• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.159-165
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• 2003

We developed a 37-channel magnetoencephalogram (MEG) measurement system based on low-noise superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometets, and operated the system to measure MEG signals. By using double relaxation oscillation SQUIDs with high flux-4o-voltage transfers, the SQUID outputs could be measured directly by room temperature preamplifiers and compact readout circuits were used for SQUID operation. The average field noise level of the magnetometers is about 3 fT/√Hz in the white region, low enough for MEG measurements when operated inside a magnetically shielded room. The 37 magnetometers were distributed on a hemispherical surface haying a radius of 125 mm. In addition to the 37 sensing channels. 11 reference channels were installed to pickup external noise and to form software gradiometers. A low-noise liquid helium dewar was fabricated with a liquid capacity of 30 L and boil-off rate of 4 L/d. The signal processing software consists of digital filtering, software gradiometer, isofield mapping and source localization. By using the developed system, we measured auditory-evoked fields and localized the current dipoles, demonstrating the effectiveness of the system.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.864-870
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• 2010

Air embolism can be a lethal complication of surgical procedures during which venous pressure at the site of surgery is sub-atmospheric or air is forced under pressure into a body cavity. To solve the problem, we developed the air detector using relative dielectric constant change, which is expected to be used broadly in industrial circles. We designed air detection system with air control equipment, detection circuit and LabVIEW system for air sensing. In experiments with a mock system, the proposed system showed a signal difference depending on the amount of air in the Tygon tube of the mock system.

• The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.57-63
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• 1997

Uninterruptible power supply(UPS) system should provide a good quality and stable power supply no matter what the condition of the raw mains. And when the mains fails, it must provide uninterrupted power to the load for a specified time. In this paper. discrete control system is introduced to improve output waveforms of UPS. This technique can be obtained output voltage by discrete data of synchronous control and voltage control to various loac. And then, the compact and light UPS can be realized by remove of the analog circuit and simulation and ezperinentation were performed with this control algofihtm. The experiment result show the effectiveness of proposed UPS system uwing the discrete control techjique.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.162-170
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• 2015

In the bandpass sampling (BPS), the sampling frequency is lower than the frequency of the signal to be sampled. In this method, the baseband spectrum can be directly obtained by the sampling operation. This makes the frequency down converter unnecessary as well as the receiver's circuit simpler. In the second-order BPS system, two sampling devices are used. When aliasing occurs due to the sampling operation, the aliased component can be cancelled by combining the two sampled signals. In this paper, it is presented a design method of the second-order BPS system when multiple interferences are simultaneously aliased to the signal component. The optimum phase of the interpolant filter is searched for maximizing the signal-to-interference ratio, and a practical formula for the suboptimal phase is derived in terms of the power spectrum profile of the BPS input. A computer simulation has been performed for the proposed second-order BPS system, and it has been shown that the signal-to-interference ratio can be increased by considering multiple aliasing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.69-72
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• 2012

In the bandpass sampling(BPS), the sampling frequency is lower than the frequency of the RF(radio frequency) signal being sampled. In this method, the baseband spectrum directly appears by the sampling itself, so that it is not necessary to use any down converter, making the receiver's hardware simpler. The second-order BPS uses two identical BPS samplers operating with an offset timing to each other. By a processing with their two sampled signals, it can be possible to cancel the aliasing or interference component if any due to the bandpass sampling. The interpolant filter, which is to manipulate the phase characteristics of the sampled signal, affects the performance of the cancellation. In this paper, a multiband interpolant filter is introduced, with which multiple interference signals from multiple RF bands can be cancelled simultaneously. We suggest several phase characteristics for the interpolant filter and have evaluated their performances through computer simulations. It has been shown that the filter with a continuous phase function gives the better performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.486-492
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• 2015

Radiation source imaging system is essential for protecting of radiation leakage accidents and minimizing damages from the radioactive materials, and is expected to play an important role in the nuclear plant decommissioning area. In this study, the stereoscopic camera principle was applied to develop a new radiation imaging device technology that can extract the radiation three-dimensional position information. This radiation three-dimensional imaging device (K3-RIS) was designed as a compact structure consisting of a radiation sensor, a CCD camera, and a pan-tilt only. It features the acquisition of stereoscopic radiation images by position change control, high-resolution detection by continuous scan mode control, and stereoscopic image signal processing. The performance analysis test of K3-RIS was conducted for a gamma-ray source(Cs-137) in radiation calibration facility. The test result showed that a performance error with less than 3% regardless of distances of the objects.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.482-489
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• 2016

