• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.17-22
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• 2009

A switch or circulator is used for distinguishing between the paths of transmitter and receiver in TDD systems. If the isolation between Tx and Rx paths is low in TDD systems, the output signal of the ransmitter acts as an interferer to the receiver even if the transceiver operates on the receiver mode. In this paper we propose a method to get high isolation characteristics between transmitting and receiving paths in TDD systems. We implement the module with a proposed improving method to verify the effect of the isolation improvement and the experimental results are presented. The isolation improvement of above 44.8 dB over the frequency bandwidth of 30 MHz is obtained from the implemented isolation improvement module.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.1380-1387
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• 2012

The transmit/receive(T/R) module is a key component in the active phased array system. The brick-type T/R module has been widely used and the miniaturization has been an important factor to get the flexibility of the system configuration. For the miniaturization, multi-function chips(MFC) having a common leg configuration are suitable to reduce the number of required MMICs and a high isolation between transmit and receive paths is necessary for the high gain T/R modules. In this work, we propose a bias timing scheme for the compact T/R module and show the optimum timing based on measurements, in order to improve the feed-back path loop problem and the consequent isolation problem of the common leg configuration. We have implemented high power(7 W/channel) and high T/R gain(35 dB transmit and 30 dB receive gains) within the half size($140{\times}80{\times}16mm^3$) of the conventional T/R modules.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.42-52
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• 2012

In this paper, a waveguide antenna is designed and fabricated for side and rear radar sensor of vehicles in UWB (Ultra Wide Band) high band (center frequency : 9.5 GHz, -10 dB bandwidth : 600 MHz (6.4 %)). For the radar antenna, a probe fed rectangular waveguide antenna having simple structure and wide bandwidth is used. An important performance factor in this antenna is the isolation between transmitting (TX) and receiving (RX) waveguide antennas because this radar system uses TX and RX antennas separately. Thus the isolation between two antennas was simulated for E-plane and H-plane array. As a result, it was verified that the isolation of the H-plane array of the antennas is better than E-plane array, due to the TE10 mode. Therefore, H-plane arrayed waveguide antennas were mounted on a T-shaped radar module and performance of antennas was investigated. The -10 dB bandwidth of the TX and RX antenna mounted on T-shaped radar module was measured as 1000 MHz (10.52 %) and 1090 MHz (11.47 %) respectively and the isolation is less than -50 dB in the operation band. The peak gain is 7.65 dBi for the TX antenna and 7.26 dBi for the RX antenna and the beamwidth of H-plane of TX and RX antenna was measured as $64^{\circ}$ and $65^{\circ}$ respectively. Consequently, we verified that the proposed waveguide antenna is appropriate for a vehicle radar applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8A
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• pp.1417-1427
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 밀리미터파를 이용하여 사용자에게 양방향 무선 멀티미디어의 구현을 가능케 하는 LMDS 송수신 모듈을 설계, 구현하였다. 제작된 LMDS 송수신 모듈은 신서사이져, 혼합기, 저잡음 증폭기, 고출력 증폭기, 듀플렉서 등으로 구성하였으며, 전체적으로는 전원부와 제어부를 통하여 이상여부를 감시하며, 송수신 모듈에 이상이 발생했을 때 이를 보호할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 여기서 DAVIC 표준에 맞도록 IF부 대역은 0.95∼1.45GHz의 500MHz 대역폭에서 동작하도록 제작하였고, 상하향 혼합기는 격리도 특성을 최대화하였으며, 이를 위해 하이브리드 링형을 이용한 다이오드 평형 구조를 적용하여 설계하였다. 혼합기로 주입되는 Local 주파수는 안정도가 높아야 함으로 유전체 공진형 발진기로 구현하였다. 또한 저잡음 증폭기와 고출력 증폭기는 정보통신부에서 공고한 3사 주파수 대역을 모두 수용할 수 있도록 24GHz∼26.5GHz의 대역에서 정상적인 동작을 할 수 있도록 설계하였으며, 특히 저잡음 증폭기는 잡음 환경에서 작은 신호를 손실 없이 얻을 수 있도록 잡음지수를 최소화하고, 30dB 이상의 충분한 이득이 구현되도록 하였다. 고출력 증폭기는 15dBm 이상의 출력을 송신하면서도 선형성에 문제가 없도록 혼변조왜곡(IMD) 특성을 고려하여 설계하였다. 그리고 듀플렉서는 우수한 주파수 선택도와 낮은 삽입손실 특성을 갖도록 송수신 필터 모두 5개의 공진기를 포함한 Chebyshev형 구조를 갖으며 생산성이 뛰어난 모노리딕형으로 구현하여, LMDS 송수신 성능을 구현하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.12 s.103
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• pp.1213-1221
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• 2005

