• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.1071-1077
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• 2002

In this paper, we have studied the dependence of insertion loss of the pressed microstrip PBG ring consisting of coupled two microstrip lines. When the distance decreases, two or three attenuation poles are created by the coupling between the lines. Thus the pressed PBG ring exhibits a wide stop band and sharp cutoff characteristics.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.6 s.109
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• pp.529-537
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• 2006

Multi-layer PCBs are of ien used In compact microwave circuit design as density of PCB layout is increased. In this paper, the crosstalk between coupled lines connected with vias in a 4-layer PCB is investigated theoretically based on the circiuit-concept approach. Coupled lines connected with vias in a 4-layer PCB are divided into three sections, which are coupled microstrip lines and upper via section, center via section, and lower via and coupled microstrip lines section, respectively. Each section is represented by ABCD matrix. By cascading these three ABCD matrices crosstalk between coupled lines connected with vias in a 4-layer PCB is approximately calculated. The validity of this theoretical approach is verified by comparing the calculated results with the simulated ones using HFSS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.1168-1175
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• 2000

To observe propagation characteristics of microstrip lines on YIG film, the FDTD is employed. For various GGG substrate and YIG film, the dispersion curves and the bandwidth of the cutoff region are calculated. And the distribution of the electric fields of the transverse plane underneath the conductor strip is obtained near upper and lower cutoff frequency. The results of two and three dimensional FDTD for the upper cutoff frequency are compared with spectral domain approach(SDA). A good agreement is verified, although there is relative error 6% between the results calculated by the two methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.287-295
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• 1985

Analysis and design procedures for the symmetrical and non-symmetrical interdigitated four-port microstrip couplers conssiting of symmetrical three lines is presented. The configuration is simple and a lesser number of bond wires are requires as compared to the four-line couplers which are used. Physical dimensions of 3. 6 and 10dB couplers with substrates having typical dielectric constant values of 2.55 and 10 can be found by using the tables and charts.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.5 s.120
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• pp.547-552
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• 2007

In this paper, the coupled microstrip lines of hairpin type are applied to design a compact microstrip ring hybrid. When the gap decreases, three attenuation poles are created by coupling between the lines. The proposed structure can achieve a significant reduction of size and suppression of the harmonics. And it has the same frequency responses of conventional ring hybrid at 2.55 GHz. The harmonics are suppressed to below -20 dB up to 12 GHz, including the third harmonic. The ring part size of the proposed ring hybrid is reduced to one forth of the conventional ring hybrid. The measured frequency responses agree well with simulated ones.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.396-396
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• 2000

Three-Dimensional FDTD method is applied to analyze the dielectric resonator coupled with two microstrip lines. We model accurately the curved surface using Noriaki model. The frequency resolution is 106.46 MHz by the conventional FFT However it is not sufficient for determining its resonant frequency. So we introduce the Pad approximation and Stoer-Bulirsch method in order to have the high frequency resolution degree, 1.00 MHz. All results are compared with the measured data. As a result, we acquire the very precise result through the Pad approximation. And sinusoidal wave is applied. From the plot of the electric and magnetic field distribution, it is shown that the resonant mode is $TE_{01{\delta}}$ mode.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.36-43
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• 2000

Three-Dimensional FDTD method is applied to analyze the dielectric resonator coupled with two microstrip lines. We model accurately the curved surface using Noriaki model. The frequency resolution is 106.46 MHz by the conventional FFT However it is not sufficient for determining its resonant frequency. So we introduce the Pad approximation and Stoer-Bulirsch method in order to have the high frequency resolution degree, 1.00 MHz. All results are compared with the measured data. As a result, we acquire the very precise result through the Pad approximation. And sinusoidal wave is applied. From the plot of the electric and magnetic field distribution, it is shown that the resonant mode is TE$_{01{\delta}}$ mode.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.513-520
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• 2001

In this paper, the directional coupler using three layer microstrip substrate is proposed and the design method is notified. Modified re-entrant mode coupler is the proposed structure that one layer is added on upper plane of coupled transmission lines and the floating conductor is placed on added layer's upper planes. This structure has high coupling for the increase of odd mode capacitance and also has good performance in VSWR, isolation, phase difference because the difference of effective permittivity is small in each mode. We have designed the coupler from the calculation of impedance, effective permittivity, coupling coefficient using even, odd mode analysis method. From the simulation and measurement, proposed coupler has about 2 dB more tighter coupling than conventional coupler and also has good performance in VSWR, isolation, phase difference.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.62-65
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• 2017

In this paper, three DC Block designs are presented which efficiently meet the need of modern-day compactsize wireless communication systems. As one of the important parts of a complete system design, the proposed microstrip-based DC block with coupled transmission lines efficiently attenuates unwanted frequencies that cause damage to the system. The compact-sized DC block structures are created by incorporating an extended coupled-line section with a radial stub, an enveloped coupled-line section, and using alternate up-down meandering techniques. The structures are analyzed for the L-Band using a high-resistive silicon substrate. At a resonating frequency of 1.575 GHz, the designed DC Block structures have a return loss better than -10 dB, an insertion loss of around -1 dB, and also possess wide pass-band characteristics.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.356-359
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• 2006

A monolithic SiGe HBT variable gain driver amplifier(VGDA) with high dB-linear gain control and high linearity has been developed as a driver amplifier with ground-shielded microstrip lines for 5-GHz transmitters. The VGDA consists of three blocks such as the cascode gain-control stage, fixed-gain output stage, and voltage control block. The circuit elements were optimized by using the Agilent Technologies' ADSs. The VGDA was implemented in STMicroelectronics' 0.35${\mu}m$ Si-BiCMOS process. The VGDA exhibits a dynamic gain control range of 34 dB with the control voltage range from 0 to 2.3 V in 5.15-5.35 GHz band. At 5.15 GHz, maximum gain and attenuation are 10.5 dB and -23.6 dB, respectively. The amplifier also produces a 1-dB gain-compression output power of -3 dBm and output third-order intercept point of 7.5 dBm. Input/output voltage standing wave ratios of the VGDA keep low and constant despite change in the gain-control voltage.