• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2013

Modern integrated circuits (ICs) are becoming an integrated parts of analog, digital, and radio frequency (RF) circuits. Testing these RF circuits on a chip is an important task, not only for fabrication quality control but also for tuning RF circuit elements to fit multi-standard wireless systems. In this paper, RF test circuits suitable for embedded testing are introduced: RF power detectors, power control circuits, directional couplers, and six-port reflectometers. Various types of embedded RF power detectors are reviewed. The conventional approach and our approach for the RF power control circuits are compared. Also, embedded tunable active directional couplers are presented. Then, six-port reflectometers for embedded RF testing are introduced including a 77-GHz six-port reflectometer circuit in a 130 nm process. This circuit demonstrates successful calibrated reflection coefficient simulation results for 37 well distributed samples in a Smith chart. The details including the theory, calibration, circuit design techniques, and simulations of the 77-GHz six-port reflectometer are presented in this paper.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2020

The demand for stable plasma has been on the rise because of the increased delivery power amount in the chamber for improving productivity, and fast and accurate plasma impedance matching become a crucial performance measure for radio frequency (RF) power system in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. In this paper, the overall impedance matching was understood, and voltage and current values were extracted with voltage - current (VI) probe to measure plasma impedance in real-time. Actual matching data were analyzed to derive calibration coefficient for V and I measurements to understand the characteristics of VI probe, and we demonstrated the tendency of RF impedance matching according to changes in load impedance. This preliminary empirical research can contribute to fast RF matching as well as advanced equipment control for the next level of detailed investigation on embedded system based-RF matching controller.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권2C호
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• pp.306-314
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• 2004

배열 안테나를 사용하고 있는 CDMA 기반의 이동 통신 기지국은 효율적인 빔 형성을 위해서 배열 안테나 시스템을 이루고 있는 송수신기 모듈의 정확한 성능을 필요로 하며 이를 위해 오차 보정이 반드시 필요하다. 일반적으로 오차 보정은 internal 오차 보정과 external 오차 보정으로 크게 구분 할 수 있다. 특히 internal 오차 보정은 수신기 모듈을 이루고 있는 RF/IF 회로 소자들의 특성이 변하기 때문에 정기적으로 오차 보정이 필요하다고 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 비동기 CDMA 시스템에서 안테나 배열 소자들 간의 진폭 이득과 위상 응답에 오차가 생길 때 온라인으로 보정 할 수 있는 알고리듬을 제안한다. 부공간(subspace) 기반의 알고리듬의 성능 평가와 분석 결과를 제시하기 위해 실험으로 측정한 데이터를 이용하였고, simulated annealing이라는 최적화 방법을 사용하여 부공간(subspace) 기반의 알고리듬에서 발생하는 초기값 문제를 해결하고 모의실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.369-376
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• 2003

This study was conducted to develop a precision measurement method of water content in soil (find sand and silty sand) using dual RF impedance changes. The electrically stable perpendicular plate capacitive sensor was fabricated and utilized to sense the water content in soil. Crystal oscillators of 5 and 20 MHz and related circuits were designed to detect the capacitance changes of a perpendicular plate capacitive sensor with soil samples at various volumetric water contents. A multiple regression model for volumetric water content having dual oscillation frequency changes at 5 and 20 MHz as independent variables resulted in coefficient of determination of 0.963 and standard error calibration of 0.030 cm$^3$/cm$^3$ for calibration and coefficient of determination of 0.966, standard error of prediction of 0.027 cm$^3$/cm$^3$ and bias of 0.001 cm$^3$/cm$^3$ for prediction.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.718-721
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• 2013

This letter proposes a novel calibration method for a multiport amplifier (MPA) to achieve optimum port-to-port isolation by correcting both the amplitude and phase of the calibration signals. The proposed architecture allows for the detection of the phase error and amplitude error in each RF signal path simultaneously and can enhance the calibrated resolution by controlling the analog phase shifters and attenuators. The designed $2{\times}2$ and $4{\times}4$ MPAs show isolation characteristics of 30 dB and 27 dB over a frequency range of 19.5 GHz to 22.5 GHz, respectively.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2001년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.11 No.1
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• pp.310-314
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• 2001

