• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.84-90
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 주파수 조절 범위의 감소 없이 위상 잡음을 줄이고 회로 크기를 최소화하기 위하여 혼합 우좌향 전송 선로 기반의 고조파 조절 회로를 이용한 새로운 전압 제어 발진기를 제안하였다. 위상 잡음은 2차와 3차 고조파에서 동시에 단락임피던스를 갖는 새로운 고조파 조절 회로에 의해 줄어들었다. 제안된 고조파 조절 회로는 혼합 우좌향 전송 선로의 주파수 오프셋과 위상 기울기에 의한 이중 대역 특성을 갖는 혼합 우좌향 전송 선로를 이용하여 설계되었다. 높은 Q 특성의 공진기는 위상 잡음을 줄이기 위하여 사용되어 왔지만, 주파수 조절 범위가 감소하는 문제를 갖고 있다. 하지만 제안된 전압 제어 발진기의 주파수 조절 범위는 위상 잡음이 높은 Q 특성의 공진기 없이 감소하였기 때문에 줄어들지 않았다. 또한, 일반적인 우향 전송 선로 대신 혼합 우좌향 전송 선로를 이용하는 것을 통하여 회로의 크기를 소형화 하였다. 전압 제어 발진기의 위상 잡음은 5.731 ~ 5.938 GHz의 주파수 조절 범위 내에서 100 kHz의 오프셋 주파수에서 -119.17 ~ -117.50 dBc/Hz이다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권8호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 이중대역에서 작동하는 발룬을 제안하고 모의실험을 실시하였다. 기본적인 형태는 Wilkinson Power Divider에서 출발하여 각 단자(Port)간의 고립도(Isolation)를 향상시키기 위하여 $\lambda/2$ 전송선을 단자 2와 3 사이에 삽입하였고, 이중대역 및 크기의 소형화를 위해서 $\lambda/4$ 길이의 전송선을 metamaterial 구조인 CRLH(Composite Righ/Left-Handed) 형태와 D-CRLH(Dual Composite Right/Left-Handed) 형태를 사용하여 TDMB 주차수대역인 195MHz, 그리고 DVB-H 주파수대역인 670MHz에서 작동하는 발룬을 설계하였다. 제안된 구조로 설계된 발룬의 반사손실(return loss)에 대한 최소값은 -12.98dB$(S_{11})$이며, 고립도(isolation)는 최소 -12.4dB, 그리고 출력신호간의 불균형은 0.08dB보다 작고, 위상오차는 최대 $2.8^{\circ}$이다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.331-337
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• 2015

A novel fully-printed microstrip antenna with negative first resonance and dual polarization is proposed. The radiator is printed on the 1-layer substrate instead of multilayers. The -1st resonance results from a composite right- and left-handed(CRLH) structure that has a circumferentially interlocked gap capacitively coupling a patch with a shorted-ring. This compact antenna is provided with a dual-polarization capability by creating two orthogonal linear polarizations in one body with coaxial feeds. The design is carried out by doing full-wave EM field simulation which is compared with the measurement of the fabricated antenna prototype. The measured results give the gain of 5 dBi and the efficiency of 78% at the -1st resonance mode as the center frequency of a downlink channel of the bandwidth over 20 MHz with 29 dB polarization isolation for mobile communication.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권12호
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• pp.2299-2304
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose the methodology to make the bandpass filters for the Smart Grid IED(Intelligent Electronic Device) smaller than the conventional bandpass filters. The size-reduction of the filters and the filter performances are indebted to devising small CRLH(composite right- and left-handed) resonators and coupling them as the metamaterial structures. The design methodology is validated by the equivalent circuit to be compared with the reliable full-wave EM simulation, and the proposed metamaterial filter outperforms the standard parallel-edge coupled filter with respect to the miniaturization and frequency response.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.280-286
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• 2012

