• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.55-58
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• 2008

In this paper, the new type wiggly directional coupler which uses the fractal coupled shape in coupled sections is presented. A commercial software has been used to analyze this new structure and the simulation results are compared to those of the conventional wiggly directional coupler. To verify the simulation results, the new type wiggly directional coupler was fabricated with the center frequency of 15GHz. The measurement results shows that the coupling of new structure proposed in this paper is more than that of conventional wiggly coupler. The results in this paper also show that the fractal shape coupled lines in wiggling sections can improve the coupling characteristics in wiggly directional coupler.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.206-209
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• 2016

This letter proposes a reconfigurable directional coupler that uses a variable impedance mismatch reflector to achieve high isolation characteristics in the antenna front end. The reconfigurable coupler consists of a directional coupler and a single-pole four-throw (SP4T) switch with different load impedances as a variable load mismatch reflector. Selection of the load impedance by the reflector allows cancellation of the reflected signal due to antenna load mismatch and the leakage from the input to isolation port of the directional coupler, resulting in high isolation characteristics. The performance of the proposed architecture in separating the received (Rx) signal from the transmitted (Tx) signal in the antenna front end was verified by implementing and testing the reconfigurable coupler at 917 MHz for UHF radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications. The proposed reconfigurable directional coupler showed an improvement in the isolation characteristics of more than 20 dB at the operation frequency band.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.317-321
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 높은 지향성을 갖는 방향성 결합기의 특성을 연구하였다. 방향성 결합기는 이동통신 기지국의 송신단에서 신호의 크기나 주파수 혹은 안테나에서의 반사 등을 확인하기 위해 사용된다. 높은 지향성을 갖는 방향성 결합기를 개발하기 위해 시뮬레이션을 통해 특성을 분석하였고 이를 바탕으로 방향성 결합기를 제작 분석하였다. 제작된 결합기는 약 31dB 정도의 높은 지향성 특성을 보였다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.238-242
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• 2001

In this paper, we extracted design parameters for re-entrant mode microstrip directional coupler using FE(finite element) calculations. The microstrip directional coupler suffers from a poor directivity due to effect of the inhomogeneous dielectric including both dielectric substrate and air in microstrip transmission lines. Thus, the phase velocity of even mode is not equal to that of odd mode. In order to improve the directivity of microstrip directional coupler, a novel re-entrant mode microstrip directional coupler was employed. In microstrip configuration, the high directivity can be reached by matching the even- and odd-mode effective phase velocities. Through the values of capacitance obtained from 2-dimensional FE calculations, the phase velocities for each mode and the design parameter were extracted for the proposed parallel coupled-line configuration. Based on the extracted design parameter with phase matching condition, we designed and fabricated a 30dB directional coupler at 0.85GHz. Experimental results show good performance with excellent, isolation and directivity.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.286-291
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• 2011

방향성 결합기는 RF 및 마이크로파 대역에서 신호를 분배하거나 감시하는 데 이용된다. 본 논문에서는 마이크로스트립 선로로 구현한 결합선로를 이용한 새로운 구조의 브랜치 선로 방향성 결합기를 제안하였다. 브랜치 선로 방향성 결합기는 결합도가 낮아지면 병렬로 연결된 선로의 특성 임피던스가 높아서 마이크로스트립 선로로 구현하기 어려워진다. 이를 극복하기 위하여 단락된 평형 결합 선로를 이용하여 높은 특성 임피던스를 구현하였다. 제안한 브랜치 선로 방향성 결합기의 시뮬레이션 결과 및 제작하여 측정한 결과를 보였다. 제작한 10 dB 브랜치 선로 방향성 결합기는 10% 대역폭에서 반사 손실이 30 dB 이상, 8% 대역폭에서 고립도 35 dB 이상인 결과를 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 I
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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.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2002년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.12 No.1
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• pp.157-160
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• 2002

In this paper, a novel lumped equivalent circuit for a conventional parallel directional coupler is proposed. The equivalent circuit and design formula for the presented lumped element coupler is derived based on the even-and odd-mode properties of a parallel-coupled line. By using the derived design formula, we have designed the 3㏈ and 10㏈ lumped element directional couplers at the center frequency of 100Mhz. Furthermore, a chip type directional coupler has been designed to fabricate with multilayer configurations by employing the Low Temperature CofiredCeramic (LTCC) process. Designed chip-type directional coupler has a 10㏈-coupling value at the center frequency of 2㎓. Excellent agreements between simulations and measurements on the designed directional couplers show the validity of this paper

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2003년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.13 No.1
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• pp.251-255
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• 2003

In this paper, a miniaturized directional coupler utilizing lumped element is proposed as a interdigital capacitor. The traditional miniaturization technique of transmission line realized a utilizing MIM(Metal-Insulator-Metal) capacitor on CPW(Coplanar Waveguide). However, we present a simplified design procedure without additional manufacturing process utilizing interdigital capacitor on microstrip with ease of design. The similar characteristics between the conventional directional coupler with ${\lambda}/4$ transmission line and the miniaturized directional coupler with ${\lambda}/8$ transmission line are validated through simulation and measurement results. Miniaturization rate of total size is about 25% while coupled line is about 60%. As a result, this proposed directional coupler can reduce the size of mobile communication system at 2 GHz.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.16
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• pp.288-291
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• 2003

Nowadays, the study on the ceramic components and modules used in telecommunication system is being performed. Coupler is a microwave passive component used for power coupling or dividing and directional coupler is designed to be possible optional dividing percentage. In our research, We developed 14dB and 19dB directional couplers of EGSM band. The good characteristics, the target insertion loss and high isolation, of couplers is obtained by LTCC processing using a ceramic material.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.373-376
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• 2002

비대칭 구조의 커플러에 대한 이론적 고찰과 함께 EDFA 이득평탄용 필터로서의 응용과 그에 대한 설계를 하였다. 이득평탄필터를 구현하기 위한 비대칭 커플러의 광섬유 파라미터를 제시하였고 커플러의 광 결합 길이와 코어간의 거리에 따른 이득평탄필터의 투과 스펙트럼의 특성을 시뮬레이션을 통해 알아보았다. 그리고 시뮬레이션 결과를 바탕으로 하여 약 30nm의 대역폭에 걸쳐서 EDFA의 이득 스펙트럼을 $\pm$0.75 ㏈이하로 평탄화할 수 있는 이득평탄필터를 설계하였다.