• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.1037-1044
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• 2008

Radiation efficiency and antenna gain, in this paper, can be increased by the slot on EMI shield painted on the mobile phone back cover. When the EMI slot which has proper dimension and location is located on the EMI paining area in the phone, the increment of antenna current density due to mutual coupling between the antenna and slot derives increment of antenna efficiency. For the verification of EMI slot effect, we apply the EMI slot to the mobile phone which is operating on GSM/DCS/USPCS/WCDMA quad band, and measure $S_{11}$ and antenna efficiency. It's shown that resonant frequency is not changed and radiation efficiencies to frequency channels by EMI slot are increased from 0.21 % to 8.96 %.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.158-162
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• 2015

A low phase noise CMOS voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) for multi-band/multi-standard RF Transceivers is presented. For both wide tunability and low phase noise characteristics, Hybrid inductor which uses both bondwire inductor and planar spiral inductor in the same area, is proposed. This approach reduces inductance variation and presents high quality factor without custom-designed single-turn inductor occupying large area, which improves phase noise and tuning range characteristics without additional area loss. An LC VCO is designed in a 0.13um CMOS technology to demonstrate the hybrid inductor concept. The measured phase noise is -121dBc/Hz at 400KHz offset and -142dBc/Hz at 3MHz offset from a 900MHz carrier frequency after divider. The tuning range of about 28%(3.15 to 4.18GHz) is measured. The VCO consumes 7.5mA from 1.3V supply and meets the requirements for GSM/EDGE and WCDMA standard.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.261-266
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• 2018

This paper reports on the proposed design of a low profile broadband array antenna for home repeater applications. The proposed antenna consists of $1{\times}4$ patch elements and two ground planes, one of which is slitted. By using the gap feeding method, the impedance matching of the antenna is improved by a multi-resonance phenomenon. The proposed antenna provides a wide -10 dB reflection coefficient bandwidth simultaneously covering the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM-1800), Personal Communications Service (PCS), and the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) bands (1.67-2.32 GHz). In order to reduce the mutual coupling between adjacent patch elements, slits are embedded in the ground plane. An isolation level of -20 dB is realized over the entire operating frequency band.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.977-980
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 GSM/DCS/PCS대역에서 사용할 수 있는 변형된 IFA형태의 내장형 안테나를 설계하고 이를 제작하였다. 본 논문에서는 실제 상용화된 휴대단말기의 내장형 안테나를 3D Tool을 이용하여 전류 흐름의 상쇄작용을 고려하여 3중 대역을 형성시켰으며, Stub의 길이에 따라 변화하는 반사소실 특성을 확인하였다. 설계된 안테나를 제작 측정한 결과 기존의 안테나 보다 약 10.9%, 1.57dB 특성이 개선되었다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.457-460
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 실제 모델의 인테나 성능을 측정해 효율과 이득 면에서 더 나은 새로운 인테나 패턴을 설계하여 제작하였다. Ansoft사의 HFSS 시뮬레이션 툴을 사용하여 기존 모델의 3중대역(CDMA/DCN/PCS) IFA안테나를 4중대역(CDMA/GSM/PCS/WCDMA)으로 전류상쇄를 최소화 하여 설계하였다. 그 결과 기존 모델보다 평균 효율은 약 8.3 % 개선시켰으며, 평균 이득은 0.82dB 향상 되었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.155-156
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• 2007

A wideband monopole antenna using a parasitic branch is proposed for allowing operations at multiple frequency bands specified in GSM($824{\sim}894MHz$), PCS($1750{\sim}1870MHz$), WiBro($2.3{\sim}2.4GHz$), WLAN/ISM ($2.4{\sim}2.48GHz$) and SDMB($2.605{\sim}2.655GHz$). We have used two branch monopoles and the one parasitic branch. Prototype of the multiband antenna have been successfully implemented and good radiation characteristics the operating frequency bands have been obtained. The effect of a parasitic branch was also studied.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.63-69
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• 2008

Reconfigurable RF one-chip solutions have been researched with the objective of designing for smaller-sized and more economical RF transceiver and it can be applied to a vehicular wireless terminal. The proposed voltage-controlled oscillator satisfies the targeted frequency range ($4.2{\sim}5.4\;GHz$) and the frequency planning which correspond to the standards such as CDMA(IS-95), PCS, GSM850, EGSM, WCDMA, WLAN, Bluetooth, WiBro, S-DMB, DSRC, GPS, and DVB-H/DMB-H/L(L Band). In order to improve phase noise performance, PMOS is adopted in the cross-coupled pair, the tail current source and MOS varactor in this VCO and differential-typed switching is proposed in capacitor array. Based on the measurement results, a total power dissipation is $5.3{\sim}6.0\;mW$ at 1.8 V power supply voltage. The oscillator is tuned from 4.05 to 5.62 GHz; The tuning range is 33%. The phase noise is -117.16 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency and the FOM (Figure Of Merit) is $-180.84{\sim}-180.5$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.584-597
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• 2011

In this paper, low-loss and high-power RF SP6T switch chips are designed, fabricated and measured for GSM/EGSM/DCS/PCS applications using WIN Semiconductors 0.5 ${\mu}m$ pHEMT process. We utilized a combined configuration of series and series-shunt structures for optimized switch performance, and a common transistor structure on a receiver path for reducing chip area. The gate width and the number of stacked transistors are determined using ON/OFF input power level of the transceiver system. To improve the switch performance, feed-forward capacitors, shunt capacitors and parasitic FET inductance elimination due to resonance are actively used. The fabricated chip size is $1.2{\times}1.5\;mm^2$. S-parameter measurement shows an insertion loss of 0.5~1.2 dB and isolation of 28~36 dB. The fabricated SP6T switch chips can handle 4 W input power and suppress second and third harmonics by more than 75 dBc.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.12
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• pp.42-48
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• 2008

Next generation wireless communication systems require RF transceivers that enable multiband/multimode operations. Polar transmitters are known as good candidates for high data rate systems such as EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), and WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) because they can obtain high efficiency by using efficient switched-mode RF power amplifiers. In this paper, we investigate the performance of a simple peak windowing scheme for the OFDM (Orthogonal frequency Division Multiplexing) polar transmitter, which requires no change of a receiver structure or no additional information transmission. The approach we employed is to apply the peak windowing scheme to the amplitude modulated signals of the polar transmitter to reduce the PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio). The BER (Bit Error Rate) and EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) performances are measured for various window types and lengths. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm mitigates out-of-band distortion introduced by clipping along with PAPR reduction.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1117-1127
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• 2012

In this paper, the monopole antenna for satisfying GSM900/DCS1800/PCS1900/UMTS2100 services is designed. We can get the characteristic of the low frequency bands by connecting the front patch to the back patch of the antenna and get the low frequency resonance band using a front patch slit. The proposed antenna total volume is $40{\times}98{\times}1.6\;mm^3$, and it is designed on the FR-4 substrate having a relative dielectric constant of 4.4. As measurement result after fabrication, showed that the resonant frequency bandwidths are 156 MHz(828~984 MHz), 708 MHz(1.476~2.184 GHz) based on the return loss of 10 dB, and the radiation patterns show as the omnidirectional shapes for the E-field and H-field. For analyzing the human effects, the proposed antenna is mounted on the mobile-phone case. The averaged peak SAR over 1 g and 10 g is simulated and measured when the input power is 0.25 W. We have checked the variation of the SAR values when the antenna is mounted 4 different directions, then checked the direction having a relatively higher SAR. The results also satisfied the limiting SAR values which are 1.6 W/kg and 2.0 W/kg averaged over 1 g and 10 g tissues respectively.