• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.569-578
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of monolithically matching circuits, interface circuits, and RF core circuits to the same substrate. We designed and fabricated on-chip 1 to 6 GHz up-conversion and 1 to 8 GHz down-conversion mixers using a 0.8 mm SiGe hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT) process technology. To fabricate a SiGe HBT, we used a reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) system to grow a base epitaxial layer, and we adopted local oxidation of silicon (LOCOS) isolation to separate the device terminals. An up-conversion mixer was implemented on-chip using an intermediate frequency (IF) matching circuit, local oscillator (LO)/radio frequency (RF) wideband matching circuits, LO/IF input balun circuits, and an RF output balun circuit. The measured results of the fabricated up-conversion mixer show a positive power conversion gain from 1 to 6 GHz and a bandwidth of about 4.5 GHz. Also, the down-conversion mixer was implemented on-chip using LO/RF wideband matching circuits, LO/RF input balun circuits, and an IF output balun circuit. The measured results of the fabricated down-conversion mixer show a positive power conversion gain from 1 to 8 GHz and a bandwidth of about 4.5 GHz.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권10호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2008

본 논문은 6GHz에서 18GHz까지 동작하는 광대역 RF (송수신) 회로 시스템에 적용하기 위한 가변 선형 이득 등화기를 PIN 다이오드를 이용하여 설계하고 Thin Film 공정을 이용하여 $Al_2O_3$ (알루미나)기판에 제작하였다. 개발된 가변 선형 이득 등화기는 T형으로 동작 대역 내에서 $-7dB{\sim}-13dB$의 가변 기울기를 갖는다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.187-194
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• 2015

Accurate relative location estimation is a key requirement in indoor localization systems based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, although these systems have applied not only various optimization algorithms but also fusion with sensors to achieve high accuracy in position determination, they are difficult to provide accurate relative azimuth and locations to users because of cumulative errors in inertial sensors with time and the influence of external magnetic fields. This paper based on ultra-wideband positioning system, which is relatively suitable for indoor localization compared to other wireless communications, presents an indoor localization system for estimating relative azimuth and location of location-unaware nodes, referred to as target nodes without applying any algorithms with complex variable and constraints to achieve high accuracy. In the proposed method, the target nodes comprising three mobile nodes estimate the relative distance and azimuth from two reference nodes that can be installed by users. In addition, in the process of estimating the relative localization information acquired from the reference nodes, positioning errors are minimized through a novel modified rounding estimation technique in which Kalman filter is applied without any time consumption algorithms. Experimental results show the feasibility and validity of the proposed system.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2007

Wimedia UWB(Ultra-Wideband) platform provides data rates up to 480Mbps in WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network). Wimedia conformant devices access to the channels through superframe concept for communications. As the channel resource is limited, the optimal channel time required for each device needs to be estimated to share the resource efficiently among the devices. In this paper, we propose a scheme to estimate the required channel time in a super frame to satisfy the QoS of the application on a device. The channel time is estimated from the service rate which is computed from the TSPEC of the application. In the process of the estimation, we take the frame overhead for data transmission as well as the overhead due to the acknowledgement scheme, preamble, and MDSU size into consideration. We also analyze and compare the throughputs for different acknowledgement scheme, preamble, and MDSU size situations. The estimated channel time required for a given service rate is allocated in the unit of MAS(Medium Access Slot).

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.252-257
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• 2016

An edge-located electromagnetic bandgap (EL-EBG) structure using a defected ground structure (DGS) is proposed to suppress resonant modes induced by edge excitation in a two-dimensional planar parallel plate waveguide (PPW). The proposed EL-DGS-EBG PPW significantly mitigates multiple transverse-magnetic (TM) modes in a wideband frequency range corresponding to an EBG stopband. To verify the wideband suppression, test vehicles of a conventional PPW, a PPW with a mushroom-type EBG structure, and an EL-DGS-EBG PPW are fabricated using a commercial process involving printed circuit boards (PCBs). Measurements of the input impedances show that multiple resonant modes of the previous PPWs are significantly excited through an input port located at a PPW edge. In contrast, resonant modes in the EL-DGS-EBG PPW are substantially suppressed over the frequency range of 0.5 GHz to 2 GHz. In addition, we have experimentally demonstrated that the EL-DGS-EBG PPW reduces the radiated emission from -24 dB to -44 dB as compared to the conventional PPW.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.911-918
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• 2013

