, low insertion loss, two attenuation poles in the stop band, and excellent temperature characteristics. Two channel filters are combined with proposed dielectric resonator filter configuration to implement the 2-channel combiner. Experimental results show the validity of the proposed dielectric resonator channel bandpass filter.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.621-629
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• 2008

This paper presents a low temperature co-fire ceramics(LTCC) Upconverter for a Ka-band OBS satellite transponder in order for size reduction which is one of the most important requirement for satellite components. A S-band low-pass filter(LPF), a K-band band-pass filter(BPF), and an upconverting MMIC mixer are embedded in the multi-layer structure of the upconverter. All spurious can be selectively rejected by employing a modified Elliptic low pass filter with a multi-pole structure for the S-band LPF. Also an improved performance of out-of-band rejection can be obtained. At the K-band BPF design a layer coupled configuration is employed. The upconverting mixer is an MMIC diode mixer with a double-balanced configuration. Conversion loss and isolation of the upconverter are 9 dB and 51 dBc, respectively. The size of the LTCC upconverter is only $8{\times}7{\times}0.6mm^3$ which is one-third for the thin-film based upconverter.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.893-899
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• 2010

In this paper, the design of a new bandpass filter based on the modified circular mushroom metamaterial structure is proposed. In detail, half circular mushroom cells are used as the zeroth order resonators(ZOR), and an intermediate gap is adopted to introduce the coupling between neighboring ZOR resonators. The proposed bandpass filter design is validated by the circuit and 3D EM simulations and measurements compared to the target specifications, and the metamaterial properties are proved by the ZOR field distributions and dispersion diagram. Also, the effect of size reduction is addressed.