• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.300-300
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• 2007

최근 전기전자기기 및 광학기기 등의 소형화 및 고기능에 맞추어 구동 장치의 소형화가 필수적으로 요구됨에 따라, 보다 간단한 구조의 다양한 소형 압전 선형 모터에 대한 개발이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 굴곡 진동 모드를 갖는 평판형의 압전체와 탄성체로 구성된 압전 트랜스듀서와 두 개의 압전 트랜스듀서를 연결하여 타원 운동을 구현하기 위해, 굴곡 변형이 발생하는 한 쌍의 압전 트랜스듀서에 $90^{\circ}$ 위상차를 갖는 정현파를 각각 인가하여, 한 쌍의 압전 트랜스듀서를 연결하는 돌출부에서 타원궤적을 형성하는 소형 압전 액츄에이터를 설계하였다. 유한요소해석 프로그램인 ATILA를 이용하여 결합부의 타원 궤적의 형성하기 위한 압전 트랜스듀서의 최적 동작 주파수로 운동 모드를 결정하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.585-596
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• 2012

PVDF(poly vinylidene fluoride) and P(VDF-TrFE)(poly vinylidene fluoride-tetrafluoroethylene) are the typical piezoelectric polymers with unique properties. Even they are inferior to conventional piezoelectric ceramics PZT in electromechanical conversion efficiency and interior loss, though they are superior in receiving sensitivity and frequency bandwidth. Their acoustic impedances are relatively close to water or biological tissue and it is easier to make thin film than other piezoelectric materials. Futhermore, the film is so flexible that it is easy to attach on a complex surface. Those properties are suitable for the ultrasound transducers which are useful for medical and biological application, so that various types of polymer transducers have been developed. In this paper, several important considerations for design and fabrication of piezoelectric polymer transducers were described and their effect on the transducer performance were demonstrated through the KLM model analysis. Then, it was briefly reviewed about the structures of the polymer transducers developed for obtaining images as well as the characteristics of the images in several important medical and biological application fields.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.377-387
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• 1999

A piezoelectric flextentional deep-water sonar transducer has been designed using a coupled FE-HEM. The dynamics of the sonar transducer is modelled in three dimensions and is analyzed with external electrical excitation conditions. Different results are available such as steady-state frequency response for TX displacement modes, directivity patterns, resonance frequencies, TVRs. While the conventional barrel-stave typed sonar transducer of the piezoelectric material is designed, the external surface of the transducer is modified in order to allow the same hydrostatic pressure to be applied onto the inner and the outer surfaces of the transducer. With this modification for deep-water application, a new resonance mode is generated at lower frequency. This lower resonance mode can be adjusted according to the degree of the outer surface modification.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.329-336
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• 2003

Intra-Vascular Ultra-Sound (IVUS) transducers were developed for the application to diagnose coronary diseases. The transducer consists of 32 piezoelectric elements with a front insulation layer and a polymeric acoustic backing layer on a hollow alumina tube. The optimal geometrical structure of the transducer was designed through theoretical analysis of radiation patterns of the transducer. Samples of the IVUS transducers of the diameter of 3㎜ were fabricated to illustrate the design scheme. For the piezoelectric elements, 2-2 mode piezocomposite materials were employed. Experimental performance of the transducers showed good agreement with the design results, which verified feasibility of the transducer for IVUS applications.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.199-207
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• 2013

In this paper, a $64{\times}8$ channel 1.75D ultrasonic transducer made of piezoelectric single crystals was designed, fabricated, and evaluated. First, a structure of the transducer was selected to be suitable for wiring on a planar array, and components were fabricated to correspond to the structure. Detailed structure of the transducer was designed through finite element analyses. As main performance factors, the crosstalk between neighboring elements was reduced through the control of kerf width and material, and desired frequency bandwidth of the transducer was achieved by designing the optimal thicknesses of the piezoelectric single crystal and matching layers. An experimental prototype of the transducer was fabricated following the design, and its performance was measured. Then the experimental results were compared with those of the finite element analysis, which led to the evaluation of the transducer developed in this work.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.207-216
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• 1999

