• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.218-226
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• 2024

This paper presents a novel circular fractal ring monopole antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) hardware with dual band-notched properties. The proposed antenna consists of four crescent-shaped nested rings, a tapered feeding line at the front of the dielectric material, and a semicircular ground plane on the backside. In this design, the nested rings are used both as a radiation element and a band rejection element. The proposed antenna has a bandwidth of 9.03 GHz, which works efficiently in the range of 2.63 GHz-11.66 GHz with the dual notched bands of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) at 3.15 GHz-3.66 GHz and wireless local area network (WLAN) at 4.9 GHz-5.9 GHz, respectively. The antenna has a compact size of 20 mm × 30 mm × 1 mm (0.177 × 0.265 × 0.0084 λ0) and is implemented using a flame-retardant type 4 (FR4) material. It has a maximum gain of approximately 4 dB in its operating range, and experimental results support the simulation predictions with high accuracy. The findings of this study imply that the designed antenna can be utilized in UWB applications.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.784-795
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 휴대폰용 내장형 PIFA 형태를 바탕으로 안테나 면을 4개의 element로 나눔으로써 넓은 대역폭과 향상된 이득 특성을 갖는 multi element 안테나를 제안하였으며, CDMA 대역인 $824{\sim}896MHz$와 RFID 대역인 $908.5{\sim}914MHz$를 동시에 만족하도록 설계하였다. 제안된 안테나의 크기는 $35{\times}15{\times}5mm^3$로 S사 A 모델의 케이스를 바탕으로 설계되었으며, 각 element를 안테나 안쪽으로 접어 넣음으로써 안테나의 소형화를 이루었다. 안테나의 광대역 및 향상된 이득 특성을 얻기 위해 안테나의 면을 4개의 element로 나누었다. 그 결과 전류의 패스가 길어지고 나뉘어짐에 따라, 안테나의 중심 주파수가 낮아지고 대역폭이 넓어지는 특성을 보였다. 또한, 안테나를 여러 개의 element로 나눔으로써 좀 더 고른 전류 분포를 갖게 되어 안테나의 효율이 향상되고 이득 값이 향상되는 특성을 가질 수 있었다. 좀 더 고른 전류 분포를 유도하여 안테나의 효율을 향상시키기 위해 전류가 각 element로 직접 전달되도록 급전 점에 변화를 주었다. 그 결과, 안테나의 이득 값이 더욱 향상되었으며, 급전 구조에 변화를 주면서 element를 4개로 설계하여 그 특성을 고찰한 결과, 가장 높은 이득 값을 보임을 확인하였다. 안테나의 이득 값을 유지한 상태로 소형화하기 위해 전류 방향을 고려하여 안테나의 각 element를 안테나의 앞면은 아래쪽으로 양 옆면은 안테나의 안쪽으로 접어 넣었다. 또한, 급전 위치를 조절하여 안테나의 공진 길이를 늘리기 위해 급전 점의 위치를 접지면의 윗부분에 배치하였다. 케이스를 고려하지 않은 상태로 원하는 안테나 특성을 얻었다고 하더라도, 케이스에 부착되면 주파수가 이동되고 원하는 주파수 대역에서 안테나 이득 값이 저하되기 때문에 휴대폰 케이스에 부착 시 $150{\sim}200MHz$의 주파수 이동이 발생함을 확인한 후에 1.08 GHz에 공진 주파수가 나타나도록 설계하였으며, 공진 주파수에서의 측정된 최대 이득 값은 3.1 dBi를 나타내었다. 케이스를 고려하여 측정한 경우, VSWR<2 기준 임피던스 대역폭은 $0.824{\sim}0.936GHz$로 110 MHz의 대역폭을 갖고 CDMA 대역과 RFID 대역을 동시에 만족할 수 있음을 나타내었다. 측정된 이득 값은 최소 -3.4 dBi에서 최대 -0.5 dBi를 나타내었고, 무지향성 패턴을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.715-718
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• 2002

TX/RX dual microstrip 1$\times$8 sub-array antennas are designed, fabricated, and measured for a wideband array antennas in communications. They have a Right Handed Circular Polarization (RHCP) for TX from 7.9 to 8.4 GHz and Left Handed Circular Polarization (LHCP) for RX from 7.25 to 7.75 GHz. Two stacked patches are used for a wideband characteristics and cornertruncated square patches are adopted for a circular polarization. To enhance bandwidth characteristics of a circular polarization, 1$\times$2 sequential rotation arrays are applied. From the measured results, 1$\times$8 microstrip sub-array antennas have a good agreement with those of the simulation. Therefore the sub-array antennas are applicable to satellite communication antennas, active phased array antennas, and radiators in other antennas.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.59-61
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• 2015

A wideband H-band detector operating near 300 GHz has been developed based on SiGe HBT technology. The detector consists of an on-chip antenna and a HBT differential pair for square-law detection. It showed responsivity of more than 1,700 V/W and noise equivalent power (NEP) smaller than $180pW/Hz^{0.5}$ for the measured frequency range of 250-350 GHz. The maximum responsivity and the minimum NEP were 5,155 V/W and $57pW/Hz^{0.5}$, respectively; both were obtained at 330 GHz with DC power dissipation at 9.1 W.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.395-402
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• 2019