본 논문에서에서는 방사저항이 낮고, 다중 공진을 갖는 초광대역 특성을 갖는 평판형 안테나를 FDTD법을 적용하여 그 특성을 분석하였다. 본 안테나를 FDTD 법을 사용하여 모델링하여 파의 전파 과정, 전계 분포를 시간영역에서 각각 계산하였고, FDTD 법으로 얻은 값들을 Fourier 변환하여 최적화된 슬롯 안테나의 전반사손실, 정재파비, 복사패턴을 주파수 영역에서 계산하였다. 실험 및 측정한 결과, 안테나의 최대 대역폭은 VSWR ${\leq}$ 2.0 에서 1.85~6.35GHz(중심주파수 4.5GHz)의 초광대역 특성을 보였다. 측정된 결과는 FDTD 결과와 비교적 잘 일치하였다. 본 안테나는 소형이고 경량이면서 초광대역 특성을 요구하는 UWB, 방송용 시스템에 적용이 가능하리라 판단된다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.638-643
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• 2013

This paper presents a 5-bit digital step attenuator (DSA) using a commercial 0.18-${\mu}m$ silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process for the wideband phased array antenna. Both low insertion loss and low root mean square (RMS) phase error and amplitude error are achieved employing two attenuation topologies of the switched path attenuator and the switched T-type attenuator. The attenuation coverage of 31 dB with a least significant bit of 1 dB is achieved at DC to 20 GHz. The RMS phase error and amplitude error are less than $2.5^{\circ}$ and less than 0.5 dB, respectively. The measured insertion loss of the reference state is less than 5.5 dB at 10 GHz. The input return loss and output return loss are each less than 12 dB at DC to 20 GHz. The current consumption is nearly zero with a voltage supply of 1.8 V. The chip size is $0.93mm{\times}0.68mm$, including pads. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a low phase error DC-to-20-GHz SOI DSA.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2015

The Korean Solar Radio Burst Locator (KSRBL) is a solar radio spectrograph observing the broad frequency range from 0.245 to 18 GHz with the capability of locating wideband gyrosynchrotron bursts. Due to the characteristics of a spiral feed, the beam center varies in a spiral pattern with frequency, making a modulation pattern over the wideband spectrum. After a calibration process, we obtained dynamic spectra consistent with the Nobeyama Radio Polarimeter (NoRP). We compared and analyzed the locations of bursts observed by KSRBL with results from the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). As a result, we found that the KSRBL provides the ability to locate flaring sources on the Sun within around 2'.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.70-76
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• 2019

UWB(Ultra-wideband)는 송신 안테나에서 UWB 대역을 송신한 신호를 수신 안테나를 통해 받은 신호를 가지고 목표물을 판단하는 고해상도 근거리 초광대역 레이더로 비접촉으로 사람의 호흡 및 심박을 감지할 수 있고, 환경에 영향을 받지 않아 최근 활용도가 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 UWB 레이더 신호를 이용하여 사람의 호흡과 심박수를 감지하는 알고리즘을 구현한다. 인체에서부터 반사되어 들어온 레이더 신호를 메디안 필터, 칼만 필터, 밴드 패스필터 등을 이용하여 처리한다. 또한 호흡수와 심박수를 추출하기 위하여 CZT를 이용한다. 비교하는 심박 데이터로는 ECG(Electrocardiogram)를 사용하였으며, 약 98% 이상 일치함을 확인하였다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1055-1063
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• 2013

저 잡음 증폭기는 RF 수신단의 필수적인 요소이며, 다양한 무선시스템에서 사용하기 위하여 넓은 주파수 범위에서 동작하도록 요구된다. 전압 이득, 반사 손실, 잡음 지수, 선형성과 같은 중요한 성능지표들을 신중히 다루어서, 제안하는 LNA의 주요한 성능으로 역할을 하게끔 한다. Buffer 단에서 peaking 인덕터를 사용하며 전체적으로 cascade 구조로써 inductive shunt feedback을 LNA 입력 단에 성공적으로 적용하였다. 광대역 정합 주파수를 얻기 위한 설계식은 상대적으로 간단한 회로구성을 통해 도출된다. 입력 임피던스의 주파수 응답 분석을 위하여 pole과 zero를 광대역 응답을 실현하기 위한 특성으로 기술하였다. 입력 단에 게이트와 드레인 사이의 인덕터는 출력의 3차 고조파를 감소시킴으로 선형성을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. 제안하는 회로를 $0.18{\mu}m$의 CMOS 공정으로 제작하였고, Pad를 포함한 광대역 LNA의 칩 면적은 $0.202mm^2$이다. 측정 결과는 1.5~13 GHz에서 입력손실은 -7 dB 이하이고, 전압 이득은 8 dB 이상이며, 잡음 지수는 6~9 dB 정도이다. 그리고 IIP3는 8 GHz에서 2.5 dBm이며, 1.8 V 전압에서 14 mA 전류를 소모한다.