A phased array is a multi-element piezoelectric device whose elements are individually excited by electric pulses at programmed delay time. One of the advantages of using phased array in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) application over conventional ultrasonic transducers is their great maneuverability of ultrasonic beam. There are some parameters such as the number and the size of the piezoelectric elements and the inter-element spacing of the elements to design phased array transducer. In this study, the characteristic of ultrasonic beam for phased array transducer due to the variation of the number of elements has been simulated for ultrasonic SH-wave on the basis of Huygen's principle. Ultrasonic beam directivity and focusing due to the change of time delay of each element were discussed due to the change of the number of piezoelectric elements. It was found that ultrasonic beam was much more spreaded and hence its sound pressure was decreased as steering angle of ultrasonic beam was increased. In addition, the ability of ultrasonic bean focusing decreased gradually with the increase of focal length at the same piezoelectric elements. However, the ability of beam focusing was improved as the number of consisting elements was increased.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.364-364
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• 2008

유한요소해석을 통하여 수도계량기용 삽입형 초음파 유량계 압전 트랜스듀서의 설계를 실시하고 이를 평가하였다. 상용 해석프로그램인 PzFlex를 사용하여 센서의 transient 해석을 실시하였다. 이를 통해 각 구성부품의 재질 및 형상 변수를 결정하였다. 이를 기준으로 트랜스듀서를 제작하였으며, 두께모드 중심주파수가 1.2MHz가 되도록 직경 10mm의 압전소자를 이용하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 $25^{\circ}$의 방사각으로 음향파가 발생되도록 트랜스듀서를 설계, 제작한 후, 트랜스듀서의 전기적, 기계적 특성을 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.149-150
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• 2015

압전 마이크로머신 초음파 트랜스듀서(Piezoelectric micro-machined ultrasonic transducers)는 DC 바이어스 전압을 인가해야 구동되는 특성을 가지고 있다. 따라서 초음파 트랜스 듀서를 구동하기 위한 전력증폭기는 DC 바이어스 전압이 요구되므로 기존의 전력증폭기에 비해 효율이 매우 낮아지게 된다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 압전 마이크로머신 초음파 트랜스듀서를 구동하기 위한 고효율 전력증폭기를 제안한다. 전력증폭기는 AMP부와 전원부로 나뉘며, AMP부는 Class B Amp를 사용하여 높은 증폭 선형성을 갖는다. 전원부는 Amp를 구동하기위한 DC-DC converter가 에너지 회수 동작을 하므로 전력증폭기의 효율을 높일 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 압전 마이크로머신 초음파 트랜스듀서를 구동하기 위한 전력증폭기 회로를 제시하고 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통해 동작 특성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.286-294
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• 2001

In this study, 3-D underwater object recognition using the self-made 3-3 type composite ultrasonic transducer and modified SOFM(Self Organizing Feature Map) neural network are investigated. Properties of the self-made 3-3 type composite specimens are satisfied considerably with requirements as an underwater ultrasonic transducer's materials. 3-D underwater all object's recognition rates obtained from both the training data and testing data in different objects, such as a rectangular block, regular triangular block, square block and cylinderical block, were 100% and 94.0%, respectively. All object's recognition rates are obtained by utilizing the self-made 3-3 type composite transducer and SOFM neural network. From the object recognition rates, it could be seen that an ultrasonic transducer fabricated with the self-made 3-3 type composite resonator will be able to have application for the underwater object recognition.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.455-458
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• 1998

초음파 산업분야에 널리 사용되고 있는 PZT 압전 세라믹 진동자의 경우 높은 품질계수로 인하여 대역폭이 좁고, 진동 시 두께방향 진동뿐만 아니라 횡방향 진동으로 인하여 초음파 신호를 분석하는데 여러 가지 어려움이 항상 존재하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 PZT 세라믹스와 고분자 재료인 Epoxy를 사용하여 1-3 접속도를 갖는 압전 복합재료를 제조하였다. 이를 이용하여 초음파 트랜스듀서를 제작하였고, 이에 대한 전기음향변환능률을 어드미턴스 loop를 측정하여 구하였다. 유전율, 공진 주파수 등을 포함한 기본적인 트랜스듀서의 파라메터들은 공진 부근에서 전기적인 임피던스로부터 측정하였다. 이러한 파라메터들을 적용하여 주파수에 대한 트랜스듀서의 성능을 평가하였다. Pulse-echo법을 이용하여 삽입손실율을 구하고 임펄스 반응을 통하여 주파수 대역폭에 대해서 측정하였다. 그 결과 어드미턴스 loop로부터 두께방향모드를 제외한 횡방향 모드는 거의 나타나지 않았다. 유전율은 5.25㎊m이었고, 공진주파수 1.65MHz에서 -8dB의 최소 손실이 발생하였다. 주파수대역폭은 -6dB에서 64%(Q ; 1.56)의 대역폭이 측정되었고 전기기계 결합계수는 0.54이고 전기기계변환능률은 52%, 기계음향변환능률은 31%로 측정되었다.