Detection of gamma ray can be available using optical fiber scintillator under radiation environment. It monitors the transfer energies of these ions by photodiodes and then convertes into currents. The module which converts those currents into voltages and processes signals is named fine current module TIA, and it is essentially important to convert currents into voltages with high linearity. We have studied and developed the TIA, improving converting linearity and minimizing noises and off-set voltages. Also, we have made efforts to develop precise and accurate current module in compliance with concerned requirements. First of all, we established developing theory, developed related circuits, and then made the current module. And, we confirmed its stability and linearity to be more excellent than any other equipment proposed by other references. We tested the developed fine current modules in the real radiation environment under authorized supervising, confirmed them to meet related requirements.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.558-565
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• 2013

In this paper, modeling and simulation for performance analysis of high resolution SAR system has been carried out in the time, frequency and numeric domain using ADS Ptolemy simulation tool of Agilent corporation. SAR system consists of antenna, controller and transceiver. Error parameters affecting SAR system performances have been defined, modeled and simulated such as phase noise of frequency synthesizer, amplitude and phase characteristic of TWTA, sampling frequency of waveform generator and I/Q imbalance. Finally, the development requirements of SAR system based on the impulse response function have been derived.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.35-35
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• 2011

반도체 공정 및 디스플레이 공정에서 발생하는 오염입자는 공정 불량을 일으키는 가장 큰 원인 중의 하나이며, 수십 나노에서 수 백 나노의 크기를 갖는다. 최근 디스플레이 및 반도체 산업이 발전함에 따라 회로의 선폭이 점차 감소하고 있으며 오염입자의 임계 직경(critical diameter) 또한 작아지고 있다. 현재 반도체 및 디스플레이 산업에서 사용되는 측정방법은 레이저를 이용하여 공정 후 표면에 남아있는 오염입자를 측정하는 ex-situ 방법이 주를 이루고 있다. Ex-situ 방법을 이용한 오염입자의 제어는 웨이퍼 전체를 측정할 수 없을 뿐만 아니라 실시간 측정이 불가능하기 때문에 공정 모니터링 장비로 사용이 어려우며 오염입자와 공정 간의 상관관계 파악에도 많은 제약이 따르게 된다. 이에 따라 저압에서 in-situ 방법을 이용한 실시간 오염입자 측정 기술 개발이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 저압 환경에서 실시간으로 입자를 모니터링 할 수 있는 장비를 입자의 광 산란 원리를 이용하여 개발하였으며, 산란 신호를 입자크기로 변환하는 신호 분석 알고리즘 연구를 수행하였다. 빛이 입자와 충돌하게 되면 산란 및 흡수 현상이 발생하게 되는데 이 때 발생하는 산란 및 흡수량과 입자 크기와의 연관성이 Gustav Mie에 의해서 밝혀졌으며, 현재까지 광을 이용한 입자 크기 분석 장치의 기본 원리로 사용되고 있다. 하지만, Mie 이론은 단일입자가 일정한 강도를 가진 광을 통과할 경우인 이상적인 조건에서 적용이 가능하고 실제 조건에서는 광이 가우시안 분포를 가지며 광 집속에 의해서 광 강도가 위치에 따라 변하기 때문에 이러한 조건을 가지는 광을 입자가 통과할 때 발생하는 산란량은 단순히 Mie 이론에 의해서 계산하는 것이 불가능 하다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 현상을 입자 측정의 불확정성 이라고 규정하고 입자가 특정한 위치를 통과할 확률을 이용하여 신호를 분석하는 알고리즘을 개발 및 연구를 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.5647-5654
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• 2012

In this paper, we developed an electro impedance spectroscopy (EIS) device, which are primarily used for the analysis of fuel cells or batteries, to widen its coverage to the next generation super capacitor EDLC characterization. The developed system was composed of a signal generator that can generate various signal patterns, a potentiostatic generator, and a high speed digital filter for signal processing and measurement program. The developed system is portable, which is not only suitable laboratory use but also for mass production line. The special features of the system include a patterned output signal from 0.01 to 20 kHz, and a fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis of current signals, both of which are acquired simultaneously. Our tests showed similar results after comparing the analysis from our newly-developed device showing the characteristics of EDLC complex impedance and the analysis from an equivalent impedance which was applied to an equivalent circuit. Now, we can expect a fast inspection time from the application of the present system to the super capacitor production line, based on time-varying changes in electrochemical impedance.