In this paper, dual-polarized antenna for UHF RFID reader has been described. Feeding network and antenna structure have been designed, such that both port isolation between transmitting and receiving port and cross-polarization be maximized, and overall antenna size be minimized as well. In addition, sequentially rotated feeding scheme has been adopted to secure axial ratio bandwidth in the circular polarization. Test results show 2.35 dBi antenna gain in 900 to 928 MHz frequency range and 150 MHz axial ratio bandwidth, respectively. And, the proposed antenna has a port isolation of -40 to -38 dB and a cross-polarization of -40 to -30 dB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.709-715
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• 2002

In this paper, a novel low profile dual feeding microstrip antennas with microstrip and H-shaped aperture feeding are proposed to achieve high isolation and easy feeding, and the validity of the proposed antennas is demonstrated experimentally. In the proposed single and 1$\times$4 array antenna, the measured isolations are less than -49 dB and -48 dB, impedance bandwidths are 4 % at 12.5 GHz and 2.1 % at 14.25 GHz for the VSWR<1.5 in both antennas and maximum gains are 8.25 dBi and 14.2 dBi.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.27-32
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• 2019

This study describes the design and implementation of a simulated signal generator to demonstrate the performance of VHF band radar for the detection of small targets in RCS(Radar Cross Section). The transmission and reception antenna beam widths used in the simulated signal generating apparatus may be large, which may cause problems in the degree of isolation. Interference signal immunity and isolation characteristics are improved by considering operating conditions of VHF radar to solve isolation of antennas. Simulated signal generator performs the following: VHF radar transmission and reception correction, simulation signal generation, target Doppler, RCS and distance simulation, remote control, and GPS clock synchronization function. After the fabrication of the simulated signal generator, the main characteristics, such as the output characteristics and the reflection signal simulations, were tested. When the microwave radar assembly is completed in the future, it will be utilized for the performance evaluation of VHF radar.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.83-90
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• 2001

Conventional SAW duplexer filters employ a 1/4 wavelength transmission line, which causes difficulty in fabrication of the strip line on the package. Its manufacturing process is also complicated, because it needs integrating process of the separate transmitting filter, receiving filter and isolation circuits. This paper concerns development of a new structure of the duplexer filter that has all the transmitting filter, the receiving filter and the isolation circuit as a one chip device. For composition of the duplexer, we design the component SAW ladder filters and the isolation network consisting of lumped inductor and capacitor elements. Performance of the whole duplexer is optimized by the nonlinear multivariable minimization of a proper target function, and the result is compared with that of commercial filters.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.43-49
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• 2008

In this paper, new directional couplers for T/R switch of UHF RFID applications are proposed to overcome TX-to-RX leakage problem. The proposed method can remove TX-to-RX leakage caused by both imperfect isolation characteristic of the conventional directional coupler and the mismatch of antenna impedance. Two directional couplers are implemented using distributed elements and lumped elements respectively for the verification. The varactor tuneable circuits for compensation of the antenna mismatch is also proposed. The measurement result shows excellent TX-to-RX leakage suppression, more than 45dB in 910MHz.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.393-396
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• 2000

기존의 탄성표면파 듀플렉서 필터는 1/4 파장 정합선로를 이용한 격리회로를 이용하기 때문에 패키지 상에 스트립라인을 구성하는 제작상의 어려움이 있다 본 연구에서는 격리회로가 송신용, 수신용 필터와 함께 온칩상에 위치할 수 있는 새로운 형태의 탄성표면파 필터를 설계하였다. 그 과정으로 송수신 대역을 각각 담당하는 사다리형 필터를 설계하였고, 집중소자 즉, 인덕터와 캐패시터로 구성되는 탄성표면파 듀플렉서 필터의 격리회로를 구성하였으며, 우수한 성능을 가질 수 있도록 각각의 집중소자들의 값을 최적화하였다.