• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1104-1112
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• 2013

This paper presents a wideband Colpitts voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) with nanosecond startup time and a center frequency of 8.35 GHz for a new bubble-type motion detector that has a bubble-layer detection zone at the specific distance from itself. The VCO circuit consists of two parts; one is a negative resistance part with a HEMT device and Colpitts feedback structure and the other is a resonator part with a varactor diode and shorted shunt microstrip line. The shorted shunt microstrip line and series capacitor are utilized to compensate for the input reactance of the packaged HEMT that changes from capacitive values to inductive values at 8.1 GHz due to parasitic package inductance. By tuning the feedback capacitors which determine negative resistance values, this paper also investigates startup time improvement with the negative resistance variation and tuning bandwidth improvement with the reactance slope variation of the negative resistance part. The VCO measurement shows the tuning bandwidth of 2.3 GHz(28 %), the output power of 4.1~7.5 dBm and the startup time of less than 2 nsec.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.46-52
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• 2009

In this paper, a novel VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) structure is proposed to achieve the characteristic of low phase noise and a wide frequency tuning range. The proposed scheme adopts an impedance transforming technique to change a series resonance into a parallel resonance for maximizing the susceptance slope parameter. The manufactured VCO shows a frequency tuning bandwidth of 600MHz from 10.1GHz to 10.7GHz with a tuning voltage varying from 0 to 9V, an excellent phase noise below -119dBc/Hz@1MHz offset. The harmonic suppression is measured above 28dB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.7
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• pp.82-88
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• 2014

An available capacitance increasing phase-locked loop(PLL) with two voltage controlled oscillator gains has been proposed. In this paper, the available capacitance of loop filter is increased by using two positive/negative gains of voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). It results in 1/10 reduction in the size of loop filter capacitor. It has been designed with a 1.8V $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The simulation results show that the proposed PLL has the same phase noise characteristic and a locking time of conventional PLL.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1104-1110
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• 1999

When a FM-CW radar is used to measure the target distance, the nonlinearity relationship between the VCO control voltage and the output frequency makes an adverse effect on the measurement accuracy. Recently, many nonlinearity correction schemes using signal processing techniques and dedicated hardwares have been studied. This paper presents a signal processing technique to compensate for the VCO nonlinearity using a reference signal. To demonstrate the validity of the presented technique, several experiments were conducted and the results show reduction of the distortion in the range profile and the resolution improvement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.7B
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• pp.891-894
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 능동 배열 안테나에서 RF 대신 중간주파수를 이용하여 빔 추적을 하는 방법이 연구되었다. 안테나의 각 배열은 전압제어 발진기, 위상추적기, 혼합기와 결합되어 있으며 혼합기는 안테나 상에서 직접 RF 신호를 직접 중간주파수 신호로 변환시킨다. 전압제어 발진기 입력은 위상추적기에 의하여 조절되며 배열 안테나의 주사범위는 위상추적기와 전압제어발진기에 의하여 결정되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.863-871
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• 2003

In this paper, we design a high stable Ku-band phase-locked dielectric resonant microwave oscillator with the gate voltage controls of p-HEMT. By adapting the nonlinear equivalent elements which affects phase noise of microwave oscillator, we optimize the nonlinear elements of p-HEMT to have low phase noise operation. Using the scattering parameters according to bias voltages, we designed the gate voltage control microwave dielectric resonant oscillator and phase-locked loop circuits is applied to have the high stable operations. Designed microwave oscillator as a local oscillator of digital microwave communication shows that output power is 9.17dBm at 10.75GHz and it's phase noise is -88dBc/Hz at 10KHz offset frequency.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.46-52
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• 1985

The modulo PLL was applied to the implementation of frequency synthesis with the narrow channel spacing, many channels and three different frequency bands. So , VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) designed In this paper is suitable for the device with three different frequency bands 10Hz, 40Hz, 400Hz channel spacing, and 512 channels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.331-331
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• 2004

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.94-100
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• 2014

In this paper, a design of low power Current-Reuse Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) which has wide tuning range about 1.95 GHz ~ 3.15 GHz is presented. Class-C type is applied to improve phase noise and 2-Step Auto Amplitude Calibration (AAC) is used for minimizing the imbalance of differential VCO output voltage which is main issue of Current-Reuse VCO. The mismatch of differential VCO output voltage is presented about 1.5mV ~ 4.5mV. This mismatch is within 0.6 % compared with VCO output voltage. Proposed Current-Reuse VCO is designed using CMOS $0.13{\mu}m$ process. Supply voltage is 1.2 V and current consumption is 2.6 mA at center frequency. The phase noise is -116.267 dBc/Hz at 2.3GHz VCO frequency at 1MHz offset. The layout size is $720{\times}580{\mu}m^2$.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 샘플링 위상검파를 이용하여 고안정 마이크로파발진기를 설계하고 3체배시켜 30㎓대의 발진기를 설계하였다. 설계된 발진기는 병렬귀환 유전체공진과, 바랙터 다이오드를 이용하여 전압제어하므로써 자유발진 신호를 안정화 시켰다. 발진기의 저위상/고안정 특성을 위하여 마이크로파 샘플링 위상 검파회로를 이용하여 출력 주파수를 저위상/고안정 특성을 가지게 하였다. 병렬귀환 유전체공진발진기에 의한 마이크로파 샘플링 위상동기발진기는 발진주파수 9.733㎓에서 10.17㏈m의 출력값을 보였으며 3체배된 29.2㎓ 발진기의 위상잡음은 -95㏈c/Hz @10KHz와 -105㏈c/Hz @100KHz의 우수한 특성을 나타내었다.