• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.598-604
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• 2011

A method of miniaturizing branch line coupler with connected coupled lines is presented. The quarter-wavelength transmission lines in the typical microstrip branch line coupler are replaced with the connected coupled lines with same characteristics of ones for compact size. The connected coupled line is analyzed by T-equivalent circuit and Z parameters based on the even-odd mode analysis. The proposed branch line couplers with connected coupled line are designed and fabricated on FR4 substrate at 2.4 GHz. The measured results show good agreement with theoretical prediction. And the experimental results show that the size of coupler is 37 precent smaller than conventional coupler. This minimized coupler is suitable for Butler Matrix as feeder for mobile communication beam forming antenna.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.960-965
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• 2015

In this paper, a coupled line directional coupler using an LUC(Low-pass filter Unit Cell) of artificial transmission line is presented. The conventional coupled line coupler is limited in length by the ${\lambda}/4$ transmission line while the proposed coupling structure is implemented smaller than $90^{\circ}$ by inserting the phase delay line between two coupled line, reduced in physical size by configuring a phase delay line with an LUC having the characteristics of a typical transmission line in a particular frequency. A coupler having -10 dB coupling factor at the center frequency of 700 MHz is designed, fabricated. The measured result agrees well with that of conventional one. The length of the fabricated coupled line coupler has about 45 % in length compared to the conventional one.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.286-291
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• 2011

Directional couplers are widely used in RF and microwave applications to distribute or monitor signals. This paper presented a new structure of microstrip branch line directional coupler with coupled lines. The loose couplings of microstrip branch line directional couplers are impractical for the high characteristic impedance values required for the shunt branches. To overcome this limitation, the parallel coupled lines with the shorts were used for the high characteristic impedance. The results of the simulations and measurements were presented for the proposed branch line directional coupler. Measurement of the 10 dB branch line directional coupler shows that the return loss is higher than 30 dB over 10 % bandwidth and the isolation is 35 dB or better over 8 % bandwidth.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.995-999
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• 2014

In this paper, a new size-reduction approach for branch-line coupler is introduced which uses parallel end-shorted coupled lines with lumped capacitors. The characteristic of the new design was analyzed using even-odd mode method, and simulated on HFSS before fabricated on the FR4 epoxy glass cloth copper-clad plat (CCL) PCB substrate at center frequency of 1 GHz. The electrical length of transmission line was reduced to 15 degrees, therefore the size of branch-line coupler was largely reduced approximately maintaining the same characteristic around the stable center frequency. The insertion loss of the branch-line coupler filter was -4.39 dB. The size of the overall hybrid is $20mm{\times}20mm$. Measurements results were well agreed with the simulated ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.45-45
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• 2008

$SrTiO_3$/Organic composites 는 Inorganic/organic 복합재료로, 유전 특성이 우수하고, 저온하여 제조단가의 감소가 가능하다. 이를 바탕으로 $SrTiO_3$/Organic composites 복합재를 이용한 가능성을 확인하기 위해 Multilayer 구조의 Coupler를 설계, 제작 후 특성을 분석하였다. Coupler 는 RF signal을 분기하기 위한 목적으로 평행한 한 쌍의 Conductor line 구조를 가진다. 2개의 Line 의 길이를 특정주파수 $f_0$의 wavelength $\lambda$/4 로 설계하여 서로 근접 시켰을 때 $f_0$를 중심으로 RF 신호 분기 현상이 나타난다. 보다 넓은 대역에 걸쳐서 신호분기를 하기 위해서는 두 line 간의 간격을 좁혀 Signal coupling 효과를 증가 시킨다. single layer conductor 구조에서는 물리적인 한계가 있으므로, multilayer 구조를 사용하면 보다 넓은 대역의 Coupled line coupler 로서 기능하게 된다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.4 no.2 s.7
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• pp.67-72
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• 2005

This work proposes a novel coupled line coupler structure based on the asymmetric cascaded connection of coupled lines. The proposed structure can be designed in smaller size than conventional single section coupled line couplers. Also, the additional design freedom offered by the proposed structure can serve many useful purposes such as the output phase control or the flexible coupler layout for complex circuit routing environments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.350-353
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• 2003

In this paper, we designed and implemented a 10dB directional coupler with high directivity using branch line structure. The characteristic impedance of parallel branch line for 10 dB directional coupler is about 150 $\Omega$. To realize high characteristic impedance in microstrip line, we used the coupled line structure. The directional coupler were implemental and measured. The measured results show that the directivity is high than 24 dB.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2002

In this paper, we have designed a small size lumped/distributed hybrid element directional coupler using parallel coupled-line theory. a hybrid lumped equivalent circuit for a conventional parallel directional coupler is proposed. The equivalent circuit and design formula for the presented lumped element coupler are derived based on the even- and odd-mode properties of a parallel-coupled line. By using the derived design formula, we have extracted design parameters and designed the 3㏈ and 10㏈ small size lumped element directional couplers at the center frequency of 2Ghz. Excellent agreements between design theory and simulation on the designed directional couplers show the validity of this paper.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.53 no.11
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• pp.577-582
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• 2004

In this paper, lumped equivalent circuits for a conventional parallel directional coupler are proposed. This equivalent circuits only have self inductance and self capacitance, so we can design exact lumped equivalent circuit. The equivalent circuit and design formula for the presented lumped element coupler is derived based on the even- and odd-mode properties of parallel-coupled line. By using the derived design formula, we have designed the 3dB and 4.7dB MMIC couplers at the center frequency of 3.4GHz and 5.6GHz respectively. Measurements for the designed MMIC directional couplers show at 4dB and 5.2dB-coupling value at the center frequency of 3.4GHz and 5.6GHz. Excellent agreements between simulation results and measurement results on the designed directional couplers show the validity of this paper

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.554-557
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• 2013

This letter presents a power amplifier (PA) with an on-chip power detector for 2.4-GHz wireless local area network application. The power detector consists of a clamp circuit, a diode detector, and a coupled line directional coupler. A series inductor for an output matching network in the PA is combined with a through line of the coupler, which reduces the coupling level. Therefore, the coupler employs a metamaterial-based transformer configuration to increase coupling. The amount of coupling is increased by 2.5 dB in the 1:1 symmetric transformer structure and by 4.5 dB from two metamaterial units along the coupled line.