• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.7A
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• pp.563-568
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• 2003

In this paper, a miniaturized parallel coupled bandpass filter using multi-layered LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics) substrate for SOP(System-On-Package) is proposed for applications to wireless communication systems. The fabricated BPF is composed of five 106${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ thick LTCC layers and its size is 5.24mm x 4.3mm x 0.53 mm. The measured characteristics of the BPF show the center frequency of 5.8GHz, bandwidth of 200MHz, insertion loss of 2.326dB and return loss of 13.679dB. In addition, the attenuation is 28.052dB at 4.7GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.8A
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• pp.607-612
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• 2003

In this paper, a miniaturized parallel coupled bandpass filter using multi-layered LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics) substrate for SOP(System-On-Package) is proposed for applications to wireless communication systems. The fabricated BPF is composed of five 106$\mu\textrm{m}$ thick LTCC layers and its size is 5.24mm ${\times}$ 4.3mm${\times}$ 0.53mm. The measured characteristics of the BPF show the center frequency of 5.8GHz, bandwidth of 200㎒, insertion loss of 2.326㏈ and return loss of 13.679㏈. In addition, the attenuation is 28.052㏈ at 4.7GHz.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.11 no.3 s.32
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• pp.77-82
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• 2004

In this paper, warpages of heterogeneous LTCC substrates comprised of high K/low K hi-layered structure were investigated. The effect of glass content in high K LTCC layer on the warpage of substrate during co-firing process was examined. Shrinkage and dielectric properties of high K and low K green sheets were measured. In-situ camber observation by hot stage microscopy showed different camber development of heterogeneous LTCC substrates according to glass content in high K green sheet. High K green sheet containing $50\%$ glass was matched to low K green sheet in the shrinkage. Therefore, LTCC substrate of Low K/High K+$50\%$ glass structure showed flat surface after sintering.

• Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference
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• 2006.09b
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• pp.1232-1233
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• 2006

To co-fire with commercial LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) materials at $850^{\circ}C{\sim}880^{\circ}C$, different contents of $B_2O_3$ were added to the $Bi_2O_3-ZnO-Nb_2O_5$ (BZN) ceramics. According to the test results, the cubic phase of BZN was transformed into orthorhombic in all the test materials. $BiNbO_4$ phase was formed in test materials with $2{\sim}5wt%$ of $B_2O_3$ addition. The phase transformation of cubic BZN was controlled during the synthesis process with excess ZnO content. The Cubic and orthorhombic phases of BZN could coexist and be sintered densely at $850^{\circ}C/2hr$.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.225-229
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• 2011

In this study, capacitive type pressure sensors based on low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) technology for environmental monitoring were demonstrated. The LTCC is one of promising technology than is based one since it has many advantages (e.g., low cost production, high manufacturing yields and easy realizing 3D structure etc.) for sensor application. Especially, it has good mechanical and chemical properties for robust environmental application. The 3D LTCC diaphragm with thickness of 400 ${\mu}m$ were fabricated by laminating 4 green sheets using commercial powder (NEG, MLS 22C). To evaluate the sensing properties of the different cavity areas, two types of diaphragm which had different cavity areas with 25, 49 $mm^2$ respectively, were fabricated. To realize capacitive type pressure sensor, the Au top electrode was fabricated using thermal evaporator and the bottome electrode was compressed using aluminium foil. The sensing properties of the fabricated sensors showed linear characteristic under different pressure (0~30 psi) using pressure measurement system.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.11
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• pp.680-686
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• 2004

An integrated inductor using the low temperature cofiring ceramics(LTCC) technology was fabricated. The inductor has Ag circular spiral coil with 16 turns (2-turn x 8-layer) and has a dimension of 11.52mm diameter and 0.71mm thick. For the fabricated inductor, calculation method of inductance was given and it is confirmed that the calculated value is very close to the measured one. Finally as an application of the LTCC integrated inductor to low power electronic circuits, a LTCC buck DC/DC converter with 1.32W output power and 1MHz switching frequency using the inductor fabricated was developed. For the converter the maximum efficiency of about 81% was obtained.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.362-365
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 세라믹 테잎의 적층 공정을 이용하는 LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics) 공정을 이용하여 FBAR duplexer 의 패키징을 위한 다층기판을 구현하였다. 구현된 다층기판에는 stripline 구조의 전송선로를 이용한 인덕터 및 위상 천이기를 내장 시키게 되는데, 인덕터의 경우 길이 변수를 통한 인덕턴스의 변화 추이를, 위상 천이기의 경우 선 폭 변수를 통한 특성 임피던스의 변화 추이를 통해 각 개별 소자에 대한 설계·제작·측정을 하였고 추출한 데이터를 실제 회로 설계 시 적용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.574-577
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• 2004

A coupler is a microwave passive component used for power coupling or dividing. Regarding the trend of current telecommunication systems it is highly desirable for monolithic integration of passive components as such LTCC(Low temperature cofired ceramics) technology offers potential advantage in size, cost and performance. Utilizing LTCC technology a 2012 size type dual band coupler for DCS and EGSM band was fabricated. Its characteristics such as coupling, insertion loss, isolation and directivity was measured and compared with simulation results

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.392-395
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• 2004

A coupler is a microwave passive component used for power coupling or dividing. Regarding the trend of current telecommunication systems it is highly desirable for monolithic integration of passive components as such LTCC(Low temperature cofired ceramics) technology offers potential advantage in size, cost and performance. Utilizing LTCC technology a 1608 size type dual band coupler for DCS and EGSM band was fabricated. Its characteristics such as coupling, insertion loss, isolation and directivity was measured and compared with simulation results.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.621-627
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• 2008

This paper presents a compact and miniaturized power detector utilizing low temperature co-fired ceramics(LTCC) technology for the application in wireless handset system to monitor the transmitting power at the frequency of 824-849MHz. The proposed power detector is composed of detector diode, lumped components for matching network, and LTCC stripline coupler based on LTCC substrate technology. A 20dB LTCC stripline direction coupler is designed and implemented with many bending section in order to reduce the practically occupied area for miniaturization. A zero bias schottky diode is adopted for detector design because of its high speed operation with minimized loss. The measured performances of fabricated detector agree well with the predicted results with a good linearity within the effective input RF power range.