• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.161-166
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• 2010

The bandwidth of detecting radars used for military purpose is increasingly broadened, and recently, the frequency band of the detecting radars is expanding to millimeterwave bands of the millimeterwave bands of 35 GHz and 94 GHz. Since, especially, it is essential and important to fabricate and develop EM wave absorber with the absorption ability more than 10 dB in 94 GHz band, the EM wave absorber was manufactured based on the design method by FDTD simulation. As a result, the developed EM wave absorber with the composition ratio of Binder(CPE with additional materials) : Carbon = 70 : 30 wt.% has the thickness of 0.7 mm and the absorption ability more than 14 dB in the frequency range of 94 GHz.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.26-38
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• 2018

To overcome considerable path loss in millimeter-wave propagation, high-gain directional beamforming is considered to be a key enabling technology for outdoor 5G mobile networks. Associated with beamforming, this paper investigates propagation power loss characteristics in two aspects. The first is beamwidth effects. Owing to the multipath receiving nature of mobile environments, it is expected that a narrower beamwidth antenna will capture fewer multipath signals, while increasing directivity gain. If we normalize the directivity gain, this narrow-beamwidth reception incurs an additional power loss compared to omnidirectional-antenna power reception. With measurement data collected in an urban area at 28 GHz and 38 GHz, we illustrate the amount of these additional propagation losses as a function of the half-power beamwidth. Secondly, we investigate power losses due to steering beam misalignment, as well as the measurement data. The results show that a small angle misalignment can cause a large power loss. Considering that most standard documents provide omnidirectional antenna path loss characteristics, these results are expected to contribute to mmWave mobile system designs.

• Food Engineering Progress
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.126-131
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• 2017

Millimeter waves are electromagnetic waves with frequencies of 30-300 GHz (wavelength 1-10 mm), and millimeter wave stimulation affects microorganism growth. The present study stimulated Bacillus subtilis with 60 and 70 GHz millimeter waves during cheonggukjang fermentation and characterized the effects on cheonggukjang quality. Cheonggukjang treated with millimeter wave irradiation showed no significant difference in total bacterial count but generated only 5.52-5.92% viscous substance. Irradiation with 60 GHz millimeter waves yielded bright and intense color values relative to 70 GHz millimeter waves. Examination of the amylase activity and reducing sugar content of finished cheonggukjang revealed that irradiation at 70 GHz inhibited amylase activity in cheonggukjang. Furthermore, irradiation at 70 GHz increased protease activity, whereas irradiation at 60 GHz inhibited the activity. Moreover, the amino acid content changed with millimeter wave irradiation.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.374-384
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• 2014

To achieve high-speed (giga-bit) connectivity for short-range wireless multimedia applications, the millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless personal area networks with directional antennas are gaining increased interest. Due to the use of directional antennas and mmWave communications, the probability of non-interfering transmissions increases in a localized region. Network throughput can be increased immensely by the concurrent time allocation of non-interfering transmissions. The problem of finding optimum time allocation for concurrent transmissions is an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we propose two enhanced versions of previously proposed multi-hop concurrent transmission (MHCT) schemes. To increase network capacity, the proposed schemes efficiently make use of the free holes in the time-allocation map of the MHCT scheme; thus, making it more compact.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.3-10
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• 2017

최근 운전자의 편의성과 안전성 향상을 위한 커넥티드 카 및 자율주행 차량에 대한 관심과 연구가 집중되고 있다. 이러한 커넥티드 카와 자율주행 차량의 경우 대용량의 멀티미디어 전송 및 센서 데이터 공유 등 다양한 서비스를 위해 높은 전송용량과 신뢰성을 보장할 수 있는 vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) 통신과 vehicle-to- infrastructure (V2I) 통신에 대한 기본적인 연구와 구현이 필수적이다. 이러한 요구사항을 만족시키기 위해서 최근 mmWave 기반의 V2V, V2I에 대한 연구가 큰 주목을 받고 있다. 본고에서는 mmWave 대역 V2V 및 V2I 기술의 필요성과 채널에 관련된 기존 연구를 살펴보고, 이를 기반으로 현재까지 연구된 mmWave 대역 V2V, V2I 관련 연구에 대해 살펴보고자 한다. 또한 기존 연구의 한계점을 확인하고, 향후 연구방향과 주제에 대해 논의하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.487-491
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• 2003

