• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.403-409
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• 2013

In this work, a CMOS two stage differential power amplifier which includes Marchand balun, transformer and injection-locked buffer is presented. The power amplifier is targeted for 70 GHz frequency band and fabricated using 65 nm technology. The measurement results show 8.5 dB maximum voltage gain at 71.3 GHz and 7.3 GHz 3 dB bandwidth. The measured maximum output power is 8.2 dBm, input $P_{1dB}$ is -2.8 dBm, output $P_{1dB}$ is 4.6 dBm and maximum power added efficiency is 4.9 %. The power amplifier consumes 102 mW DC power from 1.2 V supply voltage.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.408-411
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• 2021

This paper presents a new reflectarray antenna capable with 1-bit switchable capability for W-band beamforming network. The proposed antenna has been optimized using two unit-cells with sizes of 1.0 mm and 1.3 mm to form a total number of 193 radiating elements on a square aperture surface of length 30 mm. These radiating elements are spaced 0.5 wavelengths apart and fed by a 15 dBi pyramidal horn antenna as the feed antenna placed 53 mm away from the aperture center. The proposed reflectarray achieves a realized peak gain of 22.52 dBi, a half-power beamwidth of 5.1° in both E- and H-planes at the test frequency of 80 GHz and operates over a wide bandwidth from 74 GHz to 90 GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.152-163
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• 2010

In this paper, a cavity-backed high gain dual band microstrip antenna with Frequency Selective Surface space(FSS) for WLAN is proposed. The proposed antenna that operates in IEEE 802.11a/b bands with similar radiation pattern and gain is fabricated on RO4003 substrate with a dielectric constant of 3.38. The size of the antenna is $71.5{\times}42.0{\times}6.6\;mm^3$, and the FSS size is $120.0{\times}120.02\;mm^3$. The ground plane size including cavity is $150.0{\times}145.0\;mm^3$. The antenna is fed by coaxial cable. The simulated bandwidths of the antenna are 2.369~2.517 GHz and 5.608~5.833 GHz for VSWR<2. The gains are 11.23 dBi and 12.60 dBi, respectively, for the lower and upper bands.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07c
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• pp.2052-2054
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• 2004

The TX/RX broadband L-type circular polarization antenna using LTCC at K/Ka band has been presented. This antenna has been analyzed in compensation for LTCC with relative permittivity 5.2 and could have been integrated with RF component. As the measured 10dB impedance circular polarization bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 7%(20.8GHz${\sim}$22.2GHz) at the K band and 2.3%(30.9GHz to 31.6GHz) at the Ka band. Also the gain of the antenna is -0.7${\sim}$3.05dBi at the K band and -2.8${\sim}$1dBi at the Ka band. The purpose of the research is to design an efficient antenna structure for satellite communication at K/Ka band. the antenna should be used for both TX and RX frequency bands. The antenna will be mounted on LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) so that it can be integrated with other RF circuits. This research is important because of the following reasons. 1) The frequency ranges of satellite communication tends to move up to higher frequency such as Ka band or milimeter wave band. 2) Design of antenna for smaller size, lighter weight and less loss is preferred by most RF engineers. 3) Antennas on LTCC enables to integrate the antenna with other RF circuits, and thus, one can reduce the size and loss of the RF system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.356-359
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• 2006

A monolithic SiGe HBT variable gain driver amplifier(VGDA) with high dB-linear gain control and high linearity has been developed as a driver amplifier with ground-shielded microstrip lines for 5-GHz transmitters. The VGDA consists of three blocks such as the cascode gain-control stage, fixed-gain output stage, and voltage control block. The circuit elements were optimized by using the Agilent Technologies' ADSs. The VGDA was implemented in STMicroelectronics' 0.35${\mu}m$ Si-BiCMOS process. The VGDA exhibits a dynamic gain control range of 34 dB with the control voltage range from 0 to 2.3 V in 5.15-5.35 GHz band. At 5.15 GHz, maximum gain and attenuation are 10.5 dB and -23.6 dB, respectively. The amplifier also produces a 1-dB gain-compression output power of -3 dBm and output third-order intercept point of 7.5 dBm. Input/output voltage standing wave ratios of the VGDA keep low and constant despite change in the gain-control voltage.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.461-466
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• 2019

