• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.63-72
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• 2013

The ultra-wideband (UWB) spectrum available for commercial applications has offered us an opportunity to achieve high-speed wireless communications and high-accuracy location applications. As one of key research areas in UWB technology, a lot of innovative broadband and miniaturization techniques for UWB antennas have been greatly invented and developed for years. This paper reviews the development of UWB antenna design in the past decade. Starting with a brief introduction of the specific requirements and promising applications of UWB systems, the unique design challenges of UWB antennas are highlighted. Next, the important milestones of UWB antenna designs are briefed. After that, a variety of planar UWB antennas invented for broadband operation, miniaturization, and multiple functions are introduced. Last, the comments on the development of UWB antennas in future are shared.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.770-775
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• 2004

Although $High-T_c $superconducting HTS antennas have high efficiency and high gain, narrow bandwidth due to the high Q is the major limitation for application of satellite communication and mobile communication. Defining bandwidth as the frequency range over which standing wave ratio (SWR) is 2:1 or less, HTS antenna bandwidths are typically less than 1 %. Thus considerable effort has been focused on developing HTS antennas for broadband operation. In this work the HTS antenna array, using the bipin antenna which consisted of two triangle-radiation patches, was designed and fabricated using a ${YBa}_2{Cu}_3{O}_7x (YBCO)$ superconducting thin film on a MgO substrate for broadband operation. Also gold antennas with the same dimension as our HTS antennas were fabricated on the MgO substrate for the comparison. Experimental results for both antennas were reported in terms of radiation patterns, return losses, bandwidths and other various characteristics. The center frequency of HTS antennas was 20.28 GHz and the bandwidth obtained was significant 10 %.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.1050-1057
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 주상변압기 내부에서 부분 방전이 발생할 때 주상변압기의 1차측 또는 2차측 전극의 부싱부분에서 방사되는 방사 전자파(2~5 GHz)를 측정하는데 사용하기 위한 광대역 안테나로 이중 원추형의 광대역 안테나를 검토하였다. 이론 해석에는 FDTD 법을 이용한 상용툴을 사용하였으며, 이중 원추형 광대역 안테나의 반경, 높이 변화에 따른 반사손실 특성을 계산하여 이중 원추형 광대역 안테나의 구조 변화가 반사손실 특성에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 그 결과, 이중 원추형 광대역 안테나의 반사손실 특성에 대한 최적 구조가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한, 이중 원추형 광대역 안테나는 다이폴 안테나와 유사한 방사지향성 패턴을 나타내고 있으며, 주상변압기에서 방사되는 방사 전자파를 측정하는데 매우 적합하다. 실험을 통하여 이론해석의 타당성도 검증하였다.

• 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도학회 2001년도 High Temperature Superconductivity Vol.XI
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• pp.38-38
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• 2001

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제51권12호
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• pp.573-577
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• 2002

We designed wideband HTS antennas which consists of two triangle -radiation patches using a $YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-X}$ (YBCO) superconducting thin film. The major limitation of high-Tc superconducting (HTS) microstrip antennas is the narrow bandwidth due to the high Q and thin substrate. Defining bandwidth as the frequency range over which standing wave ratio (SWR) 2:1 or less, HTS antenna bandwidths are typically 0.85 % to 1.1 %. Thus considerable effort has been focused on developing antennas for broadband operation. To calculate input impedance and design of the broadband HTS antennas a moment method technique was used. The HTS antenna fabricated in this work was designed for K-band, which is useful band for satellite to satellite communications. The bandwidth obtained was a significant 6.7 % and the other measured performance of our HTS antenna, including the bandwidth, radiation Pattern, efficiency, standing wave ratio (SWR) and return losses was reported.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.523-526
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• 2002

