• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.401-406
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• 2016

When measuring live cable faults and their location based on reflectometry, a coupler is placed between the cable and the test system. This coupler prevents damage to the test circuits by indirectly measuring the live voltage of the cable using reflectometry. It also provides a coupling path that allows the transmission and receive signal to pass into the cable. In this study, we design and construct a contact coupler to locate faults in both dead and live cables using reflectometry. The proposed coupler is of the inductive coupling type and is constructed after the calculation of the signal transmission loss by simulation. The performance of the developed coupler is tested by measuring the transmission loss and frequency flatness. The results showed that the transmission signal loss is less than -1.98dB in the frequency bandwidth above 1 Mhz. The reflectometry system was designed based on sequence time domain reflectometry (STDR) and spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (SSTDR) in order to apply it to the detection of faults and their location in live cables and tests on live cables were performed. The test results showed that the proposed coupler can be used in a reflectometry system for live cable fault detection.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.5C
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• pp.506-511
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• 2002

In this paper, waveguide-based power combiner using conventional slotline-to-microstrip transition was proposed at Ka-band. The proposed 2-way and 4-way power combiner consist of waveguide-to-slotline transition, two or four slotline-to-microstrip transitions, and impedance matching networks. Their structures were simulated and optimized by 3-D FEM simulation. The 2-way power combiner showed a very low back-to-back insertion loss of 1.0 dB and return loss better than 15 dB from 25.7 GHz to 29.8 GHz except the resonant frequency. The 2-way power combining approach was extended to 4-way power combining using slotline tee junction. The 4-way power combiner showed the similar performance to that of 2-way power combiner with 2 GHz smaller bandwidth.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1744-1751
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• 2006

In this paper shows the Designed and Manufactured active antenna for wireless LAN that is consisted of 5.5GHz band local LNA and Microstrip Patch Antenna. LNA improved noise special quality using NEC company's NE3210S01 and Micnstrip Patch Antenna designed to have omnidirectional characteristic. Designed $1{\times}2$ Microstrip Patch Antenna to have the gain of about 8.3[dBi], the input reflection loss -32[dB], VSWR showed 1.132, and the LNA gain 15[dB], input-output reflection loss was showed the characterstic of -20[dB].

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.1558-1564
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• 2004

This paper shows the design of Active antenna which appled to 5.5GHz RF module for local wireless communication system. The LNA, which was designed Super low noise HJ FET of NE3210S01, is used to obtain a good noise figure characteristics. And the microstrip patch antenna was designed to obtain omnidirectional antenna characteristics. The measured LNA gain is 15 dB, input & output return loss is under -20 dB and VSWR under 1.5. The Single microstrip patch antenna input return loss is under -29 45, VSWR under 1.2.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.139-147
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• 2021

This paper introduces an image decomposition-based deep learning method and loss function to improve low-light images. In order to remove color distortion and halo artifact, illuminance channel of an input image is decomposed into reflectance and luminance channels, and a decomposition-based multiple structural deep learning process is applied to each channel. In addition, a mixed norm-based loss function is described to increase the stability and remove blurring in reconstructed image. Experimental results show that the proposed method effectively improve various low-light images.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.642-647
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• 2018

In this paper, an unequal power divider based on adjusting electrical length of uniform transmission line is presented. This divider consists of three uniform transmission lines and one isolation resistor and have the different port impedances of input and output. The feature of proposed divider can changed the power dividing ratio to adjust only electrical length of uniform transmission lines. To verify the feasibility of proposed power divider, two divider circuits are designed, one is 1:2 power dividing ratio divider with $60{\Omega}$ uniform transmission line and $40{\Omega}$ input port impedances and $45{\Omega}$ output port impedances, the performance data were measured the insertion losses of 1.7 dB/ 5.0 dB, return losses of more than -30 dB and isolation of more than -35 dB. The other is 1:4 power dividing ratio divider with $40{\Omega}$ uniform transmission line and $50{\Omega}$ input port impedances and $75{\Omega}$ output port impedances, the performance data were measured the insertion losses of 1.3 dB/ 6.8 dB, return losses of more than -12 dB and isolation of more than -19 dB. The measured performance data agreed well with the simulated results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.41-54
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• 2002

In this study, we have analyzed the effects of the membrane layer and the bragg reflector layers on the resonance characteristics through comparing the characteristics of the membrane type FBAR (Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator) and the one type bragg reflector layers with those of the ideal FBAR with top and bottom electrode contacting air by using equivalent circuit technique. It is assumed that ZnO is used for piezoelectric film, $SiO_2$ are used for membrane layer and low acoustic impedance layer, W are used for the high acoustic reflector layer and Al is used for the electrode. Each layer is considered to have a acoustic propagation loss. ABCD parameters are picked out and input impedance is calculated by converting 1-port equivalent circuit to simplified equivalent circuit that ABCD parameters are picked out possible. From the variation of resonance frequency due to the change of thickness of electrode layers, reflector layers and membrane layer it is confirmed that membrane layer and the reflector layer just under the electrode have the greatest effect on the variation of resonance frequency. From the variation of resonance properties, K and electrical Q with the number of layers, K is not much affected by the number of layers but electrical Q increases with the number of layers when the number of layers is less than seven. The electrical Q is saturated when the number of layers is large than six. The electrical Q is dependent of mechanical Q of reflector layers and membrane layer. Both ladder filter and SCF (Stacked Crystal Filters) show higher insertion loss and out-of-band rejection with the increase of the number of resonators. The insertion loss decreases with the increase of the number of reflector layers but the bandwidth is not much affected by the number of reflector layers. Ladder Filter and SCF with membrane layer show the spurious response due to spurious resonance properties. Ladder filter shows better skirt-selectivity characteristics in bandwidth but SCF shows better characteristics in insertion loss.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.9
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• pp.560-562
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• 2014

Broadband power divider operating over the frequency band assigned for all domestic mobile communications is designed and implemented. The implemented power divider with 20Watts power rating has the maximum insertion loss of 3.49dB, input reflection coefficient of below -18.48dB and output reflection coefficient of below -20.2dB, above 24.7dB isolation and -141.2dBc of 3rd PIMD over the operating frequency of 810 ~ 2620MHz.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.389-393
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• 2009

In this paper, the single patch microstrip antenna and gap coupled broadband microstrip patch antenna using FDTD(Finite Difference Time Domain method) are analyzed. Mur's 2nd absorbing boundary condition to minimize reflected wave is applied. Return loss, voltage standing wave ratio, and input impedance by the length and width of driving patch, the length and width of parasitic patch, and the distance between driving patch and parasitic patch have been analyzed. Design parameters and radiation patterns of broadband antenna have been also shown.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.929-934
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• 2016

In this paper, we studied the design and fabrication of array antenna at around 1.8 GHz band. To improve of frequency properties of antenna, single feed microstrip patch antenna was simulated by HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator). A $1{\times}2$ array antenna of 1.8 GHz for LTE band was designed and fabricated by photolithography on an FR4 substrate (dielectric constant of 4.4 and thickness of 0.8 mm). The fabricated antenna was analyzed by network analyzer. The measured results agree well with the simulations, which confirmed the validity of this study. The fabricated $1{\times}2$ array antenna showed a center frequency, the minimum return loss and impedance were 1.82GHz, -30.5dB, and $49.6{\Omega}$ respectively.