• 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.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.38-43
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• 2013

We derive the Z-parameters for the two coupled antennas used for wireless power transfer under the assumption that the antennas are canonical minimum scattering antennas. Using the Z-parameter and the maximum power transfer efficiency formula, we determine the maximum power transfer efficiency of wireless power transfer systems. The results showed that the maximum power transfer efficiency increases as the mode number or the radiation efficiency increases. To verify the theory, we fabricate and measure two different power transfer systems: one comprises two antennas generating $TM_{01}$ mode; the other comprises two antennas generating $TM_{02}$ mode. When the distance between the centers of the antennas was 30 cm, the maximum power transfer efficiency of the antennas generating the $TM_{02}$ mode increased by 62 % compared to that of the antennas generating the $TM_{01}$ mode.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.40-48
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 NEC 코드와 Pareto 유전자 알고리즘 최적화 기법을 이용하여 초소형 유도결합 안테나를 설계하였다. 최적화된 유도결합 안테나 중 몇 가지 표본을 제작하고 성능을 측정하였다. 일반적으로 안테나의 크기가 작아질수록 입력 저항, 대역폭 및 효율이 감소하는데 비하여 제안된 방법으로 설계된 유도결합 안테나는 다른 부가적인 정합회로 없이 우수한 성능을 보인다. 간단한 회로 모델을 도입하여 제안된 유도결합 안테나의 동작원리를 설명하였고, Duroid 기판 위에 평면 구조로 제작하여 RFID 태그 안테나로써 성능을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.204-209
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• 2008

The power strength of electric wave of reader looked radiation forms from the gate type RFID system. The more distant from antennas, the weaker of power strength of electric wave. The power strength of electric wave with 3 antennas showed stronger than its with 2 antennas. With 2 antennas, the coefficient of correlation between the power strength of electric wave and response ability of tag was 0.665 (p=0.009), and it showed results at significance level. With 3 antennas, the coefficient of correlation was 0.711 (p=0.004), correlationship between the power strength of electric wave and the response ability of tag showed at significance high level. From the analysis result about tag reading performance on the gate type RFID system, the reading rate was good when tags were attached on a acrylic plate which were located in front of 3 or 4 antennas. As tags were getting away from antennas, the reading rate was decreased. The nearer from antennas, the higher the reading rate at the center. When tags were turned at right angles with antennas, the longer distant from antennas, the lower reading rates at the center, right and left locations. When the number of antennas and distance are constant, respectively, the significant difference of the tag reading rates according to the locations of left, right and center were not found.

• 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.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.832-837
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• 2006

Antennas were fabricated by physical(adhesive) and chemical(deposition+plating) method on organic-inorganic composite material. And antennas were measured dielectric constant and gain. Dielectric constant of antennas were fabricated by physical method was decreased with increase of adhesive tape thickness and number of conduction material composition. But antennas were fabricated by chemical method was reached to 90 % of dielectric material. Gain of antennas were fabricated by physical method was decreased with increase of adhesive tape thickness. But they were unrelated with conduction material composition. The other side antennas were fabricated by chemical method excelled more 0.8 dBic than antennas were fabricated by physical method in gain of antenna. Finally, chemical method can expect excellent product process because it can produce smaller size, higher gain and elimination of many handworks.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.282-287
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• 2003

″H″ type resonator has the advantage for the miniaturization of high-T7 superconducting (HTS) microstrip antenna in comparison with the conventional microstrip antenna such as rectangular type or circular type. In this paper we designed miniaturized HTS antennas using this "H"-type resonator and reported the characteristics of our antennas including return loss, bandwidth, radiation patterns, efficiency and so on. To fabricate the "H" type antenna, HTS YBa$_2$Cu$_3$$O_{7-x}$ (YBCO) thin films were deposited on MgO substrates using rf-magnetron sputtering. For comparison between normal conducting antennas and superconducting antennas, the gold antennas with the same dimension were also fabricated. An aperture coupling was used for impedance matching between 50 $\Omega$ feed line and HTS radiating patch. The ″H" type superconducting antenna showed the performance of 1.38 in SWR, 26 % in efficiency, and 13.8 dB in the return loss superior to the normal conducting counterpart.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.770-775
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• 2004

Although $High-T_c $superconducting HTS antennas have high efficiency and high gain, narrow bandwidth due to the high Q is the major limitation for application of satellite communication and mobile communication. Defining bandwidth as the frequency range over which standing wave ratio (SWR) is 2:1 or less, HTS antenna bandwidths are typically less than 1 %. Thus considerable effort has been focused on developing HTS antennas for broadband operation. In this work the HTS antenna array, using the bipin antenna which consisted of two triangle-radiation patches, was designed and fabricated using a ${YBa}_2{Cu}_3{O}_7x (YBCO)$ superconducting thin film on a MgO substrate for broadband operation. Also gold antennas with the same dimension as our HTS antennas were fabricated on the MgO substrate for the comparison. Experimental results for both antennas were reported in terms of radiation patterns, return losses, bandwidths and other various characteristics. The center frequency of HTS antennas was 20.28 GHz and the bandwidth obtained was significant 10 %.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권5호
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• pp.436-442
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 두 개 이상의 안테나를 사용하는 소스 노드, 두 개의 안테나를 사용하는 릴레이 노드, 두 개의 안테나를 사용하는 목적지 노드로 구성된 특별한 경우의 half-duplex (HD) dynamic decode and forward (DDF) 릴레이 프로토콜에 대한 diversity multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) 함수를 유도하였다. 본 논문에서 유도한 프로토콜의 DMT 함수를 동일한 안테나 개수를 사용하는 노드들로 구성된 HD NAF 프로토콜에 대한 DMT 함수와 비교하였으며, 더불어 두 개의 안테나를 사용하는 소스 노드, 두 개 이상의 안테나를 사용하는 릴레이 노드, 두 개의 안테나를 사용하는 목적지 노드로 구성된 HD DDF 릴레이 프로토콜에 대한 DMT 함수와 비교하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 다중 송/수신안테나를 가지는 시공간 블록 부호를 ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) 지상파 방송 시스템에 적용하는 방법을 다루며, 특히, 2개의 송신 안테나와 다수의 수신안테나를 가지는 Alamouti의 구조를 ATSC 방송 시스템에 적용해 본다. 또한, 다중 수신안테나를 가지는 다이버시티 기법과 다중 송/수신안테나를 가지는 시공간 블록 부호의 구조를 비교해 본다. 전산 실험에 의하면. 다중 송/수신안테나를 가지는 ATSC 방송 시스템은 단일 송/수신안테나를 가지는 방송 시스템보다 Rayleigh 페이딩 채널 환경에서 매우 우수한 성능을 가진다.