• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.83-91
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• 2012

An RF energy detector for spectrum sensing in TV white space transceiver is presented. It is based on an RF active filtering technique that comprises a low-noise amplifier with a frequency-translation high-pass filtering feedfoward loop, which attenuates the unwanted sideband energy and only passes the wanted band energy. Unlike the conventional architecture, a new architecture that can attenuate both sidebands at the same time is proposed. A simplified system modeling method is presented to assess the non-ideality effects on the RF energy detector performances. System behavioral simulations demonstrate that the proposed architecture can be instrumental for realizaing a RF energy detector circuit in CMOS.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.660-665
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• 2018

Research into underwater wireless networks that enable the monitoring and controlling of the ocean environments has been continuing for disaster prevention and military proposes, as well as for the exploitation of ocean resources throughout the world. A research group led by Hoseo university has been studying a distributed underwater monitoring and controlling network. In this study, we developed an interpolator for acoustic communication between an underwater base station controller and underwater base station, which is included in this network. The underwater acoustic communication provided by this network defines four links whose sampling rates are different. Low power consumption is one of the most important requirements. Therefore, we adopted CIC interpolators, which are known to act as filters with a low power consumption, and some CIC interpolators with an appropriate changing rate were selected depending on the link. However, these interpolators have a large passband drop and wide transition region. To solve these problems, we added a compensator and half-band filter. After verifying the algorithm by using Matlab, we designed and verified it with Verilog-HDL in a ModelSim environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.900-909
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• 1999

The receiving part of the RF system for the digital TRS base stations is developed in this paper. Based on the system specifications, the structure of the RF system is accomplished and its block diagram is drawn. The RF system is implemented according to these block diagrams. Subsequently the RF band-pass filter, the low noise amplifier, the automatic level controlled attenuator, the frequency synthesizer and other components for the system are designed and implemented, and a main board to integrate these modules is also manufactured. To lower the noise floor of the system and suppress the RF spurious noise, a PCB layout is performed carefully. For each module consisting of the RF system and the entire system, the performance tests are accomplished to check the specifications.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.11
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• pp.29-34
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• 1999

In this paper, a current comparative frequency automatic tuning circuit for the CMOS gm-C bandpass filters are designed with the new architecture. And also, when the designed circuit is compared to the typical tuning circuit, the designed circuit has very simple architecture that is composed of the current comparator and charge pump and operating in 3V power supply. The proposed tuning circuit automatically compensates the difference between the operating current of the transconductor and the specified reference Current. Using CMOS 0.8um parameter a biquad gm-C bandpass filter with center frequency($f_\circ$=60MHz) is designed, and according to the transistor size the variation of the center frequency is simulated. As the HSPICE simulation results, the tuning operation of the proposed current comparative frequency automatic tuning circuit is verified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.104-107
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• 2018

최근 촬영 기기의 기술발전으로 인해 디지털 영상의 해상도가 증가함에 따라 선명한 디지털 영상에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 이러한 요구에도 불구하고 디지털 영상 내 가우시안 잡음 (gaussian noise)은 촬영기기를 통해 영상 획득 및 처리 과정에서 발생하여 화질을 열화 시킨다. 디지털 이미지에서 발생하는 가우시안 잡음을 제거하기 위해서 기존의 저대역 통과 필터 (low-pass filter: LPF)를 사용하면 잡음은 제거되지만, 블러링 현상 (blurring phenomenon)이 나타난다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 소벨 연산자 (sobel operator)를 사용하여 영상 내 에지 맵 (edge-map)을 생성하여 에지 영역과 동질 영역을 구분한다. 에지영역에서는 약한 저역 필터 (weak low-pass filter)를 사용하고, 그 외의 이미지 영역에서는 강한 저역 필터 (strong low-pass filter)를 사용하는 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 그리고 다양한 이미지에 대하여 기존 알고리듬과 제안한 알고리듬의 적용한 결과를 통해 주관적 화질 비교하였고 객관적 지표로 최대 신호 대 잡음비 (peak signal-to noise ratio: PSNR)와 구조 유사성 (structural similarity: SSIM)을 사용하여 성능을 평가하였다. 실험결과를 통해 제안된 알고리듬이 잡음 제거 및 외곽선 보존의 우수함을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.172-177
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• 2004

