• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
• /
• v.49 no.2
• /
• pp.50-55
• /
• 2012

Fabry-Perot (FP) resonator antennas with scan capabilities are described in this paper. The proposed antennas, excited by a thinned array, not only achieve higher directivities but also improve suppression of sidelobes relative to that of the thin array alone. Compared to the conventional microstrip patch array, the directivity enhancement and suppression of sidelobe level were achieved by increase of the aperture size of the proposed Fabry-Perot resonator antenna.

• KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
• /
• v.4C no.6
• /
• pp.255-262
• /
• 2004

In this paper, a number of double-layered microwave integrated circuits (MIC) have been designed and analyzed based on a developed finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solver. The solver was first validated through comparisons of the computed results with those previously published throughout the literature. Subsequently, various double-layered MIC printed on both isotropic and anisotropic substrates and superstrates, which are frequently encountered in printed circuit boards (PCB), have been designed and analyzed. It was found that in addition to protecting circuits, the added superstrate layer can increase freedoms of design and improve circuit performance, and that the FDTD is indeed a robust and versatile tool for multilayer circuit design.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
• /
• 2005.11a
• /
• pp.198-199
• /
• 2005

Conformal mapping based models are given for interdigital capacitors on substrates with a thin superstrate and covering dielectric thin film. This model is useful for a wide range of dielectric constant and layer thickness. Interdigital capacitors with finger numbers n>3 are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
• /
• 2011.08a
• /
• pp.67-67
• /
• 2011

Compound semiconductor/CNTs composites have shown considerably improved efficiency improvement in photovoltaic devices, which is often attributed to two different factors. One is the formation of efficient electronic energy cascade structures. The other effect of CNTs on the performance of photovoltaic devices is the decrement of interfacial resistance. The interfacial resistances at n-type/ p-type materials and/or n-type materials/TCO electrode are reduced by an outstanding electrical property of CNTs. In addition to the effects of CNTs, we report the third reason for increment of efficiency in photovoltaic devices by CNT's well-known electrical field enhancement effects. The improved ${\beta}$ values in reverse-FE currents of CIGS electrode with SWNTs layers indicate the enhancement of electrical field in photovoltaic devices, which implies the acceleration of the electron transfer rate in the cell. Due to the formation of an efficient electronic energy cascade structure and the decrease of the interfacial resistance as well as the improvement of the electrical field in the photovoltaic devices, the power conversion efficiency of electrochemically deposited superstrate-type CIGS solar cells was increased 24.3% in the presence of SWNTs and showed 10.40% conversion efficiency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.26 no.6B
• /
• pp.693-700
• /
• 2001

본 논문에서는 유전체 덮개층을 갖는 일축성 매질에서 마이크로스트립 패치 안테나의 공진 주파수와 입력 임피던스, 방사패턴에 대해 연구하였다. 제안된 구조의 구성관계식으로부터 파수영역 다이애딕 그린 함수를 유도하여 전계 적분 방정식을 계산해 낸 후에 갤러킨 모멘트법으로 이산화하여 행렬형태로 표현하였다. 수치 해석적 수렴을 고려하여 사용된 기저 함수는 패치 위의 실제 전류밀도와 가장 유사한 형태인 정현적 기저함수를 선택하였다. 수치해석 결과로 기판의 유전율 변화와 덮개층의 두께 변화와 공진 주파수와 입력 임피던스 그리고 방사 패턴에 미치는 영향에 대해 논의하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
• /
• v.10 no.5
• /
• pp.727-737
• /
• 1999

Printed microstrip antennas are known to have limitations in terms of bandwidth and efficiency all imposed by the presence of the dielectric substrate. In this paper, to overcome these limitations, rather than using a superstrate geometry, the printed circuit is etched out of metal and supported in "strategic points" by(metallic or nonmetallic) post. The main motivation for this work was to obtain the wide bandwidth microstrip antennal which exhibits a higher efficiency than conventional ones. In this paper, to increase the bandwidth, patch sizes, electrical thickness and impedance matching are considered.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
• /
• v.66 no.6
• /
• pp.923-926
• /
• 2017

In this study, a novel wideband conformal thin antenna is presented for endoscopic capsule application at the 915 MHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. The thickness of the antenna is only 0.2 mm which can be wrapped inside a capsule's inner wall. By cutting meandered slots on patch, open end slots on ground and utilizing long arm, the proposed antenna can obtain significant size reduction. The net volume of the proposed antenna including substrate and superstrate is only $37.4mm^3$ ($187mm^2$ surface area). This conformal antenna has shown good performance through simulation and measurement with maximum gain of -23 dBi and wide bandwidth from 137 MHz - 205 MHz depending on different environment. In addition, the effect of internal materials specially metallic battery is discussed briefly.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.12 no.5
• /
• pp.406-413
• /
• 2001

We report theoretical and experimental results for the wavelength and polarization selectivity of a fiber-to-planar waveguide coupler made of a side polished single mode fiber covered with a planer waveguide incorporating a thin metal film. A simple but exact approach to obtain the modal properties of multilayer planar waveguide with a thin metal film is described. The device was modeled into equivalent 1 dimensional structure and its behaviour was analyzed based on coupled mode theory. The effects of metal film thickness and refractive index of superstrate on the device properties were measured and explained.

• ETRI Journal
• /
• v.41 no.3
• /
• pp.289-297
• /
• 2019

In this paper, a wideband, circularly polarized patch antenna is proposed that leverages the unidirectional resonant modes of a circular patch mounted on top of a grounded dielectric-ferrite substrate. The proposed antenna is fed via the proximity coupling method and several parasitically coupled patches are placed on a dielectric superstrate to enhance the impedance bandwidth of the antenna. The resonant modes of the structure rotate only in the clockwise or counter clockwise directions. In the frequency range where the effective permeability of the ferrite layer is negative, the resonance frequencies of these modes differ significantly, which produces a large axial ratio (AR) bandwidth. For the proposed antenna, the numerical results show the 10 dB impedance bandwidth to be around 44% and the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth to be higher than 64%.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
• /
• v.1 no.2
• /
• pp.96-100
• /
• 1996

This paper describes a concrete method for computing characteristic impedances and effective dielectric constants of the microstrip coupled lines without and with a dielectric overlay. The frequency-independent spectral domain method is used for the analysis of these lines. This method is a powerful, accurate, and numerically efficient approach for planar transmission line structure. For designing the optimal directional coupler, the velocities of even and odd mode must be equal but velocities of these two modes are different in the conventional coupled line which is inhomogeneous. The results show that these two velocities can be almost same according to variations of structural and material parameters in terms of the overlay(superstrate).