In this paper, we have studied the improvement of gain and bandwidth characteristics by using double feeding and L-shaped inset feed line matching circuit in microstrip stacked patch antenna which is widely used to broaden the gain of general microstrip antenna. The proposed structure is composed of two feeding edges of the main patch antenna, each of them are connected to a feeding line having an L shaped inset feeder. And the parasitic patch is placed at a proper distance above the main patch. The size of the main patch is designed so that the resonance frequency is close to the center frequency of the target frequency band. The experimental results show that the bandwidth was increased more than 180MHz in the 2.3-2.7 GHz band, which is more interesting than the single feed, and the gain improvement of 2.5dBi was obtained at 2.7GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.306-313
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• 2012

In order to enhance the isolation level between two dual-band E-slot microstrip patch antennas, EBG structure which operates in UMTS Tx(1.92~1.98 GHz) and Rx(2.11~2.17 GHz) band is proposed. The proposed EBG structure made with a periodic array of two different size EBG unit cells which has a modified mushroom-type for isolation improvement between two antennas. They do not share a common ground plane of the microstrip patch antenna. Overall size of the fabricated antenna is $210.5mm{\times}117mm$. The two different EBG unit cell sizes are $15.6mm{\times}4mm$ and $17.4mm{\times}4mm$, respectively. It was etched on the FR-4 substrate(thickness=3.93 mm, ${\varepsilon}_r$=4.6). The experiment results show that the isolation level between antennas in Tx/Rx band were improved by about 9 dB and 12 dB, respectively, through the use of the proposed EBG structure.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2018

In this paper, a microstrip-fed triple-band monopole antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications was proposed. The proposed antenna is consist of two arc-shaped and one strip line structure, then get the three current path and then designed in order to get triple resonant characteristics. We carried out simulation about parameters. Taking account of coupling effect, Adjusted the length of the two arc-shaped and one strip line, we get the optimized parameters. The proposed antenna is fabricated on an FR-4 substrate, the dielectric constant is 4.4, and total size is $23.5mm(W1){\times}32.0mm(L1){\times}1.0mm(t)$, and its proposed antenna size is $21.0mm(W6){\times}31.0mm(L7)$. From the measured results, return loss of the proposed antenna satisfied return loss 927 MHz (1.844~2.771 GHz), 926 MHz (3.33~4.256 GHz), and 1,415 MHz (5.13~6.545 GHz). And measured results of gain and radiation patterns displayed for operating bands.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1587_1588
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• 2009

In this paper, PCB embedded balanced-to-unbalamced duplexer using coupled LC resonator was introduced for low cost dualband WiMax front-end-module application. In order to obtain the function of bandpass filter and balun transformer, proposed duplexer was configured by using magnetically coupled LC resonator. Out-of-band suppression was enhanced by applying two m-Derived transform circuits to obtain transmission zeros at 2GHz and 4.8GHz. In order to reduce the size of embedded duplexer, BaSrTiO3 (BST) composite high Dk RCC film was applied to improve the capacitance density. This high Dk film provided the capacitance density of 12.2 pF/mm2. The simulation results shows that fabricated duplexer had an insertion loss of 2.9dB and 5.5dB and return loss of 15dB and 16dB for 2.5GHz~2.6GHz and 3.5GHz~3.6GHz, respectively. The maximum magnitude and phase imbalance were 0.01dB and 0.17dB, and 1degree and 2degree in its passband, respectively. The out-of-band suppression was observed approximately 29dB and 40dB below 1.9GHz and over 4.5GHz, respectively. It has a volume of 6 mm $\times$ 7 mm $\times$ 0.7 mm (height).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.2 s.117
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• pp.158-165
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• 2007

In this paper, the circularly polarized $4{\times}4$ array antenna is proposed for the X-band. A single antenna consists of square patch and unequal cross-aperture coupled feeding. The RHCP(Right Handed Circularly Polarization) is generated by unequal cross-aperture coupled feeding. By reducing space among elements of way antenna from 0.8 ${\lambda}_0$ to 0.45 ${\lambda}_0$, the mounting area of array antenna is miniaturized. The $2{\times}2$ array antenna is designed using sequential rotation feeding network. The good level of gain, axial ratio, and impedance bandwidth are achieved. The $4{\times}4$ array antenna is extended by ${\lambda}/4$ transformer and T-junction power divider. The simulated maximum radiation gain is 15.09 dBi at 10 GHz. The simulated 3 dB Axial Ratio bandwidth is from 9.05 to 10.4 GHz(13.5%). Also the measured impedance bandwidth($VSWR{\leq}2$) of manufactured $4{\times}4$ array antenna is from 8.45 to 11.84 GHz(33.9%). The measured maximum radiation gain is 11.10 dBi at 10 GHz. The measured 3 dB Axial Ratio bandwidth is from 9.42 to 10.47 GHz(10.5%).