• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.1
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• pp.110-116
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new diversity antenna which is the base of MIMO, tunable and reconfigurable antennas. The antenna has a small size and high inter-antenna isolation resulting from the compact radiating element comprising a meandered line and an open-loop combined in one limited uniplanar space and a modified T-shaped decoupling structure, respectively. In a WiMAX band, the radiating element and the entire antenna are $0.092{\lambda}$ and $0.2216{\lambda}$ in size, which shows effective size-reduction and the gain and efficiency of the proposed antenna attached to the ground of a handheld device are 3.7dBi and 56% acceptable to the industrial standard.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.7 s.98
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• pp.720-731
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• 2005

In this paper, radiation patterns of electrically small inverted-F antennas(IFAs) on an electrically large cylindrical conducting body like a satellite launcher are experimentally studied. First, radiation patterns are obtained by using method of moment and a commercial software tool, HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator) and the results are compared and analyzed with experimental ones. Especially, when the size of a cylindrical conducting body is electrically large, the effects of the size of a cylindrical conducting body on radiation patterns are studied by considering only the partial ground in vicinity of antennas. And then, when one and two inverted-F antennas are on the cylindrical conducting body, radiation patterns are simulated and investigated by using method of moment and HFSS. Good agreements are observed among the results by method of moment, HFSS, and experiments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.9A
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• pp.1022-1030
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• 2004

The next generation cellular radio systems require high data rate transmission and large system capacity In order to meet these requirements, multiple antennas can be used at the base and mobile stations, forming MIMO(multiple-input, multiple-output) channels This paper considers a downlink MIMO system assuming a large number of base station antennas, a small number of mobile station antennas, and rich-scattering, quasi-stationary, and flat-fading channel environments When the channel state information is given at the base station in a single user system, a MIMO technique with SVD(singular value decomposition) and water-filling can achieve the maximal downlink channel capacity. In multi-user environments, however, SDMA(space division multiple acces) technique can be used to further increase the total channel capacity supported by the base station This paper proposes a MIMO SDMA technique which can transmit parallel data streams to each of multiple users. The proposed method. can achieve higher total channel capacity than SVD-based MIMO techniques or conventional SDMA using smart antennas.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.43-52
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• 2008

Radiation characteristics of microstrip patch antennas integrated with mushroom-like EBG structures in length direction, width direction and all directions are analyzed. Patch antennas integrated with EBG structures in length direction shows the best radiation characteristics among the cases integrated in three directions. The case for the feed point of a patch antenna located in the center of both EBG structures integrated with a patch antenna shows better symmetric E-plane radiation pattern, higher forward radiation intensity, and lower backward radiation intensity compared to the case for the center of a patch antenna located in the center of both EBG structures. The variation of the radiation characteristics of patch antennas integrated with EBG structures more than 4 periods versus number of periods of EBG structures integrated is very small.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.103-108
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• 2023

In this paper, a performance enhancement study of an AESA antenna that can be applied to a seeker that serves as the eye of a missile was conducted, and the performance of the antenna was verified through actual measurement. When designing an AESA antenna, the optimization of the active reflection coefficient must be considered during transmission due to the mutual coupling between radiators that inevitably occurs, and the selection of a radiator that can overcome the space limitation of the seeker with a small size/light weight is an important design consideration. Accordingly, optimization in terms of electrical performance and low-profile structure is required through research on array antennas for application to the AESA structure. The radiator designed and measured in this paper was designed as an SFN that can satisfy the low-profile structure while enhancing the performance of a general vivaldi antenna. Through this paper, it was confirmed that SFN has the same broadband characteristics as general vivaldi antennas and has optimized characteristics required for AESA antennas. The structure optimized through simulation confirmed the pattern characteristics and active reflection coefficient characteristics through the fabrication of actual proto-type antennas.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.33-37
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• 2009

In this paper, a printed small Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antenna with directive radiation characteristics based on combination of electric-magnetic radiators is presented. The combinations of the electric and magnetic type antennas result in the directive radiation patterns for all observed UWB frequency band. Simple combination of dipole antenna and loop antenna is also presented to show that proper configuration of electric radiator and magnetic radiator can produces directive radiation characteristics. The target frequency is from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz with size of $15\;mm{\times}31\;mm$. A proto-type of the combined antenna is simulated, fabricated and measured. Simulation and experimental results of input impedance and gain characteristics of the proposed antenna are presented. There are good agreements between the simulated and measured VSWR curves. Also, the results show the directive radiation characteristics with small antenna form factor over the target frequency range.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.204-209
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• 2005

A small size broadband microstrip patch antenna with small ground plane has been fabricated using MEMS. Multiple layer substrates are used to realize small size and broadband characteristics. The microstrip patch is divided into 3 pieces and each patch is connected to each other using a metal microstrip line. The fabrication process is simple and only one mask is needed. Two types of microtrip antennas are fabricated. Type A is the micros trip antenna with metal lines and type B is the microstrip antenna without metal lines. The size of proposed microstip antenna is $8^{*}12^{*}2mm^{3}$ and the experimental results show that the antenna type A and type B have the bandwidth of 420 MHz at 5.3 GHz and 480 MHz at 5.66 GHz, respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.603-604
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• 2006

A small size broadband microstrip patch antenna with small ground plane has been fabricated using MEMS. Multiple layer of high and low dielectric substrates are used to realize small size and broadband characteristics. The microstrip patch is divided into 4 pieces and each patch is connected to each other using a metal microstrip line. The fabrication process is very simple and only one mask is needed. Two types of microtrip antennas are fabricated. Type A is the microstrip antenna with metal lines and type B is the microstrip antenna without metal lines. The size of proposed microstip antenna is $8*12*2mm^3$ and the experimental results show that the antenna type A and type B have the bandwidth of 420MHz at 5.3 GHz and 480MHz at 5.66 GHz, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.306-310
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 기존의 혼 안테나에 Dielectric rod를 삽입하는 구조를 사용하였다. 입력구조는 Rectangular Waveguide Feed에 Cone을 접목시키는 형태로 구현되었으며 기존의 E-Plane taper구조보다 특성이 양호하며 소형화를 구현해냈다. 제작된 안테나의 중심주파수는 37GHz이며 정재파비 특성 또한 양호하다. 여러 Feeding 구조 중 Bandwidth를 좀더 확장할 수 있는 구조에 초점을 맞추어 대역폭은 13%이상을 구현했으며 시뮬레이션 툴은 Ansoft HFSS V7.0으로 최적화한 후 제작 및 측정하였다. 또한 사용된 Dielectric rod의 제질은 Teflon(ETFE, $\varepsilon$$_{r}$=2.03)을 사용하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.77-83
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• 2010

Radiation characteristics of $5{\times}4$ pin array patch antennas are compared to those of $5{\times}2$ pin array patch antennas for several substrate thicknesses using the computer simulation. Since the number of unit cells of a $5{\times}2$ pin array patch antenna is half of that of a $5{\times}4$ pin array patch antenna, the number of pins used in a $5{\times}2$ pin array patch antenna is half of that in a $5{\times}4$ pin array patch antenna and the patch width of a $5{\times}2$ pin array patch antenna is very small compared to that of a $5{\times}4$ pin array patch antenna. However, the radiation characteristics of a $5{\times}2$ pin array patch antenna are almost similar to those of a $5{\times}4$ pin array patch antenna.