• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.63-72
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• 2013

The ultra-wideband (UWB) spectrum available for commercial applications has offered us an opportunity to achieve high-speed wireless communications and high-accuracy location applications. As one of key research areas in UWB technology, a lot of innovative broadband and miniaturization techniques for UWB antennas have been greatly invented and developed for years. This paper reviews the development of UWB antenna design in the past decade. Starting with a brief introduction of the specific requirements and promising applications of UWB systems, the unique design challenges of UWB antennas are highlighted. Next, the important milestones of UWB antenna designs are briefed. After that, a variety of planar UWB antennas invented for broadband operation, miniaturization, and multiple functions are introduced. Last, the comments on the development of UWB antennas in future are shared.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.362-368
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 초광대역 안테나에 적용되는 임펄스 신호의 특성에 대해 기술하였다. 초광대역 안테나에 적용되는 펄스의 형태는 시영역에서 나노초 또는 피코초 이하의 펄스폭을 가지며 주파수 영역에서는 광대역의 특성을 가진다. 임펄스 생성회로를 설계하여 10MHz의 정현파를 입력 파형으로 하였을 때 출력으로 펄스폭이 130ps 및 대응되는 대역폭으로는 4GHz 정도의 임펄스가 생성됨을 측정을 통해 확인하였다. 저항이 장하된 초광대역 안테나에서 단위 길이당 저항 값을 파라미터로 설정하였을 때 수신되는 임펄스의 특성을 시영역에서는 펄스의 충실도, 주파수 영역에서는 피크 값 대비 -10dB 대역폭으로 확인하였다. 저항이 장하되는 값이 커질수록 임펄스는 생성된 임펄스와 유사한 파형으로 수신되며 이는 충실도 0.98로 산출되었고 해당하는 대역폭은 3.4GHz로 측정되어 실험으로 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.71-73
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• 2009

In this letter, novel antennas with two spiral elements are presented for ultra-wideband application. The original antenna consists of a T-shaped microstrip feed line, two spiral radiating elements, and a ground plane with two circular slots. It measures 30 mm ${\times}$ 40 mm ${\times}$ 1.6 mm. Spiral elements are used to increase the lower bandwidth limit. To further reduce the size of the antenna, the original antenna is cut in half by using the symmetry of the surface current distributions. The proposed antennas feature omnidirectional radiation patterns and good gain flatness.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.400-405
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• 2018

This paper presents a compact ultra-wideband (UWB) flexible monopole antenna design on a paper substrate. The proposed antenna is made of iterations of a circular slot inside an octagonal metallic patch. This fractal-based geometry has been deployed to achieve compactness along with improved bandwidth, measured reflection coefficient -10 dB bandwidth ranging from 2.7 to 15.8 GHz. The overall size of the antenna is $26mm{\times}19mm{\times}0.5mm$, which makes it a compact one. The substrate used is paper and the main features like environment friendly, flexibility, green electronics applications and low cost of fabrication are the key factors for the proposed antenna. The aforementioned UWB prototype is suitable for many wireless communication systems such as WiMAX, WiFi, RFID and WSN applications. Antenna has been tested for the effect of bending by placing it over a curved surface of a very small radius of 10 mm.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2009

마이크로스트립-CPS (coplanar stripline)의 초광대역 발룬을 이용하여 초광대역 부품을 개발하였다. 초광대역 발룬은 DC 근처부터 40 GHz 이상의 대역에서 동작하고 있으며, 이를 응용한 초광대역 부품 또한 10 GHz 이상의 주파수 대역을 가지고 있다. 개발된 초광대역 부품은 초광대역 안테나, 주파수 혼합기, 주파수 체배기 및 검파기가 있으며, 주로 상용으로 판매되는 캐리어(carrier) 형태 및 하우징 형태의 소자로 개발이 되었다. 뿐만 아니라, 새로운 구조의 표면실장형 전이구조를 개발하여 이러한 소자를 표면실장형의 형태로 구현하였다. 표면 실장형 소자의 한 예로, 체배기는 출력 주파수 8 ~ 28 GHz의 초광대역의 특성을 가지고 있다. 고성능, 저가의 초광대역 소자는 기존의 비싼 소자들을 대체 할 수 있으며, 향후 UWB의 여러 응용분야에 사용 되리라 예상된다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.328-343
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• 2003

