• Composites Research
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.230-240
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• 2023

The deployable reflector antenna consists of 24 unit main reflectors, and is mounted on a launch vehicle in a folded state. This satellite reaches the operating orbit and the antenna of satellite is deployed, and performs a mission. The deployable reflector antenna has the advantage of reduce the storage volume of payload of launch vehicle, allowing large space structures to be mounted in the limited storage space of the launch vehicle. In this paper, structural analysis was performed on the main reflector constituting the deployable reflector antenna, and through this, the initial conceptual design was performed. Lightweight composite main reflector was designed by applying a carbon fiber composite and honeycomb core. The laminate pattern and shape were selected as design variables and a design that satisfies the operation conditions was derived. Then, the performance of the lightweight composite reflector antenna was analyzed by performing detailed structural analysis on modal analysis, quasi-static, thermal gradient, and dynamic behavior.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.72-76
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• 2008

In this paper, the several printed square loop antennas which modified monopole antennas are proposed. The proposed antennas are reduced about 20% physical size of antenna and miniaturized reactance value of impedance due to fold center part of the loop. They obtained omni-directional radiation patterns with broad bandwidth and feed method used coplanar waveguide to composed single planar. The proposed antenna bandwidth is about 900MHz($2.63{\sim}3.56GHz]$) resonance frequency on $VSWR{\le}2$. it can be sufficiency of S-DMB band.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.107-116
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• 2001

In this thesis, characteristics of compact PIFA are analyzed for operation in dual frequencies (dual-PIFA) as variety of parameters. The antenna is composed of two patches. These are operated in high frequency and low frequency. The dimension of experiential antenna is fixed for attaching at the handset. The variable parameters are dimension of small patch, length of shorting strip and dimension of folded conductor plate, the frequencies are 900 MHz and 1800 MHz. The compact antenna is implemented with 2-layer type, electric field intensities and radiation patterns are simulated. In order to analyze characteristics of a performance as variety of parameters, FDTD method is used.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.12
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• pp.1007-1012
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• 2017

In this study, we performed the deployment test of shape memory polymer specimens for space antenna design. Poly(cyclootene) was cross-linked by dicumyl peroxide to make a PCO shape memory polymer. A miniature specimen with 120 mm diameter for a deployable antenna was fabricated with the PCO shape memory polymer. To investigate the deployment performance, the folded specimen as a temporary shape was heated by two heaters to the $15^{\circ}C$ higher temperature than the glass transition temperature of shape memory polymer. Firstly, the specimen was installed horizontally and tested. The deploying motion was captured by a digital camera and analyzed by a Tracker program. To reduce the effects of gravity, the specimen was installed vertically and tested again. The deployment performance of a shape memory polymer was investigated by comparing the results of horizontal and vertical installation tests.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.1445-1454
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• 2008

In this paper, small UWB antenna with band-stop function for mobile handsets is proposed. A gap between radiator and under and side ground is adjusted for small size and broadband. A radiator is folded to the back side of PCB for miniaturization and tapered feeding structure is used to enhance matching characteristic. A antenna clearance has a size of $14{\times}14\;mm^2$ and a size of radiator is $10{\times}7\;mm^2$. It covers all UWB band from 3.15 GHz to 4.75 GHz and from 7.2 GHz to 10.2 GHz for VSWR<2 and has band stop characteristic at 5.8 GHz. A maximum gain is measured as 5.85 GHz. In case conventional handset case is considered, it also covers all UWB and a maximum gain is measured from -2 dBi to -2 dBi.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1638-1639
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 초소형 무선 USB 동글 장치를 위한 광대역 접힌(folded) 모노폴 안테나를 제안하였다. 제안된 안테나는 CPW 급전으로부터 삼지창 형상의 선로를 적용하여 광대역 특성을 구현하였다. 최종 설계된 안테나의 크기는 $16{\times}44.8{\times}3.5\;mm^3$이며, low-profile의 무선 USB 동글용 안테나에 적합하다. 제안된 안테나는 $S_{11}$ < -10 dB 기준으로 2.28~10.8 GHz의 공진 주파수 대역을 가지므로 WiBro (2.3~2.4 GHz), Bluetooth (2.4~2.484 GHz), WiMAX (2.5~2.7 GHz, 3.4~3.6 GHz), satellite DMB (2.605~2.655 GHz), 802.11b/g/a WLAN (2.4~2.485 GHz, 5.15~5.825 GHz), UWB(3.1~10.6 GHz)의 무선 대역을 지원 할 수 있다. 측정된 평균 이득의 범위는 -3.41 dBi 에서 -0.84 dBi 이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.511-514
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• 2003

In this paper, describes the design of PIFA for PDA which has parasitic patch to expand the impedance bandwidth and miniaturization technique to consider the radiation pattern. To expand the impedance bandwidth, generated resonant frequency of parasitic patch is different from that of main patch. To miniaturize the physical dimension, using the folded edge and rectangular slot. The obtained impedance bandwidth is 9.4% ($2.29GHz{\sim}2.515GHz$) at VSWR${\leqq}$2 and antenna gain is 2dBi within the operating frequency.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.233-240
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• 2019

In this paper, due to the development of 5G communication technology, an antenna capable of covering both LTE and 5G bands is currently needed. In addition, we designed and manufactured a single feed antenna for the integrated public network (LTE) and 5G frequency dual band cover to satisfy the frequency bandwidth of more than 10% in each band. The antenna designed by adopting the dipole of the basic dipole antenna in a planar structure is a form in which the radiating element is vertically extended at all of the 700 MHz antennas and folded into a 'ㄷ' shape. In addition, the radiating element of the 700MHz band serves as a reflector of the 3.5GHz band radiating element. As a result, the 700 MHz band -10 dB bandwidth 104 MHz(14.8%) and 3.5 GHz band -10 dB bandwidth 660 MHz(18.8%) were obtained and the radiation pattern characteristic resulted in gains of 8.46 dBi, beam width E-plane 55°, H-plane 81° and 3.5 GHz bands 6.14 dBi, beamwidth E-plane 79°, H-Plane 49°.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.907-915
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• 2002

In this paper, a compact digital phase shifter to be used an active phased array antenna system for satellite communications was proposed. The even and odd mode analysis for a given reflection-type phase shifter, which uses a folded hybrid coupler as a base element, was performed and the design parameters were derived. Also, to verify experimentally the electrical performances of the proposed structure, X-band 4-bit digital phase shifter was designed and fabricated using Teflon soft substrate $({\varepsilon}_r; =\;2.17)$. Its circuit size was less than 3.5 cm $\times$ 3.0 cm, and it exhibited at least 50 % size reduction as compared with the conventional unfolded configuration. The experimental results of the fabricated phase shifter showed that the average insertion loss and insertion loss variation were less than 3.5 dB, $\pm$ 0.6 dB within the operating band, 7.9 ~ 8.4 GHz, respectively. And, input and output return loss were more than 10 dB, respectively. Also, the phase response of the phase shifter showed 4-bit operation with $\pm$3$^{\circ}$ rms phase error.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.63-72
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• 2022

The purpose of this paper was to understand the dynamics of deployment of large mesh antennas, and to provide a numerical method for determining the dynamic stiffness and the driving forces for the design. The deployment structure was numerically modeled using the frame elements. The eigenvalue analysis was demonstrated, with respect to the folded and unfolded configurations of the antenna. A multibody dynamic model was formulated with Kane's equation, and simulated using the pseudo upper triangular decomposition (PUTD) method for resolving the constrained problem. Based on the multibody model, the kinetics of the deployment, the motor driving forces, and the feasibility of the designed deployment structure were investigated.