• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.334-341
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• 2003

When the pressure tubes(f are in contact with the calandria tube(CT) in the pressurized heavy water reactor(PHWR), the temperature difference between inner and outer wall of W results in a thermal diffusion of hydrogen (deuterium) and hydride blisters are formed on the outer surface of PT. Because the hydride blisters and zirconium matrix are acoustically continuous, it is not easy to distinguish the blisters from the matrix with conventional ultrasonic method. An ultrasonic velocity ratio method was developed to detect small hydride blisters on the zirconium pressure tube. Hydride blisters were grown in the PT specimen using a steady state thermal diffusion device. The flight times of longitudinal echo and reflected shear echo from the outer surface were measured accurately. The velocity ratio of the longitudinal wave to the shear wave was calculated and displayed using contour plot. Compared to the conventional flight time method of longitudinal wave, the velocity ratio method shows superior sensitivity to detect smaller blisters as well as better images for the blister shapes. Detectable limit of the outer shape of the hydride blisters was conservatively estimated as $500{\mu}m$, with the same specifications of ultrasonic transducer used in the actual PHWR pressure tube inspection.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.7B
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• pp.1006-1012
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 다른 클럭원들을 갖는 서로 다른 오실레이터에 의해 발생된 비동기 클럭을 입력으로 받아 동기신호로 변환시키는 기능과 그 중 어느 한 클럭이 동작하지 않더라도 동작하는 클럭을 계속 유지하여 클럭 중단의 위험을 제거한 안전모드를 추가한 기능의 구현을 기술한다. 특히, 통신 분야에서 ASIC으로 Chip을 개발할 때 다중 클럭의 사용은 필연적이며 비동기 신호를 동기신호로 변환하는 기능의 구현은 기본적이면서도 중요한 부분이다. 이 회로는 VHDL로 구현이 되었으며 다중 클럭 관련 ASIC 구현에 기본적으로 응용이 가능하다.

• KIPE Magazine
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.42-48
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• 2011

전기철도차량은 차량의 운행에 필요한 전력 및 동력을 공급하기 위한 대용량 추진제어 컨버터/인버터, 소용량 스위칭모드 전원장치와 같은 전력변환장치와 견인전동기에 이르기까지 다양한 설비를 갖추고 있다. 전기철도차량의 성능평가는 전력변환장치와 견인전동기를 포함한 추진장치의 성능평가라 할 수 있을 정도로 많은 비중을 차지하고 있다. 한국철도기술연구원은 국토해양부로부터 지정받은 성능시험기관으로써 국내 다양한 철도차량의 성능평가를 수행하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 철도차량의 성능시험기준을 근간으로 철도차량용 추진제어 인버터와 견인전동기의 성능 시험평가에 대한 방법 및 다양한 성능 시험평가 사례에 대하여 소개하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.247-252
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• 2001

The paper deals with a theoretical study on the redial vibration of cylindrical piezoelectric transducers The differential equations of piezoelectric radial motion have been derived in terms of the radial displacement and electrical potential. Applying mechanical and electrical boundary conditions has yielded the characteristic equations of natural vibration. Numerical resutls of the fundamental natural frequency have been compared with experimental observations for the transducers of several sizes, and have shown a good agreement.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.612-617
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• 2000

The vibrational characteristics of Langevin-type piezoelectric torsional transducers have been studied theoretically and experimentally in this paper. The differential equations of piezoelectric torsional motion have been derived in terms of the circumferential displacement and the electric potential. Solutions of the boundary-value problem have yielded the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the transducers. The theoretical solutions have been verified by comparing the numerical results with experimental ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.1138-1143
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• 2001

The paper deals with a theoretical study on the radial vibration of cylindrical piezoelectric transducers. The differential equations of piezoelectric radial motion have been derived in terms of the radial displacement and electrical potential. Applying mechanical and electrical boundary conditions has yielded the characteristic equations of natural vibration. Numerical results of the fundamental natural frequency have been compared with experimental observations for the transducers of several sizes, and have shown a good agreement.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.48-53
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• 2009

The CMOS RF front-end for Global Positioning System(GPS)are implemented in 1P8M CMOS $0.13{\mu}m$ process. The LNAs consist of LNA1 with high gain and low NF, and LNA2 with low gain and high IIP3 for supporting operation with active and passive antenna. the measured performances of both LNAs are 16.4/13.8 dB gain, 1.4/1.68 dB NF, and -8/-4.4 dBm IIP3 with 3.2/2 mA form 1.2 V supply, respectively. The quadrature downconversion mixer is followed by transimpedance amplifier with gain controllability from 27.5 to 41 dB. The front-end performances in LNA1 mode are 39.8 dB conversion gain, 2.2 dB NF, and -33.4 dBm IIP3 with 6.6 mW power consumption.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.45-49
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• 2009

In this paper, a direct down conversion LNA/Mixer has been designed and tested for 900Mhz UHF RFID application. The designed circuit has been implemented in 0.18um CMOS technology with 3.3V operation. In this work, a common gate input architecture has been used to cope with the higher input self jamming level. This LNA/Mixer is designed to support two operating modes of high gain mode and low gain mode according to the input jamming levels. The measured results show that the input referred P1dBs are 4dBm of high gain mode and 11dBm of low gain mode, and the conversion gains are 12dB and 3dB in high and low gain mode respectively The power consumptions are 60mW for high gain mode and 79mW for low gain mode. The noise figures are 16dB and 20dB in high gain mode and low gain mode respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.234-240
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• 1997

We studied the resolution enhancement of a novel scanning laser acoustic microscope (SLAM) using transverse waves. Mode conversion of the ultrasonic wave takes place at the liquid-solid interface and some energy of the insonifying longitudinal waves in the water will convert to transverse wave energy within the solid specimen. The resolution of SLAM depends on the size of detecting laser spot and the wavelength of the insonifying ultrasonic waves. Science the wavelength of the transverse wave is shorter than that of the longitudinal wave, we are able to achieve the high resolution by using transverse waves. In order to operate SLAM in the transverse wave mode, we made wedge for changing the incident angle. Our experimental results with model 2140 SLAM and an aluminum specimen showed higher contrast of the SLAM image in the transverse wave mode than that in the longitudinal wave mode.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8C
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• pp.790-800
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• 2009

For the improvement of coding efficiency, the H.264/AYC standard uses new coding tools such as 1/4-pel-accurate motion estimation, multiple references, intra prediction, loop filter, variable block size etc. Using these coding tools, H.264/AYC has achieved significant improvements from rate-distortion point of view compared to existing standards. However, the encoder complexity was greatly increased due to these coding tools. We focus on the complexity reduction method of intra macroblock mode selection. The proposed algorithm for fast intra mode selection calculates the edge activity in transform domain, and performs fast encoding of intra frame in H.264/AYC through the fast prediction mode selection of intra4x4 and chrominance blocks. Simulation results show that the proposed method saves about 59.76% for QCIF sequences and 65.03% for CIF sequences of total encoding time, while bitrate increase and PSNR decrease are very small.