• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.948-953
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• 2017

When using a high-power amplifier(HPA) for high-speed communication, the nonlinear characteristics of the HPA deteriorate power efficiency, bit error rate(BER) performance, and spectral efficiency. Because it is inevitable to use the HPA to obtain sufficient transmission power for high-speed communication, it is necessary to compensate for nonlinearity of the HPA by using a predistorter. In this study, a predistorter was used to compensate for the nonlinearity of the HPA, and the nonlinear distortion was compensated using the predistorter. Simulation results show that the compensation of the nonlinearity of the HPA using the predistorter achieves a BER performance similar to that of an ideal linear amplifier, and that the spectral mask is also satisfied.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.241-247
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• 2014

This study presents the ultrasonic nonlinearity of AISI316 austenitic stainless steels subjected to longterm isothermal aging. These steels are attractive materials for use in industrial mechanical structures because of their strength at high-temperatures and their chemical stability. The test materials were subjected to accelerated heat-treatment in an electrical furnace for a predetermined aging duration. The variations in the ultrasonic nonlinearity and microstructural damage were carefully evaluated through observation of the microstructure. The ultrasonic nonlinearity stiffly dropped after aging for up to 1000 h and, then, monotonously decreased. The polygonal shape of the initial grain structures changed to circular, especially as the annealing twins in the grains dissolved and disappeared. The delta ferrite on the grain boundaries could not be observed at 1000 h of aging, and these continuously transformed into their sigma phases. Consequently, in the intial aging period, the rapid decrease in the ultrasonic nonlinearity was caused by voids, dislocations, and twin annihilation. The continuous monotonic decrease in the ultrasonic nonlinearity after the first drop resulted from the generation of $Cr_{23}C_6$ precipitates and ${\sigma}$ phases.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.798-805
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• 2006

I evaluate the BER performance of downlink OFDMA systems in time variant Rayleigh Doppler fading channel, considering the carrier frequency offset and the nonlinear high power amplifier. I obtain the required output back-off of the nonlinear amplifier and value of frequency offset for good BER performance. And I also analyze the BER degradation upon Doppler fading channel.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.2391-2397
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• 2007

I evaluate the BER performance of uplink OFDMA systems in time variant Rayleigh Doppler fading channel, considering the carrier frequency offset and the nonlinear high power amplifier. I obtain the required output back-off of the nonlinear amplifier and value of frequency offset for good BER performance. And I also analyze the BER degradation upon Doppler fading channel.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.10
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• pp.1133-1137
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• 2014

The ultrasonic nonlinear parameter ${\beta}$ is generally known as an effective parameter for evaluating material degradation. Thus far, most research has been conducted using a contact method. However, since measurement by this contact method is affected by the contact conditions between the transducer and the specimen, additional devices are required to maintain the contact conditions stable during the measurement. To avoid this inconvenience, this paper proposes a noncontact method. In this study, only the receiver was replaced with a noncontact receiver, and then, the ultrasonic nonlinear parameters measured by the newly developed noncontact receiver were compared with those measured by the contact receiver. Results obtained using both these receivers for heat-treated aluminum alloy specimens showed good agreement. From this result, we can confirm that the ultrasonic nonlinear parameter ${\beta}$ can be measured using the proposed noncontact ultrasonic method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07e
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• pp.2262-2264
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• 1999

절연체 내부의 보이드로 인하여 부분방전이 발생하면 국부 파괴와 완전절연파괴의 원인이 된다. 부분방전으로 생기는 트리잉은 절연재료를 열화시키며 부분방전 메카니즘 연구의 한 축을 이룬다. 이에 절연 파괴를 미연에 예측하고 감시하는 기술의 개발은 매우 중요하다. 이러한 관점에서, 부분방전의 메카니즘을 본래의 관점에서 비 선형적으로 해석할 수 있는 기법의 도입은 중요한 의미를 갖는다. 절연체의 부분방전을 시간 전개에 따라 해석함으로써 이후 실시간 감시 시스템 구축에 기초가 될 것이며 지금까지 수없이 시도 되어온 통계적인 방법과의 비교분석 및 데이터 베이스화에 따른 더욱 객관적이고 정확한 감지 결과가 기대된다. 부분방전 신호는 음향센서를 거쳐 개인용 컴퓨터에서 비선형적 해석기법과 통계적인 $\Phi$-q 기법을 적용하여 해석하였으며, 이 해석 결과는 다양한 해석 기준을 제공해 줄 것으로 기대된다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.88-95
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• 2015

This paper presents the study of the efficient localization algorithm for non-linear least square estimation. Although non-linear least square(NLS) estimation algorithms are more accurate algorithms than linear least square(LLS) estimation, NLS algorithms have more computation loads because of iterations. This study proposed the efficient algorithm which reduced complexity for small accuracy loss in NLS estimation. Simulation results show the accuracy and complexity of the localization system compared to the proposed algorithm and conventional schemes.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.458-463
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• 2010

Since the acoustic nonlinearity is sensitive to the minute variation of material properties, the nonlinear ultrasonic technique(NUT) has been considered as a promising method to evaluate the material degradation or fatigue. However, there are certain limitations to apply the conventional NUT using the bulk wave to thin plates. In case of plates, the use of Lamb wave can be considered, however, the propagation characteristics of Lamb wave are completely different with the bulk wave, and thus the separate study for the nonlinearity of Lamb wave is required. For this work, this paper analyzed first the conditions of mode pair suitable for the practical application as well as for the cumulative propagation of quadratic harmonic frequency and summarized the result in for conditions; (1) phase matching, (2) non-zero power flux, (3) group velocity matching, and (4) non-zero out-of-plane displacement. Experimental results in aluminum plates showed that the amplitude of the secondary Lamb wave and nonlinear parameter growed up with increasing propagation distance at the mode pair satisfying the above all conditions and that the ration of nonlinear parameters measured in Al6061-T6 and Al1100-H15 was closed to the ratio of the absolute nonlinear parameters.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.44-49
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• 2008

In this paper, the performance for the non-linear satellite channel including the characteristics of group delay and gain ripple of transponder is analyzed with multi-level QAM-OFDM schemes. Comparing the BER performances between general OFDM and CI(Carrier Interferometry)-OFDM for various QAM schemes, the degree of performance improvement is presented in AWGN environments for specified nonlinear characteristics. The simulations are performed with the 36MHz bandwidth of transponder channel and 120Mbps transmission rate for QPSK, 8QAM, 16QAM, 32QAM, 64QAM schemes between normal and worst case condition. It is shown that the improvement measure by the CI-OFDM for the group delay of channel and nonlinear characteristic of HPA outperforms that for the gain ripple in the case of higher level QAM scheme in normal condition. And the simulation results show that the additional techniques like the channel coding and compensation scheme against the nonlinear characteristic are required for 32QAM and higher level QAM in worst case condition.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.105-111
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a locally adaptive image restoration method based on nonlinear extrapolation in frequency domain. In general, the conventional method causes ringing artifacts on the object boundary. To solve this problem, we introduce an improved restoration method which considers textures of an image block. In the proposed method, a blurred image is divided into several blocks, and each block is classified into three groups; simple, one edge, and complex blocks according to the contained texture. Depending on the classification result, adaptive nonlinear extrapolation is applied to each block in a blurred image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve higher quality image in both subjective and objective views as compared with the conventional method.