The conventionally classified waves are reclassified in this paper, including the waves associated with metamaterial (MTM) transmission lines. Various types of guided waves in periodic structures are analyzed for 1D Composite Right/Left Handed (CRLH) transmission lines (TL). In addition, dispersion diagrams for 1D CRLH, RH, and LH TLs are presented in terms of radiation conditions. We have refined the design equations of the conventional 1D CRLH TL and proposed a condition to realize the desired phase shift and its slope per unit cell. This condition has been applied to the conventional Wilkinson power divider and realized into MTM added $90^{\circ}$ hybrid coupler. Based on the 10 dB return loss and the $90{\pm}10^{\circ}$ phase shift, the bandwidths of the MTM added $90^{\circ}$ hybrid coupler are 82.25% and 103.5% against the conventional 23% and 52.5%, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.150-153
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• 2013

In this letter, a compact and fully printed composite right- and left-handed (CRLH) dual-band power divider is proposed. The branches of the conventional Wilkinson power divider are replaced by subwavelength CRLH phase-shift lines having $+90^{\circ}$ for one frequency and $-90^{\circ}$ for another frequency for dual-band and miniaturization performance. Equations are derived for the even- and odd-mode analysis combined with the dual-band CRLH circuit. A PCS and a WLAN band are chosen as the test case and the circuit approach agrees with the CAD simulation and the measurement. Additionally, the CRLH property is shown with the dispersion diagram and the eightfold size reduction is noted.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.463-469
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• 2016

In this paper, the use of a dual composite right/left-handed coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line is proposed for the design of a band rejection filter. The notch property of the filter is achieved by combining the convex signal line with the shorted concave meander line, and the equivalent circuit model is extracted from the geometry of the unit cell for organizing the band rejection property. Then the equivalent parameters of the unit cell are analyzed to identify those behaviors. And the dispersion characteristics and energy distributions are simulated. In the end, the band rejection filter is manufactured by cascading two proposed unit cells. We show that the measurement result for the resonant frequency demonstrates good agreement with the simulation result and the band rejection filter provides a rejection performance of 17.5 dB at the stopband frequency ranging from 869 MHz to 894 MHz.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2013

Multiplexers based on isolation circuits made of metamaterial lines are proposed and studied. The new approach provides unique advantageous features beneficial to system designer. For instance, there is no need to modify the filters used in multiplexers. Also, the design process is straightforward. In this paper, two types of multiplexers based on metamaterial isolation circuits are presented, and their operation concepts are explained. Also, theories and design process of isolation circuits are presented to help readers design and fabricate proposed multiplexers. For verifying the concepts, two types of triplexers and two types of quadruplexers are designed and fabricated. All filters used in the multiplexers are commercial surface acoustic wave filters. The measured results are well matched with the simulation results.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.151-154
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• 2014

A novel frequency-switchable antenna that uses PIN diodes and a composite right- and left-handed transmission line (CRLH TL) is proposed. The CRLH TL provides multi-order resonance, including a zeroth-order resonance (ZOR), and its shunt stub determines the ZOR frequency. Thus, the resonant frequency is arbitrarily chosen by lumped chip inductors on the shunt stub. Two prototypes are designed using different chip inductors while maintaining the antenna geometries. Antenna #1 can switch the resonant frequency from 1.8 GHz to 2.3 GHz. Antenna #2 can switch its resonance from 0.9 GHz to 2.3 GHz.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.290-297
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• 2011

Recent progresses in the live electrooptic imaging (LEI) technique are reviewed with emphasis on its functionality of real-time visual accesses to traveling electric waves in the GHz range. Together with the principles, configurations, and procedures for the visual observation experiments by an LEI camera system, the following results are described as examples indicating the wide application ranges of the technique; Ku-band waves on arrayed planar antennas, waves on a Gb/s-class digital circuit, W-band waves traveling both in slab-waveguide modes and aerially, backward-traveling wave along composite right/left-handed transmission line, and, waves in monolithic microwave integrated circuit module case.