Design procedure of corrugated horn antenna for mm-wave frequency range is presented, and hybrid condition in horn is calculated. Balanced hybrid mode should be converted in the horn from TE11 mode by the proper corrugation dimensions which size are available to be fabricated under the mm-wave short wavelength condition. In this paper, corrugate profiles which satisfy both hybrid condition and fabrication possibility are obtained.. By cylindrical mode theory, the electromagnetic fields both inside hem and corrugation are delivered. Propagation characteristics in hem is calculated by the mode impedance matching method with boundary conditions, and radiation fields are obtained by the Kirchhoff-Hyugen principle to the hem aperture fields. A mm-wave corrugated horn operates on 85 - 115GHz is designed and fabricated, and results of measurement are also shown.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1733-1739
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• 1997

An ultra-compact milimeter-wave broadband MMIC amplifier was designed using a direct-coupled topology combined with optimum feedback design. Significant reductionin the chip size was possible by employing the direct-coupled topology. Bias resistors required for the direct-coupled topology were also used as feedback elements. Feedback was optimized for millimeter-wave frequencies using reactive elements. The fabricated MMIC amplifier was realized in a chip size of 0.8mm$^{[-992]}$ and showed gains higher than 8 dB from 12 to 44 GHz. An output power of 30mW was achieved at 44 GHz with a drain efficiency of 10%.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.255-263
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• 2017

This paper proposes a graph-theatrical approach to optimize spatial reuse by adopting a technique that quantizes the channel information into single bit sub-messages. First, we introduce an interference graph to model the network topology. Based on the interference graph, the computational requirements of the algorithm that computes the optimal spatial reuse factor of each user are reduced to quasilinear time complexity, ideal for practical implementation. We perform a resource allocation procedure that can maximize the efficiency of spatial reuse. The proposed spatial reuse scheme provides advantages in beamforming systems, where in the interference with neighbor nodes can be mitigated by using directional beams. Based on results of system level measurements performed to illustrate the physical interference from practical millimeter wave wireless links, we conclude that the potential of the proposed algorithm is both feasible and promising.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.81-89
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• 2016

In this paper, a beam ID preamble (BIDP) technique, where a beam ID is transmitted in the physical layer, is proposed for efficient beam training in millimeter-wave cellular communication systems. To facilitate beam ID detection in a multicell environment with multiple beams, a BIDP is designed such that a beam ID is mapped onto a Zadoff-Chu sequence in association with its cell ID. By analyzing the correlation property of the BIDP, it is shown that multiple beams can be transmitted simultaneously with the proposed technique with minimal interbeam interference in a multicell environment, where beams have different time delays due to propagation delay or multipath channel delay. Through simulation with a spatial channel model, it is shown that the best beam pairs can be found with a significantly reduced processing time of beam training in the proposed technique.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.77-82
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• 2017

As frequencies increase to the millimeter wave bands the cross sections of wave guides become smaller than a few millimeters, which cause sapatial problems in realization of spatial combining power amplifiers. In this paper we intented to overcome the problem by widening the width of wave guides using horn antenna principles. We designed a widened rectangular wave guide for using in spatial combining power amplifier in 60GHz ISM band(57-64GHz), and we installed Antipodal transition in the widened wave guide, and then we characterized it as a spatial combining power amplifier. For the compatibility of WR15 standard wave guide, we widened the width of WR15 to 7mm using principle of H-plane sectoral horn antenna and then installed 3 slots of back to back Antipodal transition. The designed spatial combining power amplifier showed good characteristics of return loss less than -22.4dB and insertion loss less than 0.53dB. However, as widening the width of the wave guide, additional modes such as $TE_{20}$, $TE_{30}$ in addition to $TE_{10}$ were accurred in the bandwidth of WR15, which restricted the bandwidth and widening of the width of the wave guide.