• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.583-591
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• 2012

In this paper, using a folded parasitic patch, a hybrid metamaterial antenna having the enhanced bandwidth is presented. To obtain a broad bandwidth of the antenna, a zeroth-order resonance(ZOR) mode of a mushroom antenna and a $TM_{010}$ mode of a conventional patch antenna are combined. By employing an etched rectangular hole and a folded parasitic patch in the conventional patch antenna, a resonance frequency of the $TM_{010}$ mode can be down-shifted toward that of the ZOR mode without changing the size of the antenna. Therefore, the proposed antenna has broad bandwidth which ranges from the ZOR mode to the $TM_{010}$ mode. As a result, a fractional bandwidth of the proposed antenna is measured as 12 % and a radiation efficiency is above 75 % in whole band.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.7
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• pp.28-34
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• 2011

Radiation characteristics of a dual-mode inductor loaded patch antenna using zeroth order resonance and half wavelength resonance are investigated. The isolation between two radiation patterns from the two different modes is improved by increasing the forward radiation and decreasing the horizontal radiation of half wavelength resonance mode. The frequency difference between the two resonant frequencies increases as the dielectric constant of the antenna substrate decreases and the operating frequency increases.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.314-319
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• 2012

In this paper, a repeater antenna operating at MICS and ISM bands is proposed and the antenna performance including the human body effect is investigated. The proposed antenna is composed of a ZOR(Zeroth Order Resonator) and a loop antenna. A loop antenna is operated at ISM band and a loop antenna capacitively coupled with a ZOR acts as an antenna for MICS band. Simulation was carried out in order to analyze the effects of human body on antenna performance when a human body is located in the near field of an antenna. According to the simulated and measured results, the proposed antenna has -10 dB $S_{11}$ bandwidth wide enough to cover both MICS and ISM bands. The measured peak gains are -28.53 dBi and 3.85 dBi at MICS and ISM band, respectively. The dual band and radiation properties of the proposed antenna are well suited for the WBAN repeater system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.8
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• pp.8-14
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• 2008

In this paper, the effects of ground size on the characteristics such as input resistance, fractional bandwidth, and radiation efficiency of epsilon negative (ENG) zeroth order resonance (ZOR) antennas were investigated theoratically. Two types of ENG ZOR antennas were studied: mushroom ENG ZOR antenna with via and via-free defected ground structure (DGS) ENG ZOR antenna. It was confirmed that the ground size had more effects on the characteristics of a Via-free ZOR antenna than those of mushroom ZOR antenna with via. The via-free antenna could radiate properly with the required size of ground plane since the size of ground plane should exceed some critical value for DGS to suitably operate. As a height of substrate of mushroom ZOR antenna with via increased, the fractional bandwidth and radiation efficiency were improved. On the other hand, as a height of via-free ZOR antenna increased, the fractional bandwidth and radiation efficiency were degraded. Finally, a via-free ZOR antenna had an advantage of compactness even though its fractional bandwidth is narrow and its radiation efficiency is poor, compared with thoses of mushroom ZOR antenna with via.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.54-63
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• 2023

In this paper, a VHF band conformal antenna for UAV mounting was developed. The proposed antenna was designed as an shape-adaptive structure by minimizing the antenna height to be advantageous in RCS reduction performance. As for the antenna radiator, the outer radiator was arranged around the inner radiator to apply the CRLH zeroth-order resonance structure. With this structure, the height of the antenna was minimized, and it was reduced by about 70 % compared to the existing blade antenna. In addition, for impedance matching, the intermediate frequency bandwidth of the VHF band was improved through the sleeve pin of the inner radiator, and the low frequency bandwidth of the VHF band was improved by applying an EMI shielding gasket to the shorting pin of the outer radiator. The proposed antenna was manufactured and measured to verify the performance of the device and the performance after UAV mounting. As a result, the standard was satisfied for the operating frequency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.143-151
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• 2010

In this paper, a novel rectangular patch antenna is proposed to have Zeroth Order Resonance(ZOR) generated based on the Metamaterial Complosite Right- and Left-Handed(CRLH) structure. Making the in-phase electric field over the entire antenna other than a half-wavelength as the fundamental resonance mode of a standard microstrip patch or its positive multiple, the metallic patch is suggested to be capacitively coupled with only one surrounding rectangular ring, different from the previous 1D ZOR antennas commonly having several metal cells in line. The performance of the proposed antenna is simulated by a 3D field solver that inputs the sizes of the physical structure corresponding to the equivalent circuit designed to have ZOR at 2.4 GHz. Consequently, the resonance frequency, the gain and the antenna efficiency are observed 2.4 GHz, 5 dB and 98%, respectively. Besides, the important property of the proposed antenna is addressed as the combination of the low profile as an advantage of microstrip patch antennas, and the omni-directional field pattern typical of monopole antennas.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.94-100
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• 2017

In this paper, we suggest a design method of a metamaterial-based low-profile antenna working at 425 MHz for LEO/Cube satellites. Satellites play an important role in linking th remote nodes in a wireless communication network and covering wide areas of the globe. Especially, an increasing number of universities or individuals aspire having their own satellites and build low-budget structures such as cube satellites in LEO and the ways to reduce the sizes of their satellites. Since the antenna occupies a major portion of the satellite surface, the antenna should be miniaturized for lighter weight. The proposed metamaterial low-profile antenna, unlike the conventional patch antenna, produces such a zeroth-order resonance to create an omnidirectional radiation pattern. Also, it is connected to a UHF waveguide bandpass filter as the feeding system to examine the possible change in the situation that the antenna is combined with the system. The performances of the monopole and proposed metamaterial antennas are compared to one another.