• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.76-82
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• 2008

The communication function and performance between low earth orbit satellite and ground should be verified by various TC&R RF test before the launch. In this paper, the procedure is examined from the preparation of the TC&R test to getting the results through measurement and the factors which should be measured to acquire reliable results is also described. Finally, it is verified that the results acquired through this procedure satisfy the requirement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.103-104
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• 2014

Wide Area Differential GNSS(WA-DGNSS) was developed in order to improve the accuracy and integrity performance of GNSS. In Korea, WA-DGNSS development project, which aims to develop core algorithms and verify the performance using pseudolite-based demo system, is currently in progress. In this paper, overall structure of developed system and experimental methods which enables the post-processing test with commercial receiver will be described. In this system, pseudolite is used to broadcast augmenting signal and RF signal logger and broadcaster were used to test the performance. Performance test was conducted broadcasting the logged RF signal and pseudolite signal to commercial receiver and those results will be described.

• Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-46
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• 2006

This study was carried out to investigate a radio-frequency/vacuum (RF/V) drying ability and physical properties of the green boards and the pre-kiln dried boards with 40 mm thickness, and the 70 mm-thick green board of Iroko (Milicia excelsa). The major results were summarized as follows; The drying time from initial moisture content (MC) of 110% to approximate 6% MC for a 40mm-thick green board was 192 hours, and about 200 hours for the 70 mm-thick green board, respectively and so the RF/V drying times were dramatically shortened compared to conventional kiln drying time. The case hardenings at the RF/V drying completion stage test were very negligible, thus represented almost no existence of the residual stress. The checks were very slightly formed on all of the boards during the RF/V drying test, but crook appeared quite severely. During the accelerating test, the water-resistant treated specimens had not experienced any signs of checking occurred, whereas the control boards had encountered very frequent occurrences of end checking and slight surface checking. There were no observations of warping and discoloring regardless of the treatment.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.83-91
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• 2007

An experimental verification of multipactor(MP) discharge for S-band diplexer as a sample DUT for space application by an in-house MP test facility is proposed. The designed diplexer having two BPFs for Rx and Tx is applied to a design of five pole inter-digital cavity type band pass filter with chebyshev response, it has 2.7 % bandwidth centered at 2.232 and 2.055 GHz for Rx, Tx, respectively. To avoid the MP discharge, the accurate design and analysis methods based on 3D EM field analysis are considered. The proposed in-house MP test facility consists of a phase detecting system using a doubly balanced mixer as a simple, low cost and real time MP test method compared with results of previously well-known MP detection systems as cross reference methods. The calculated MP threshold RF input power is 43.13 dBm. The measured one is 43 dBm and 44 dBm for CW, pulsed mode test, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.5 s.347
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• pp.34-47
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• 2006

In this paper, a new testing technique for core components of wireless transceiver was proposed. That was, band fault models (including the information of specifications in the analogue and RF IC) and methods which can test specifications in the time domain easily by observing a variation of band fault models in the circuit output were proposed and developed. This technique had an advantage over testing technique in frequency domain because it didn't need expensive test equipments and could reduce the time required. Test technique proposed in this paper was adapted to the test of 5.25 GHz low noise amplifier and proved that this testing technique was efficient in RF IC including low noise amplifier.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.12 no.3 s.36
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• pp.207-212
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• 2005

Al, Ti, Ta, and Cr thin films were deposited on a polyimide substrate using DC magnetron sputter to study the adhesion characteristics of metal films on polyimide substrates, while RF bias of 0 - 400 W was applied to the substrate during DC sputtering. The adhesion strength was evaluated using a 90-degree peel test. The peel tests showed that the adhesion strength was enhanced by applying the RF bias to the substrate in all specimens. Scanning electron microscopy and Auger depth profile of the fractured surfaces indicate that the polyimide underwent cohesive failure during peeling and heavy deformation was also observed in the metal films peeled from the polyimide substrate when the RF bias applied during the deposition. Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy revealed that the metal/polyimide interface was not clear and complicated. This complicated interface, likely formed due to the RF bias applied to the substrate, was attributed to the adhesion enhancement observed during the bias sputtering.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.103-107
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• 2005

There is an X-band transmission system in KOMPSAT-2 in order to downlink the acquired image data in high speed. KOMPSAT-2 employs a steerable high gain X-band antenna for that purpose. During the ground test, the X-band RF radiation is so strong that it has to be controlled for safety, while spacecraft needs to keep flight configuration. Also in a launch site of which all test facilities are the subjects of strict radiation control, the antenna system should be tested again without any change in the configuration. To limit the actual radiation of RF power, an antenna hat was manufactured and thoroughly tested to demonstrate the spacecraft safety when using it.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.6 s.336
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

This paper presents a new low-cost fault-based Built-In Self-Test (BIST) scheme and technique for 1.8GHz RF receiver front end. The technique utilizes input impedance matching measurement. The BIST block and RF receiver front end are designed using 0.25m CMOS technology on a single chip. The technique is simple and inexpensive. The overhead of the BIST circuit is approximately $10\%$ of the total area of the RF front end.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.104-107
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• 2000

We designed and implemented the RFIC(RF front-end IC) for DTV(Digital TV) tuner. The DTV tuner RF front-end consists of low noise IF amplifier fur the amplification of 900 MHz RF signal and down conversion mixer for the RF signal to 44MHz IF conversion. The RFIC is implemented on ETRI 0.8u high resistive (2㎘ -cm) and evaluated by on wafer, packaged chip test. The gain and IIP3 of IF amplifier are 15㏈ and -6.6㏈m respectively. For the down conversion mixer gain and IIP3 are 13㏈ and -6.5㏈m. Operating voltage of the IF amplifier and the down mixer is 5V, current consumption are 13㎃ and 26㎃ respectively.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.76-86
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• 2007

This paper describes the RF performance issues of UE RF Transceiver for W-CDMA system based on 3GPP specifications. the parameters of transmitter and receiver are derived from the viewpoint of RF performance. In order for UE to achieve high performance, the transceiver performance requirements such as ACIR, EVM, Peak Code Domain Error, spectrum emission mask, frequency error stability and TX power control dynamic range for transmitter and reference sensitivity level, blocking characteristics, noise figure, ACS, linearity, AGC dynamic range for receiver are considered. On the basis of the required parameters, the UE RF transceiver is designed and then implemented. The evaluation of RF performance is accomplished through practical test scenarios.