• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.64 no.3
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• pp.116-120
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• 2015

In this paper, a step type driver dipole antenna with a tapered balance and unbalance (balun) by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) to coplanar strip (CPS) transition is proposed. The proposed antenna consisted of step type driver, a CPW to CPS transition and tapered balun. The proposed antenna is realized the multi and wide resonate frequency band to introduce the step type driver and tapered balun. The step type driver is acted as a director too. This antenna could be more easily designed than the conventional printed quasi-Yagi dipole antenna. The operating frequency bandwidth was 650 [MHz] (2.65~3.3 GHz), 900 [MHz] (4.7~5.6 GHz) under a return-loss criterion of less than 10 dB. The measurements of the proposed antenna exhibited good results in the wideband operating frequency and radiation pattern. The proposed antenna can support wireless communications applications.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.342-345
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 90W/sub avg/급 디지털 TV 중계기에 사용되는 140W/sub avg/급 전력증폭기를 설계 및 구현하였다. 중계기 규격의 기반이 되는 미국 FCC(Federal Communications Commission) 의 규격과 KBS(한국방송공사)가 제시하는 사양에 적합한 전력증폭기의 설계 및 구현을 목표로 하였다. 전력증폭기는 4단으로 구성하였으며, 전치증폭기는 A 급, 구동증폭기와 종단증폭기는 AB 급으로 동작시켰다. 구동증폭기에서는 3W/sub avg/의 출력을 얻었으며, 3 개의 전력증폭용 모듈이 병렬 연결된 종단증폭기에서는 140W/sub avg/ 의 출력을 얻을 수 있었다. 사용주파수의 대역을 넓히고 입력 및 출력의 VSWR 을 개선시키기 위하여 발룬과 sage wireline coupler 를 이용하여 전력증폭용 모듈을 설계하였다. 모든 전력증폭용 모듈은 방송용 전력증폭기의 규격사양인 isolator 로 종단 처리하여, 종단 임피던스의 갑작스런 변화시에도 장비가 보호될 수 있도록 설계하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.165-168
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• 2001

This Paper presents the design method and performance characteristics of a dual band balun. The design method for dual balun is based on the lumped element eqiuvalent circuit of quater-wave transformaer. By employing the proposed configuration and the derived formulas, dual band balun are designed and simulated and manufactured. The proposed design method and equivalent circuit can make it easy to adapt to designing of ceramic multi-layer chip type dual band balun. The dual band will find applications in wireless communication circuits.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2006

We present a ring hybrid balun with additional two ${\lambda}/4$ short stubs that offers excellent amplitude and phase balance performance. The phase difference which is essentially occurred in $180^{\circ}$ ring hybrid is compensated by a ${\lambda}/4$ short stub in one output port. To compensate the amplitude imbalance inherent in the ring hybrid, the series resistance will be added to the second stub which is connected to another output port. The measured balun shows that phase imbalance is less than $2.5^{\circ}$ and magnitude imbalance is less than 0.2dB over a 1.75-2.25 GHz.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.219-220
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• 2006

In this paper, we designed and implemented the Dual Band Dipole Antenna with Tapered Microstrip Balun for WLAN Access Point. Two dipole antennas with different resonant frequency and the antenna structure combined additional line were implemented for dual band performance. In order to feed the balun current, the tapered microstrip balun was used. Produced the Dual Band Antenna shows a special quality. The quality is that all VSWR is less than 1.5 in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands in 802.11 standards, and it profits not less than 1.7dBi having typical Dipole Antenna pattern the very "a form of 8"pattern and Omni-directional pattern.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.11
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• pp.1982-1987
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• 2007

This paper presents the design and analysis of LNA-Mixer for 2.45GHz RFID reader. The LNA is implemented by PCSNIM method for low power consumption. The Mixer is implemented by using the Gilbert-type configuration, current bleeding technique and the resonating technique for the tail capacitance. The connection between the two designed circuits is made by active balun. This LNA-Mixer has about 22dB gain and 8.5dB Noise Figure for -50dBm input RF power, LO power is 0dBm, RF frequency is 2.45 GHz and IF frequency is 100kHz. The layout of LNA-Mixer for one-chip design in a 0.18-um TSMC process has $2.5mm{\times}1.0mm$ size.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.117-120
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• 2004

The UWB UHF coupler for GIS PD detection needs a balun (balance to unbalance transformer) to show its inherent UWB characteristics. In order to reduce the size of the balun and to make it practical in the conventional GIS, a novel tapered coaxial balun with a dielectric was proposed for the UWB UHF coupler. The performance of the proposed balun was verified through a series of simulations, measurement and experiments. As results, both the conventional balun and the proposed balun of which length is one third of that of the conventional one showed good S11 characteristics, whereas the efficiency of the proposed balun increased as much as about 30% in comparison with the conventional one.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2309-2311
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• 2005

A broadband microstrip balun is proposed and designed using a ${\lambda}/4$short-stub in order to compensate phase imbalance. For the demonstration, two baluns are proposed and designed using a ${\lambda}/4$ shorted stub. One is a modified form of the conventional Wilkinson balun, and the other is a modified ring hybrid. Baluns are implemented on TLX-9 substrate of which the dielectric constant is 2.54 and the thickness is 0.5mm. The measurements show a bandwidth of 500MHz at the center frequency of 2GHz.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1502-1503
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• 2007

In this paper, inductive coupled LC balun has been desi gned and simulated for embedding into an organic packaging substrate. Inductive coupling method was applied to obtain wide band characteristics, and high dielectric film was utilized to reduce a size of the balun. The proposed balun has a novel scheme which consists of three embedded LC resonators with inductive coupling. This proposed balun has relatively small inductance and capacitance values which can be easily embedded into the organic packaging substrate. Furthermore, it has a good phase imbalance characteristic. The simulated results of proposed balun are an insertion loss of 1.2 dB, a return loss of 10 dB, a phase imbalance of 1 degree at frequency bandwidth of 750 MHz ranged from 1.8 GHz to 2.55 GHz, respectively. This balun has an area of $2mm{\tims}3.5mm{\times}0.66mm$ (height).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.714-720
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• 2009

In this paper, design and the implementation method of a band-tunable ultra-wideband planar doubler are described Microstrip-to-CPS(balun) transition and Microstrip-to-CPW transition are respectively used for input/output matching circuits for the doubler. The Input balun structure allows to apply diode bias, and the doubler output frequency is tunable by changing the diode bias voltage. With the bias voltage of -0.6 V, the measured operating frequency band of the implemented doubler is $10{\sim}20$ GHz, with the bias voltage of $-0.2{\sim}-0.4$ V, the operating frequency band is $10{\sim}30$ GHz, and with 0 V bias, the operating frequency band is $20{\sim}30$ GHz. The doubler provides conversion loss of less than 15 dB and fundamental frequency suppression of 30 dB.