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Use of Sleeve Baluns to Improve the Radiation Pattern of a Broadband Biconical Antenna (슬리브 발룬을 활용한 광대역 바이코니컬 안테나의 방사패턴 개선 연구)

  • Soily, Srabonty;Kim, Dong-Woo;Oh, Soon-Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.563-570
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    • 2022
  • We designed a biconical antenna with sleeve baluns that exhibited an improved radiation pattern from 3-40 GHz. In the antenna, the edges of the ring of the upper cone are blended to a cylinder. Sleeve baluns operating at specific frequencies are connected to the antenna to minimize leakage currents on the surface of the feeding coaxial cable. The radiation pattern was improved with the sleeve baluns, and the angular 3-dB beamwidth ranged from 67.1-101.1° over 3-40 GHz, which is much broader than the 21-99° of the conventional antenna.

A Novel CPW Balanced Distributed Amplifier Using Broadband Impedance-Transforming MEMS Baluns

  • Lee, Sanghyo
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.610-612
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    • 2013
  • A novel balanced distributed amplifier (DA) was proposed using novel impedance transforming MEMS baluns. The impedance transforming MEMS balun is matched to $50{\Omega}$ at one input port and $25{\Omega}$ at two output ports. It is based on the electric field mode-change method, thus it is strongly independent of frequency and very compact. The novel balanced DA consists of two $25{\Omega}$-matched DAs and these are combined by $50{\Omega}$-to-$25{\Omega}$ baluns. Theoretically, it has two times wider bandwidth and power capability than the conventional DA. So as to verify the proposed concept, we designed and fabricated a conventional DA and the proposed one using 0.15-${\mu}m$ GaAs pHEMT technology.

Technologies for RF System in Package (SIP)

  • Mathews, Doug
    • Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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    • 2003.09a
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    • pp.19-39
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    • 2003
  • Embedded Laminate Embedded RF Functional Blocks.Base Library of Laminate Embedded Filters and Baluns developed for 2.4GHz Applications -S-Parameters are provided at connection points -Utilizes a low cost 2 core construction.Statistical Variation Study in Report Phase.Measurements over variants show solid performance.Filters and Baluns are available for customer use.Laminate Embedded RF Functions - Various Filters, BALUNs, couplers, etc. for Bluetooth, 802.11, and Cellular.LTCC Embedded RF Functions - Various Filters, BALLNs, Diplexers, Antenna Switches, couplers, etc. for Bluetooth, 802.11, and Cellular.Eulbedded Passives - Various Inductor topologies Performance different than ideal or discrete inductor Must look at inductor performance in overall RF function - Working on embedded ceramic capacitors in laminate . Embedded Shields - Program in place to identify and define key design rules

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The Design of Broadband balun with good phase balance using ${\lambda}/4$ shorted stub (${\lambda}/4$ 단락 스터브를 이용한 우수한 위상 특성을 갖는 발룬 회로의 설계)

  • Cho, Il-Hyun;Lee, Moon-Que;Kim, Hyeong-Seok
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07c
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    • pp.2309-2311
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    • 2005
  • A broadband microstrip balun is proposed and designed using a ${\lambda}/4$short-stub in order to compensate phase imbalance. For the demonstration, two baluns are proposed and designed using a ${\lambda}/4$ shorted stub. One is a modified form of the conventional Wilkinson balun, and the other is a modified ring hybrid. Baluns are implemented on TLX-9 substrate of which the dielectric constant is 2.54 and the thickness is 0.5mm. The measurements show a bandwidth of 500MHz at the center frequency of 2GHz.

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An MMIC Doubly Balanced Resistive Mixer with a Compact IF Balun (소형 IF 발룬이 내장된 MMIC 이중 평형 저항성 혼합기)

  • Jeong, Jin-Cheol;Yom, In-Bok;Yeom, Kyung-Whan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.1350-1359
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a wideband doubly balanced resistive mixer fabricated using $0.5{\mu}m$ GaAs p-HEMT process. Three baluns are employed in the mixer. LO and RF baluns operating over an 8 to 20 GHz range were implemented with Marchand baluns. In order to reduce chip size, the Marchand baluns were realized by the meandering multicoupled line and inductor lines were inserted to compensate for the meandering effect. IF balun was implemented through a DC-coupled differential amplifier. The size of IF balun is $0.3{\times}0.5\;mm^2$ and the measured amplitude and phase unbalances were less than 1 dB and $5^{\circ}$, respectively from DC to 7 GHz. The mixer is $1.7{\times}1.8\;mm^2$ in size, has a conversion loss of 5 to 11 dB, and an output third order intercept(OIP3) of +10 to +15 dBm at 16 dBm LO power for the operating bandwidth.

A New Design Approach for Asymmetric Coupled-Section Marchand Balun

  • Park, Ji An;Cho, Choon Sik;Lee, Jae Wook
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.54-60
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    • 2014
  • A systematic design for asymmetric coupled-section Marchand baluns is presented. Asymmetrically coupled transmission lines in multilayer configuration are exploited for constructing Marchand baluns. Design equations for characteristic impedance and electrical length of asymmetrical coupled transmission lines are derived for establishing a systematic design procedure. Novel Marchand balun based on these design equations is composed of two identical asymmetrical coupled transmission lines. However, contrary to the general conventional design approach where ranges for characteristic impedances of coupled lines are ambiguously capitalized, values for characteristic impedance and length are explicitly expressed. Our approach is fundamentally different from the design method using coupling coefficients where solution for coupling coefficient is inherently restricted. To verify the proposed method, one design example is performed for wideband Marchand balun in multilayer configuration, and is fabricated for verifying the design procedure proposed. Maintaining the return loss more than 10 dB, the bandwidth is measured from 0.43 to 1.0 GHz, where $S_{21}$ and $S_{31}$ show better than -4 dB. The measured phase and amplitude imbalances illustrate 0.5 dB and ${\pm}5^{\circ}$, respectively.

Site Attenuations of the KSRI Open Area Test Site (야외시험장의 시험장감쇠량)

  • 정연춘;강태원;강인구;김기채;김정환;정낙삼
    • The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.14-19
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    • 1990
  • A site attenuation measurement system has been developed and evaluated. The system uses selfresonant dipole antennas and baluns. Using the system we measured the site attenuations of the KSRI open area test site. The measured results agree with calculated data within $\pm$3dB , so the site can be used for EMI/EMC measurements and antenna calibrations.

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A GaAs MMIC Single-Balanced Upconverting Mixer With Built-in Active Balun for PCS Applications (PCS 용 MMIC Single-blanced upconverting 주파수 혼합기 설계 및 제작)

  • 강현일;이원상;정기웅;오재응
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.35D no.4
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 1998
  • An MMIC single-balanced upconverting mixer for PCS application has been successfully developed using an MMIC process employed by 1 .mu. ion implanted GaAs MESFET and passive lumped elements consisting of spiral inductor, Si3N4 MIM capacitors and NiCr resistors. The configuration of the mixer presented in this paper is two balanced cascode FET mixers with common-source self-bias circuits for single power supply operation. The dimension of the fabricated circuit including two active baluns intermodulation characteristic with two-tone excitation are also measured, showing -28.17 dBc at IF power of -30 dBm.

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