In this paper, DGS(Defected Ground Structure) is applied to multi-layer structure using LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics). Sprial DGS is adopted in order for size-reduction and higher quality factor, the multi-layer DGS has the same characteristics as the planar DGS. Multi-layer bandpass filter of new shape is confiured using two multi-layer spiral DGS and is designed with no via-hole for the simple process. 5.25 GHz Wireless LAN bandpass filter is designed and fabricated, the insertion loss of the filter is measured less than 1.5 dB, and the size is 2.0 mm${\times}$1.2 mm${\times}$1.1 mm(L${\times}$W${\times}$H).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.899-905
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• 2001

This paper presents a triple-mode dielectric resonator far low loss and simple structure filter design. The BPF(Band Pass Filter) was designed using HFSS simulation results an4 fabricated using proposed resonators. The filter (3-stage BPF) has an insertion loss of about 0.9 dB at the center frequency of 1.93 GHz and a 3 dB bandwidth of about 25 MHz. If more complex characteristic is required, slot coupling between resonators can be used. Especially, the proposed BPF can be applied to the next generation mobile communication IMT-2000 system.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.20-40
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• 2003

Since unloaded Q-value of a high-temperature superconductor(HTS) filter is very high, a bandpass filter(BPF) and a lowpass filter(LPF) with an increase of pole numbers can be fabricated without an increase of an insertion loss(IL) ; recently a 70-pole BPF is developed in USA. They have an abrupt skirt property and an excellent attenuation level for out-of band. Moreover, they can be miniaturized when lumped element resonators or the slow-wave characteristic are used. Technology of fabricating a HTS epitaxial film as well as a film of a 4 inch area also makes the planar type filter with a various structure and an enhanced power handling capability possible. Recently, the HTS filter subsystems composed of a planar-type HTS filters, a GaAs-based LNA and a mini-cryocooler are developed. The extended receiver front- end subsystems for mobile radio communications decrease the noise-figure level of the communication system and the frequency interference interacted adjacent bands, and increase the efficiency of frequency and the capacity of communication system. In this paper, theory for developing the HTS filter, its kinds, its design rules, its characteristics are reviewed. The feature of the research and market trends related to the HTS filter systems for the receiver front-end subsystem of mobile base station are surveyed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.990-995
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• 2000

As the interest in the millimeter wave frequency (30 ~300 GHz) increases, Nonradiative Dielectric (NRD) guide is being more attractive due to its low loss characteristics. Most of millimeter wave components, which can be realized with waveguide, can also be realized with NRD guide since NRD guide has similar dispersion characteristics and field patterns to waveguide. Previously, Variational Method was applied to the gap discontinuity problem to design a gap-coupled NRD bandpass filter. In this paper, the design procedure was simplified by replacing the air gap region with an equivalent circuit model of an evanescent waveguide using the fact that the NRD guide has a similar structure with a dielectric-filled metal waveguide. Prior to applying this design method to the bandpass filter of millimeter wave frequency range, a bandpass filter of which center frequency is 10 GHz(3-Pole, 0.1 dB ripple, 2% fractional bandwidth) was designed and fabricated. The measured result agrees with one simulated with HFSS within an error range of a fabrication.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.148-150
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• 2002

In this paper, a 5-coupled BPF with teflon substrate is presented. In general, for less than 1 GHz frequency, the narrow bandwidth as well as the good characteristic in the rejection frequency band could be realized using lumped elements. However, for higher than 1 GHz frequency, the distributed elements such as microstrip lines need to be used for the design of the desired BPF For less than 2 GHz, the FR4 shows good filter characteristic at low cost. However, in the range of 2 GHz ~ 10 GHz, the filters with FR4 show a big difference between simulation and measurement results. Thus, in such a high frequency region, the teflon is more preferred to the FR4. The center frequency (fc) of the proposed filter is 2.3 GHz, the insertin loss (IL) is 1.2 dB, the return loss (RL) is 30 dB, bandwidth (BW) is 100 MHz, and the size is 8.3 cm $\times$ 4.9 cm.