We designed wideband HTS antennas which consists of two triangle-radiation patches using a YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$\sub$7-x/ (YBCO) superconducting thin film. The major limitation of high-Tc superconducting (HTS) microstrip antennas is the narrow bandwidth due to the high Q and thin substrate. Defining bandwidth as the frequency range over which standing wave ratio (SWR) 2:1 or less, HTS antenna bandwidths are typically 0.85% to 1.1%. Thus considerable effort has been focused on developing antennas for broadband operation. To calculate input impedance and design of the broadband HTS antennas a moment method technique was used. The HTS antenna fabricated in this work was designed for K-band, which is useful band for satellite-to-satellite communications. The bandwidth obtained was a significant 6.7% and the other measured performance of our HTS antenna, including the bandwidth, radiation Pattern, efficiency, standing wave ratio (SWR) and return losses was reported.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

This paper introduces a technique to obtain the broadband characteristics of circularly polarized antennas using an L-shaped probe. A waveguide antenna is suitable for obtaining high gain and handling convenience in some applications; however, the asymmetrical structure of the L-shaped probe results in cross-polarization and frequency dependence on the field distribution of higher-order modes (HOM). In addition to the basic characteristics of a waveguide antenna with an L-shaped probe, the author discusses some techniques to reduce the HOM and cross-polarization. As a result, the 3-dB axial ratio (AR) is obtained with the fundamental mode even when the frequency is expanded to the region for HOM of TM. This reduction is mainly due to the cutoff structure to the TM mode around the short wall of the waveguide. Furthermore, some aperture modification techniques can reduce the cross-polarization in a wide range of angles in the radiation pattern. Such techniques and their mechanisms are discussed in this paper. The obtained performance shows that the proposed antennas have a wide range of angles of 3-dB AR in the radiation pattern, broadband characteristics in impedance and AR, and low variation in group velocity.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.884-891
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• 2016

The wireless mesh network (WMN) has attracted significant interests as a broadband wireless network to provide ubiquitous wireless access for broadband services. Especially with incorporating multiple orthogonal channels and multiple directional antennas into the WMN, each node can communicate with its neighbor nodes simultaneously without interference between them. However, as we allow more freedom, we need a more sophisticated algorithm to fully utilize it and developing such an algorithm is not easy in general. In this paper, we study a joint channel assignment, link scheduling, routing, and rate control problem for the WMN with multiple orthogonal channels and multiple directional antennas. This problem is inherently hard to solve, since the problem is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear problem (MINLP). However, despite of its inherent difficulty, we develop an algorithm to solve the problem by using the generalized Benders decomposition approach [2]. The simulation results show the proposed algorithm provides the optimal solution to maximize the network utility, which is defined as the sum of utilities of all sessions.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 UWB 통신 시스템에 사용할 수 있는 소형 입체형 구조인 이중 원추형의 광대역 안테나를 검토하였다. 이중 원추형 광대역 안테나의 반경, 높이, 단락판의 개수 등의 안테나 구조 변화에 따른 반사손실 특성을 FDTD 법을 사용하여 계산하였다. 그 결과, 안테나의 구조 변화에 따른 광대역 안테나의 최적 구조가 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, 최적 구조에서 안테나의 방사 지향성은 다이폴 안테나와 유사한 8자형 방사지향성 패턴을 나타내고 있었다. 반사손실의 측정 결과를 이론 계산치와 비교하여 이론 해석의 타당성도 검토하였다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.19-30
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• 2007

본 논문은 광대역 무선 액세스를 위하여 다중 수신안테나를 갖는 OFDMA 시스템의 타이밍 딜레이 추정기의 구현 복잡도를 낮추는 방안을 제안한다. 타이밍 딜레이 값을 추정하기 위해 각 수신안테나 별로 푸리에 연산과 역 푸리에 연산을 수행하므로, 다중 수신안테나를 사용하는 경우에는 계산 복잡도가 큰 단점이 있다. 먼저, 각 안테나에 수신된 레인징 심볼의 위상을 회전시키는 구조를 제안함으로써 각 안테나의 역 푸리에 연산을 제거하여 구현 복잡도를 크게 개선할 수 있다. 둘째로, N점/M구간 푸리에 연산을 수행하고 시간 대역 평균 전력 추정기 대신 주파수 대역 평균 전력 추정기를 포함한 구조를 제안함으로써 성능 저하 없이 복잡도를 크게 낮출 수 있다. 기존 방식에 대하여 제안된 두 가지 구조의 복잡도 개선량을 보여주고, 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 성능 비교를 실시한다.