• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.26-31
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• 2015

Axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth enhancement is achieved for a circularly polarized (CP) cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) using a wideband hybrid coupler (WHC) combined with dual probe feed. The presented WHC, comprised of a Wilkinson power divider and a wideband $90^{\circ}$ shifter, delivers good characteristics in terms of 3 dB power splitting and consistent $90^{\circ}$ (${\pm}5^{\circ}$) phase shifting over a wide bandwidth. In turn, the proposed CP DRA, for the employment of the WHC, in place of conventional designs, provides a significant enhancement on AR bandwidth and impedance matching. The antenna prototype with the WHC exhibits a 3 dB AR bandwidth of 48.66%, an impedance bandwidth of 52.5% for voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) ${\leq}2$, and a bandwidth of 44.66% for a gain of no less than 3 dBi. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed WHC is suitable for broadband CP DRA design.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.163-168
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• 2011

A Fabry-Perot cavity (FPC) antenna producing both high-gain and circularly-polarized (CP) behavior is proposed. To increase antenna gain and obtain CP characteristics, a superstrate composed of square patches with a pair of truncated corners is placed above the linearly polarized patch antenna with an approximately half-wavelength distance from the ground plane at the operating frequency. The proposed antenna has the advantages of high gain, a simple design, and an excellent boresight axial ratio over the operating frequency bandwidth. Moreover, used in an FPC antenna, the proposed superstrate converts a linear polarization produced by a patch antenna into a circular polarization. In addition, the cavity antenna produces left-hand circular-polarization and right-hand circular-polarization when a patch antenna inside the cavity generates x-direction and y-direction polarization, respectively. The measured and simulated results verify the performance of the antenna.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 비대칭 십자형 접지면 슬롯 구조를 갖는 원형 편파 마이크로스트립 안테나와 접지면 슬롯 구조를 재구성하여 편파 특성을 변환시키는 방안을 제안하였다. 접지면의 슬롯 구조에 의해 방사 소자의 전류 흐름이 교란되어 원형 편파가 발생되며, PIN 다이오드의 on/off 동작 상태를 조정하여 비대칭 십자형 슬롯의 구조를 대칭적으로 변환시켜 원형 편파 특성을 재구성할 수 있다. 제안된 안테나는 원형 편파 형성을 위한 perturbation이 접지면에 위치하므로, PIN 다이오드 상태 조정을 위한 바이어스 회로 또한 접지면에 위치하게 되어 구현의 복잡도가 낮아지며, 이로 인해 방사 패턴의 왜곡을 감소시킬 수 있다. 제안된 안테나는 2.4 GHz 대역의 동작 주파수에서 임피던스 대역폭 150 MHz, 축비 대역폭 35 MHz, 최대 안테나 이득 1.7 dBi의 특성을 나타내었다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2007

A design of circular polarized(CP) microstrip antenna with a fenced ground is proposed and the equivalent circuit is derived. The antenna consists of a square radiating patch with a pair of truncated comers, a bottom ground and a fenced ground. From conducted experiments, a patch size reduction using the metal fence as large as 25% from the conventional patch structure, has been obtained. The input admittance of the extracted equivalent circuit is shown to agree with that of the measurement. And the design parameters and performance of the proposed antenna are examined by analyzing the fields and circuit behaviors.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.299-305
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• 2014

A wideband circularly polarized (CP) antenna with a single feed is proposed for use in global navigation satellite systems. Its primary radiation elements are composed of two orthogonal bowtie dipoles, which are equipped with double-printed vacant-quarter rings to allow direct matching of the antenna to a single $50-{\Omega}$ coaxial line and to produce CP radiation. The crossed bowtie dipole is appropriately incorporated with a planar metallic reflector to produce the desired unidirectional radiation pattern as well as to achieve a wideband characteristic in terms of impedance matching and axial ratio (AR) bandwidths. The designed antenna was fabricated and measured. The prototype antenna with an overall 1.2-GHz frequency size of $0.48{\lambda}_o{\times}0.48{\lambda}_o{\times}0.25{\lambda}_o$ produced a measured ${\mid}S_{11}{\mid}$<-10 dB bandwidth of 1.05-1.79 GHz and a measured 3-dB AR bandwidth of 1.12-1.64 GHz. It also showed right-hand CP radiation with a small gain variation (${\pm}0.3dB$) and high radiation efficiency (>93%) over the operational bandwidth.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.802-805
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• 2011