측정의 소급성과 신뢰성을 확보한다는 전제하에 오차의 개념을 버리고 측정시의 측정불확도를 분석하는 것이 측정과학에 있어서 세계적인 추세이다. 본 논문에서는 전달표준인 열전압변환기를 사용하여 고주파전압계의 정밀 교정에서 불확도를 산출하기 위하여 수학적 모델을 설정하고 측정에 관계되는 모든 불확도 요인을 분석하였다. 케이블의 영향과 열전대감지기와 직류전압계의 상관관계, 직류소스, RF소스, 감쇠기, 반사계수와 DUT 등 측정에 있어서 관계되는 모든 불확도요인을 분석하여 확장불확도를 산출하였다.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2003년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.13 No.1
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• pp.163-167
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• 2003

In this paper, an air-suspension type RF MEMS inductor is fabricated, and an appropriate de-embedding scheme for 3-dimenstional MEMS structure is applied and verified with inductance calculation algorithm. With the presented de-embedding method, parasitics from contanct pads and feeding lines are effectively and accurately de-embedded using open and short calibration procedure, and only spiral and posts can be characterized as a high-Q inductor structure. The validity of the de-embedding method is verified by the comparison of the measured and calculated inductances of two 1.5 and 2.5 turn square spiral inductors. The open-short de-embedded inductance error is below 5% each case in comparison with the calculated value based on H.M. Greenhouse's algorithm.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.572-580
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• 2015

저고도 비행체는 다중 경로 간섭의 영향으로 인해 계측 레이더의 RF 스킨 추적 시 고각 방향의 오차 신호 증가로 안정적인 추적 데이터를 획득할 수 없다. 이 한계를 극복하고자 본 논문에서는 레이저 추적기를 이용한 저고도 비행체 추적 기법을 제안하였다. 짧은 펄스폭과 좁은 빔 폭을 갖는 레이저의 특성을 이용하여 각도 해상도를 높이는 방법으로 다중 경로 간섭의 영향을 줄일 수 있다. 지면에 설치된 통합형 교정기와 해수면의 표적선을 대상으로 RF 스킨 추적, 비콘 추적, 레이저 추적 결과의 불확도 및 오차 신호 분석을 통해 다중경로 간섭 조건에서 레이저 추적이 RF 스킨 추적에 비해 추적 성능이 뛰어남을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.383-397
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• 2013

In this paper, the sensitivity of massive antenna arrays and digital beamforming to radio frequency (RF) chain in-phase quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance is studied and analyzed. The analysis shows that massive antenna arrays are increasingly sensitive to such RF chain imperfections, corrupting heavily the radiation pattern and beamforming capabilities. Motivated by this, novel RF-aware digital beamforming methods are then developed for automatically suppressing the unwanted effects of the RF I/Q imbalance without separate calibration loops in all individual receiver branches. More specifically, the paper covers closed-form analysis for signal processing properties as well as the associated radiation and beamforming properties of massive antenna arrays under both systematic and random RF I/Q imbalances. All analysis and derivations in this paper assume ideal signals to be circular. The well-known minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer and a widely-linear (WL) extension of it, called WL-MVDR, are analyzed in detail from the RF imperfection perspective, in terms of interference attenuation and beamsteering. The optimum RF-aware WL-MVDR beamforming solution is formulated and shown to efficiently suppress the RF imperfections. Based on the obtained results, the developed solutions and in particular the RF-aware WL-MVDR method can provide efficient beamsteering and interference suppressing characteristics, despite of the imperfections in the RF circuits. This is seen critical especially in the massive antenna array context where the cost-efficiency of individual RF chains is emphasized.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.23-26
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• 2004

Five-port reflectometer which consists of a ring with 5 arms (two inputs, three outputs) and three RF power detectors has been used as a vector network analyser, a demodulator in the homodyne receiver as well as in Phase Looked Loop (PLL) and so on. Calibration of five-port reflectometer is an important task. In this paper, we present a calibration method of five-port for a propagation channel sounder. The method is based on measurement of the phase differences between the three voltages at the five-port's outputs in order to determine the ratio of two input incident waves. The frequency channel sounder based on five-port is calibrated for each frequency from 2.2 GHz to 2.6 GHz with 1 MHz step. This method can also determine the absolute delays of each propagation path in the propagation channel. The calibration method is validated using measurement data.