Orthogonal pulse-shape modulation using Hermite pulses for ultra-wideband communications is reviewed. Closedform expressions of cross-correlations among Hermite pulses and their corresponding transmit and receive waveforms are provided. These show that the pulses lose orthogonality at the receiver in the presence of differentiating antennas. Using these expressions, an algebraic model is established based on the projections of distorted receive waveforms onto the orthonormal basis given by the set of normalized orthogonal Hermite pulses. Using this new matrix model, a number of pulse-shape modulation schemes are analyzed and a novel orthogonal design is proposed. In the proposed orthogonal design, transmit waveforms are constructed as combinations of elementary Hermites with weighting coefficients derived by employing the Gram-Schmidt (QR) factorization of the differentiating distortion model’s matrix. The design ensures orthogonality of the vectors at the output of the receiver bank of correlators, without requiring compensation for the distortion introduced by the antennas. In addition, a new set of elementary Hermite Pulses is proposed which further enhances the performance of the new design while enabling a simplified hardware implementation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.460-468
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• 2014

This paper addresses the problem of joint time of arrival (TOA) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in impulse radio ultra-wideband systems with a two-antenna receiver and links the joint estimation of TOA and DOA to the sparse representation framework. Exploiting this link, an orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm is used for TOA estimation in the two antennas, and then the DOA parameters are estimated via the difference in the TOAs between the two antennas. The proposed algorithm can work well with a single measurement vector and can pair TOA and DOA parameters. Furthermore, it has better parameter-estimation performance than traditional propagator methods, such as, estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques algorithms matrix pencil algorithms, and other new joint-estimation schemes, with one single snapshot. The simulation results verify the usefulness of the proposed algorithm.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2005년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.15 No.1
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• pp.205-210
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• 2005

In this paper, a planar half-circle shape ultra-wideband(UWB) antenna fed by CPW is designed, fabricated and measured for UWB communications. Within the UWB band(3.1 GHz $\sim$ 10.6 GHz), 5.15 GHz $\sim$ 5.825 GHz frequency band is used by IEEE 802.lla WLAN applications. It may be necessary to notch out this band to avoid interference with IEEE 802.lla WLAN. Therefore, we have proposed three kinds of UWB antennas having a notch function, such as a rectangular slot, a hat-shaped slot, a circle-shaped slot. The notch frequency of the proposed antenna can be adjusted by controlling the slot length or slot width. From the measured results, the proposed antennas show a good gain flatness except the IEEE 802.lla WLAN frequency band and have a reasonable agreement with simulated results.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.913-919
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 밀리미터파 시스템에 응용이 가능한, 마이크로스트립으로 급전되는 초광대역 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나의 새로운 설계법을 제시하고 그 실험결과를 보여주고 있다. 초광대역 특성을 가지는 마이크로스트립-CPS 전이 구조 혹은 발룬을 적용하여 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나 고유의 초광대역 특성을 얻었고, 안테나와 발룬의 연결은 임피던스 정합의 방법을 이용함으로 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나 설계를 간단하게 하였다. 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나 설계에는 페르미-디락(Fermi-Dirac) 테이퍼 함수와 corrugation을 적용하였다. 제안된 안테나는 23 GHz에서 58 GHz까지의 초광대역 주파수 특성을 가졌으며, 12에서 14 dBi의 비교적 높고 평탄한 이득과 낮은 부엽 레벨을 가졌다. 또한, 4개의 소자로 이루어진 간단한 선형 배열 안테나를 통하여 광대역 위상 배열 및 밀리미터파 센서에 응용될 수 있음을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.62-67
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• 2010

In this paper, an ultra-wideband internal antenna for use in mobile applications is proposed. The proposed antenna has symmetrical bi-arm structures printed on the top and bottom of the substrate, and it occupies a compact area of 10 mm ${\times}$ 10 mm ${\times}$ 1 mm. The designed antenna has an impedance bandwidth from 3 GHz to 12 GHz and near omnidirectional radiation patterns over the frequency band of interest. The group delay between two antennas fabricated using the proposed design is less than 0.8 ns, and the maximum gain variation is about 3.16 dB.