This letter presents a K-band polarization reconfigurable antenna integrated with a silicon radio frequency MEMS switch into the form of a compact package. The proposed antenna can change its state from linear polarization (LP) to circular polarization (CP) by actuating the MEMS switch, which controls the configuration of the coupling ring slot. Low-loss quartz is used for a radiating patch substrate and at the same time for a packaging lid by stacking it onto the MEMS substrate, which can increase the system integrity. The fabricated antenna shows broadband impedance matching and exhibits high axial ratios better than 15 dB in the LP and small axial ratios in the CP, with a minimum value of 0.002 dB at 20.8 GHz in the K-band.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.156-163
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 composit right-left handed (CRLH) 전송 선로에서 발생하는 -1 모드를 이용하여 십자 개구 결합 급전을 갖는 소형 원형 편파 메타 물질 안테나를 제안한다. -1 모드는 일반적인 패치 안테나의 기본 모드인 $TM_{010}$ 모드와 동일한 성질을 가지고 있기 때문에, 원형 편파의 동작원리를 동일하게 적용할 수 있다. 원형 편파는 두 개의 수직인 모드가 $90^{\circ}$의 위상 차이를 가질 때 형성된다. 두 개의 -1 모드를 얻기 위해서 사각형 형태를 갖는 4개의 버섯 구조를 이용하였고, 모드 간에 $90^{\circ}$의 위상차를 인가하기 위해서 십자형 개구의 폭과 길이를 최적화 하였다. 제작된 안테나의 4개로 배열된 버섯 구조의 면적은 $0.34{\lambda}_g{\times}0.34{\lambda}_g$이며, RT/duroid5880 기판에 설계되었다. 제안된 안테나의 중심 주파수는 좌수 원형 편파 안테나의 경우 1.622 GHz 원형 편파의 3 dB 대역폭은 3 MHz로 측정되었다. 우수 원형 편파 안테나의 경우, 중심 주파수는 1.609 GHz로 원형 편파의 3 dB 대역폭은 3 MHz로 측정되었다. 각각 안테나의 효율은 좌수 원형 편파 안테나의 경우 61.1 %, 우수 원형 편파 안테나의 경우 54.5 %로 측정되었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.441-444
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• 2008

This paper describes the development of a circularly polarized microstrip antenna, as a part of the Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP-SAR) sensor which is currently under developed at the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MRSL) in Chiba University. CP-SAR is a new type of sensor developed for the purpose of remote sensing. With this sensor, lower-noise data/image will be obtained due to the absence of depolarization problems from propagation encounter in linearly polarized synthetic aperture radar. As well the data/images obtained will be investigated as the Axial Ratio Image (ARI), which is a new data that hopefully will reveal unique various backscattering characteristics. The sensor will be mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which will be aimed for fundamental research and applications. The microstrip antenna works in the frequency of 1.27 GHz (L-Band). The microstrip antenna utilized the proximity-coupled method of feeding. Initially, the optimization process of the single patch antenna design involving modifying the microstrip line feed to yield a high gain (above 5 dBi) and low return loss (below -10 dB). A minimum of 10 MHz bandwidth is targeted at below 3 dB of Axial Ratio for the circularly polarized antenna. A planar array from the single patch is formed next. Consideration for the array design is the beam radiation pattern in the azimuth and elevation plane which is specified based on the electrical and mechanical constraints of the UAV CP-SAR system. This research will contribute in the field of radar for remote sensing technology. The potential application is for landcover, disaster monitoring, snow cover, and oceanography mapping.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 통신소사이어티 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.327-330
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• 2003

A novel compact circular polarization operation of the microstrip antenna with four-slits and T-slits is proposed. The mechanism for compact size antenna is investigated with the behavior of the currents on the radiating patch. The equivalent surface current path due to the slits is lengthened, reducing the resonant frequency at a fixed patch size. The proposed compact CP design can have an antenna size reduction of about 33 ∼ 45％ as compared to the conventional microstrip antenna. Details of the experimental and measured results are presented and analysed.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.459-467
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• 2010

인공 자기 도체 편파 변환기를 이용한 원형 편파 안테나를 소개하고 특성을 분석한다. 기존 원형 편파 안테나들의 한계였던 얇은 구조의 광대역 축비 대역폭을 구현할 수 있음을 인공 자기 도체 이론에 근거하여 이론적으로 설명하고 실험적으로 검증한다. 기존의 안테나들은 방사체 표면 전류에 의해 원형 편파 특성이 구현됨에 따라 축비 대역폭이 방사체 구조에 의존적이었던 반면, 제안된 구조는 선형 편파 다이폴 안테나를 사용하면서 접지면의 격자 구조를 통해 원형 편파 특성을 구현하였다. 이러한 인공 자기 도체 편파 변환기는 접지면에 전기적으로 인접한 다이폴 안테나가 효율적으로 방사할 수 있도록 도와줄 뿐 아니라, 표면 격자의 기하 구조에 따라 축비 대역폭을 조절할 수 있다는 장점을 동시에 가진다. 인공 자기 도체 편파 변환기를 통해 발생된 원형 편파의 축비 특성을 이론적으로 분석하고, 임피던스 정합 특성, 원형 편파 방사 패턴 및 축비 패턴, 축비 대역폭, 격리도 등을 측정하여 논의한다.