• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.38-45
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• 2002

This paper presents the new Compact 2D ADI-FDTD(Alternating-Direction Implicit Finite-Difference Time-Domain) method, where the time step is no longer restricted by the numerical stability condition. This method is an accelerating algorithm for the conventional Compact 2D FDTD method. To validate this algorithm, we have analyzed the dispersion characteristics of the hollow rectangular waveguide and the shielded microstrip line. The results of the proposed method are very well agreed with those of both the conventional analytic method and the Compact 2D FDTD method. The CPU time for analysis of this method is very much reduced compared with the conventional Compact 2D FDTD method. The proposed method is valuable as a fast algorithm in the research of dispersion characteristics of the waveguide structures.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.178-184
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• 2007

A new adaptive alternating-direction-implicit finite-difference time-domain (ADI-FDTD) method is proposed to obtain isotropic wave propagation for all directional angles. We add the square terms of time-step multiplied by the spatial derivatives of x and y as a perturbed term to the conventional ADI-FDTD and can find the optimization coefficient of square terms of time-step to generate the minimum anisotropy. The new ADI-FDTD is also stable, even when its time-step is greater than the Courant-Friedrich-Levy (CFL) limit. The characteristic equation of the dispersion relation governing the new method is derived and compared with the theoretical and numerical results for the conventional ADI-FDTD and perturbed ADI-FDTD methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.528-537
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• 2002

In this paper, the extended FDTD is used for the analysis of microwave circuits including active elements. Lumped elements such as R, L, C which are inserted into a microstrip line are analyzed with the FDTD lumped element modeling. Parasitic capacitance and inductance could be obtained using network modeling and so it is sure that FDTD lumped element modeling makes it possible to get more accurate data which include parasite components. Moreover, a balanced mixer using two diodes that are modeled by an extended FDTD is designed and the more exact characteristic of the mixer is acquired than in current circuit simulator.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.114-122
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• 2014

For an efficient finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) analysis of coaxial-probe feeding structures in radio frequency(RF) and microwave bands, an interrelation between equivalent source modeling techniques is investigated. In existing literature, equivalent source models with delta-gap or magnetic-frill concepts have been developed by many researchers. It is well known that FDTD implementation and computational accuracy of these source models are slightly different. In this paper, the interrelation between FDTD equivalent source models for coaxial feeding structures under the quasi-static approximation(QSA) is presented. As a function of FDTD equivalent source models, time-domain and frequency-domain responses of a coaxial-probe fed conical monopole antenna are calculated numerically. And comparison results of computational accuracy and efficiency are provided.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.38-44
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• 2010

In this paper, the higher order FDTD(Finite-Difference Time-Domain) method is used to obtain the frequency response characteristics of the cylindrical metamaterial slab. FDTD method is one of strongest electromagnetic numerical method which is widely used to analyze the metamaterial structure because of its simplicity and the dispersive FDTD equation which has the dispersive effective dielectric constant and permeability are derived to analyze the metamaterials. This derived dispersive FDTD equation has no errors in analyzing the dielectric materials but there are some time and frequency errors in case of analyzing the metamaterials. We used the higher order FDTD method to obtain the accurate frequency response of the metamaterials. Comparisons between the dispersive FDTD method and the higher order FDTD method are performed in this paper also. From the results, we concluded that more accurate frequency response for various metamaterials applications can be obtained using the proposed method in this paper.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.108-114
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• 2012

We propose a dispersive finite-difference time domain(FDTD) algorithm suitable for the electromagnetic analysis of the human body. In this work, the dispersion relation of the human body is modeled by a quadratic complex rational function(QCRF), which leads to an accurate and efficient FDTD algorithm. Coefficients(involved in QCRF) for various human tissues are extracted by applying a weighted least square method(WLSM), referred to as the complex-curve fitting technique. We also presents the FDTD formulation for the QCRF-based dispersive model in detail. The QCRFbased dispersive model is significantly accurate and its FDTD implementation is more efficient than the counterpart of the Cole-Cole model. Numerical examples are used to show the validity of the proposed FDTD algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.1 s.104
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• pp.8-16
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• 2006

In this paper, updating schemes for the alternating-direction implicit finite-difference time-domain method(ADI-FDTD) are studied, which method has the potential to considerably reduce the number of time iterations especially in case where the fine spatial lattice relative to the wavelength is used to resolve fine geometrical features. In numerical simulations for microwave structure using ADI-FDTD, time marching scheme comprises of two sub-iterations. Two different updating equation sets for ADI-FDTD simulations are presented. In order to discuss the characteristics of those schemes especially in view of applying boundary conditions, we solved two complementary 2-D problems.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

In this paper, a microstrip patch antenna was analyzed by using FDTD method. Firstly, the electric field in the microstrip patch antenna was obtained by approximating a Maxwell's equation to a finite difference equation by means of Yee's algorithm. In this case, Mur's 1st approximation and dispersive boundary condition(BBC) were applied to an absorbing boundary condition. We also analyzed a single microstrip patch antenna by using the FDTD method, then calculating the propagative process in the wave of a return loss. Also, as the result that FDTD was applied to 2-array antenna designed to increase the gain of antenna, the measured results was in relatively good accordance with the values calculated by the FDTD method. The calculated impedance, return loss and VSWR were comparatively good. And these results were In relatively good accordance with the measured values.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.911-918
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• 2013

The proposed print antenna using Finite Difference Time Domain(FDTD) method is analyzed in this paper. A low radiation resistance and an ultra-wide band of this antenna are also presented. The propagation process of the reflected wave and the electric field distribution in the time domain are calculated in respectively. The antenna parameters are optimized for the maximum band width, return loss, input impedance, and radiation pattern in the frequency domain using Fourier transforming. The experimental bandwidth of the antenna is 1.85GHz~6.35GHz for the VSWR less than or equal to 2.0. The measured results are relatively in good agreement with the FDTD results. The proposed antenna can be applied to various applications such as UWB, broadcasting-network system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.326-332
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• 2015

Analyzing electromagnetic properties in plasma medium, it is difficult to numerically solve electromagnetic problem with thin plasma. In this paper, subcell Maxwell-Boltzmann FDTD method was proposed which is combined with Maxwell-Boltzmann FDTD and subcell FDTD method for analyzing plasma and electrically thin materials, respectively. Calculations of reflection coefficient and absorption rate error were performed by using 1D FDTD method. Reflection coefficient computed by applying the proposed method is in agreement with analytic solution. Absorption rate error analyzed by employing the proposed method is 1/10 times less than one by using conventional method.