• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전기설비전문위원
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• pp.117-120
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• 2004

The UWB UHF coupler for GIS PD detection needs a balun (balance to unbalance transformer) to show its inherent UWB characteristics. In order to reduce the size of the balun and to make it practical in the conventional GIS, a novel tapered coaxial balun with a dielectric was proposed for the UWB UHF coupler. The performance of the proposed balun was verified through a series of simulations, measurement and experiments. As results, both the conventional balun and the proposed balun of which length is one third of that of the conventional one showed good S11 characteristics, whereas the efficiency of the proposed balun increased as much as about 30% in comparison with the conventional one.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1206-1211
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 한 파장 길이의 이중 모드 링형 공진기를 이용하여 대역 통과 여파기와 발룬의 특성을 동시에 만족하는 Balun-BPF를 제안하였다. 링 공진기의 대칭되는 위치에 각 출력단을 위치시킴으로써 불평형 위상 특성을 얻었고, 입출력단 선로간의 임피던스 차를 통해 이중 모드를 형성하였다. 제작된 Balun-BPF는 중심 주파수 2.45 GHz에서 40 MHz 대역폭과 삽입 손실 2.4 dB를 가지며, $181^{\circ}{\sim}184^{\circ}$의 불평형 위상과 1 dB 이내의 불평형 출력차를 나타내었다. 측정된 주파수 특성 결과는 시뮬레이션 결과와 잘 일치하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2008

A novel compact model for a five-port transformer balun is proposed for the efficient circuit design of hybrid balun. Compared to the conventional model, the proposed model provides much faster computation time and more reasonable values for the extracted parameters. The hybrid balun, realized in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS, achieves 2.8 dB higher gain and 1.9 dB lower noise figure than its passive counterpart only at a current consumption of 0.67 mA from 1.2 V supply. By employing the hybrid balun, a differential zero-IF receiver is designed in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS for IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee applications. It is composed of a differential cascode LNA, passive mixers, and active RC filters. Comparative investigations on the three receiver designs, each employing the hybrid balun, a simple transformer balun, and an ideal balun, clearly demonstrate the advantages of the hybrid balun in fully differential CMOS RF receivers. The simulated results of the receiver with the hybrid balun show 33 dB of conversion gain, 4.2 dB of noise figure with 20 kHz of 1/f noise corner frequency, and -17.5 dBm of IIP3 at a current consumption of 5 mA from 1.8 V supply.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.1208-1213
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 슬롯을 가진 마이크로스트립 사각 패치 형태의 balun-BPF를 제안한다. 기존의 balun-BPF는 대역폭이 좁고 손실이 다소 큰 단점을 가지고 있다. 이런 점을 개선하기 위해 사각 패치 평면에 수직으로 교차하는 슬롯을 넣고 한 모서리에 perturbation을 준 구조를 제시한다. 이러한 구조는 패치의 공간을 최대로 활용하기 때문에 손실을 줄일 수 있고 또한, 슬롯의 길이를 변화시킴으로써 주파수를 조절하고 대역폭을 넓힐 수 있다. 시험 제작된 balun-BPF는 2.4 GHz 대역에서 300 MHz(12.7 %)의 넓은 대역폭과 0.56 dB의 낮은 삽입 손실을 가지며, 두 출력 포트 간에 $184^{\circ}{\pm}15^{\circ}$ 이내의 위상차와 1 dB 이내의 출력차를 나타낸다.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.35-38
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• 2005

In this paper, a wideband balun of tapered structure using planar microstrip is desigde ad analyzed. The balun structure was fabricated on a Teflon substrate with a thickness of 0.8mm and relative dielectric constant ${\varepsilon}_r$ of 2.5. Two back-to back CPW-to-CPS transitions were simulated and optimized using HFSS. A movel plaar balun using tapered structure of microstip to CPW is suggested and designed. The measurement result, the bandwidth for a reflection coefficient better than -10dB of the balun is 2GHz to 8GHz. The planar balun can improved the performance of wide band spiral antenna.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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• pp.423-426
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• 2007