In this paper, we implemented an Ultra-Wideband radar system using Stripmap Synthetic Apertrure Radar algorithm to recognize objects inside a box. Different window functions such as Hanning, Hamming, Kaiser, and Taylor functions to improve image recognition performance are applied and implemented to radar system. The Ultra-Wideband radar system with 3.1~4.8 GHz broadband and UWB antenna were implemented to recognize the conductor plate located inside 1m3 box. To obtain the image, we use the propagation data in the time domain according to the 1m movement distance and use the Range Doppler algorithm. The effect of different window functions to improve the recognition performance of the image are analyzed. From the compared results, we confirmed that the Kaiser window function can obtain a relatively good image.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.76-82
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• 2021

In this paper, the compressed sensing basic pursuit denoise algorithm adopted to synthetic aperture radar imaging is investigated to improve the object recognition. From the incomplete data sets for image processing, the compressed sensing algorithm had been integrated to recover the data before the conventional back- projection algorithm was involved to obtain the synthetic aperture radar images. This method can lead to the reduction of measurement events while scanning the objects. An ultra-wideband radar scheme using a stripmap synthetic aperture radar algorithm was utilized to detect objects hidden behind the box. The Ultra-Wideband radar system with 3.1~4.8 GHz broadband and UWB antenna were implemented to transmit and receive signal data of two conductive cylinders located inside the paper box. The results confirmed that the images can be reconstructed by using a 30% randomly selected dataset without noticeable distortion compared to the images generated by full data using the conventional back-projection algorithm.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2008

최근 안테나 내장형 DVB-H 단말기에 대한 요구가 점점 증가함에도 불구하고, DVB-H 안테나는 $470MHz{\sim}702MHz$의 넓은 대역폭($B_r=40%$)과 $430{\sim}640mm$의 파장 길이로 인하여 성능 확보에 큰 어려움을 겪고 있다. 제안된 안테나는 DVB-H 안테나가 SDA (Support structure Defined Antenna)로 해석될 수 있음에 착안하여, 광대역 특성을 지닌 폴디드 모노폴 방사체와 공진 주파수를 효과적으로 낮출 수 있는 윙형 소자로 설계되었다. 결과적으로 단말기에 장착된 DVB-H 안테나는 DVB-H 대역에서 정재파비 4:1 이하의 임피던스 대역폭과 $-5{\sim}2dBi$의 양호한 이득을 얻었다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.338-343
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• 2015

In order to avoid the interference from existing narrowband communication systems, this paper proposes a compact band-notched UWB (ultra wideband) antenna with size of $12mm{\times}22mm{\times}1.6mm$. Transmission line model is applied to analyzing wide impedance matching characteristic of the modified base antenna, which has a gradual stepped impedance feeder structure. The proposed antenna realizes dual band-notched function by combining two biased T-shaped parasitic elements on the rear side with a window aperture on the radiation patch. The simulation current distributions of the antenna reflect resonant suppression validity of the two methods. In addition, the measured radiation characteristics demonstrate the proposed antenna prevents signal interference from WLAN (5.15-5.825GHz) and WiMAX (3.4-3.69GHz) effectively, and the measured patterns show the antenna omnidirectional radiation in working frequencies.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.180-187
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• 2018

In this paper, we introduce a ground radiation antenna that uses controlled endless metal rim modes. In the proposed technique, the metal rim mode is tuned and excited as a one-wavelength radiator by a small ground radiation antenna. The proposed antenna occupies a clearance of $1mm{\times}4mm$ in a $30mm{\times}20mm$ ground plane. A metal rim with dimensions of $34mm{\times}24mm$ surrounds the ground plane, and the metal rim is separated from the ground plane by a gap of 2 mm. In addition, a lumped capacitor is inserted between the metal rim and the ground plane to control the characteristic mode of the metal rim such that the resonance of the metal rim is tuned to be equal to the operating frequency. By performing simulations and measurements, we compare the performance of the proposed antenna with that of a reference antenna that does not have an inserted capacitor between the metal rim and the ground plane. The results show that a significant improvement of the radiation performance is obtained by employing the proposed technique.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.346-349
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• 2005

The present study aims to design electrically and structurally effective antenna structures in order that the structural surface itself could become the antenna. The basic design concept is composite sandwich structure in which microstrip antenna is embedded and this is termed composite smart structure (CSS). The most important outstanding problem is that composite materials of structural function cannot be used without reducing antenna efficiency. Unfortunately, such materials have high electrical loss. This is a significant design problem that needs to be solved in practical applications. Therefore, the effect of composites facesheet on antenna performances is studied in the first stage. Changes in the gain of microstrip antenna due to composites facesheet have been determined. 'Open condition' is defined when gain is maximized and is a significant new concept in the design of high-gain antennas considering bandwidth in practical application. The open condition can be made with any thickness of outer facesheet by controlling its position. In the design of CSS, glass/epoxy composites and Nomex honeycomb were used with exploiting open condition. Experiments, confirm that the gain is improved (over 11 dBi) and the bandwidth is also as wide as specified in our requirements (over 10% at 12.2 GHz). With the open condition, wideband antenna can be integrated with mechanical structures without reducing any electrical performances, as confirmed experimentally here.