An active Balun is designed for RFID reader at 2.45GHz. The Balun is integrated inside the receiver, then the LNA and mixer can be connected. The unbalanced LNA output signal is transformed to a balanced signal at the input mixer The RF mixer and LO mixer, by using this balun. The Balun provided a balanced signal with two output stage, gain mismatch is 0.116dB. The phase show a good behavior with $163.918^{\circ}$,$-16.609^{\circ}$. The phase mismatch is about $0.527^{\circ}$. The tight difference between the gain and phase on each brancd, is because of the used capacitor and integrated inductor and the other parasitic element inside the balun.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.217-222
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• 2006

A distributed balun such as Marchand balun typically shows good phase and amplitude balances, but its size is somewhat large especially in lower frequency band. In contrast, a lumped balun has compact size but its performance is not good compared with that of a distributed one. In this paper the distributed-coupled line can be reduced effectively by using the lumped-distributed implementation. Designed balun has two coupled line of each ${\lambda}/72$ and shows magnitude balance of 0.05 dB, phase balance of $0.7^{\circ}$ in passband. Balanced-type filter is designed using balun and it has insertion loss of 8 dB, return loss of 7 dB, magnitude balance of 0.2 dB, and phase balance of $1.2^{\circ}$ in passband.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1502-1503
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• 2007

In this paper, inductive coupled LC balun has been desi gned and simulated for embedding into an organic packaging substrate. Inductive coupling method was applied to obtain wide band characteristics, and high dielectric film was utilized to reduce a size of the balun. The proposed balun has a novel scheme which consists of three embedded LC resonators with inductive coupling. This proposed balun has relatively small inductance and capacitance values which can be easily embedded into the organic packaging substrate. Furthermore, it has a good phase imbalance characteristic. The simulated results of proposed balun are an insertion loss of 1.2 dB, a return loss of 10 dB, a phase imbalance of 1 degree at frequency bandwidth of 750 MHz ranged from 1.8 GHz to 2.55 GHz, respectively. This balun has an area of $2mm{\tims}3.5mm{\times}0.66mm$ (height).

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.147-152
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• 2013

A novel balun being the structure of a Wilkinson power divider is suggested and fabricated. One of the power dividing paths in the suggested balun uses a conventional ${\lambda}/4$ transmission line for $-90^{\circ}$ phase shifting, and the other path uses a composite right/left-handed -${\lambda}/4$ transmission line for $+90^{\circ}$ phase shifting with four series capacitors and three parallel inductors. In addition, the suggested balun uses two $50-{\Omega}$ resistors and a conventional $50-{\Omega}$ transmission line of ${\lambda}/2$ electrical length between the two output ports, achieving good isolation and reflection values of two balanced ports. The suggested balun is simulated by the advanced design system simulation program and fabricated on TLX-9 20-mil substrate. The fabricated balun has a very good values of $S_{11}$ = -27.46 dB, $S_{21}$ = -3.40 dB, and $S_{31}$ = -3.28 dB, a phase difference of $-179.5^{\circ}$, a magnitude difference of 0.12 dB, and a delay difference of 0.1 ns, with $S_{22}$ = -36.28 dB, $S_{33}$ = -27.19 dB, and $S_{32}$ = -25.2 dB at 1 GHz, respectively.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.238-240
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• 2017

동축 선로를 이용한 발룬은 쉬운 제작, 높은 동작 전력, 안정적인 동작으로 초고주파 회로에서 자주 이용된다. 하지만, 동축 선로 발룬은 동축 선로와 기판에 존재하는 마이크로스트립 선로와의 연결할 때에 발생하는 기생 리액턴스 성분과 동축 선로 자체가 가지는 인덕턴스와 케패시턴스 성분에 의해 정확한 발룬 동작 특성을 예상하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 역위상 특성을 가지는 동축 선로 발룬 두 출력 단자에서의 위상 특성을 측정하였다. 이를 바탕으로 보다 개선된 동축 선로 발룬 제작 가능성에 대해 살펴보려 한다.