• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.274-281
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• 2004

In this study. a 1-3 piezo-composite single element ultrasonic transducer was designed with a commercial finite element analysis (FEA) code. PZf1ex and developed based on this design. Design with FEA could be performed overcoming many constraints of the typical theoretical method, and also was very practical. Validity of the design with the FEA was illustrated through experimental characterization of fabricated 1-3 piezo-composites and ultrasonic transducers, Through comparison with the result of the theoretical method. we confirmed the superiority of the design method using FEA.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.436-444
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• 2016

Uniformity in transducer performance is a must-have to ensure the reliable acoustic performance of a tile projector, used for active echo reduction. However, practical limitations imposed by variations in material properties and fabrication errors lead to performance variations among unit transducers, which could degrade the radiation characteristics (transmitting voltage response and directivity) of the tile projector and ultimately the echo reduction performance. In this paper we present a method to minimize these adverse effects via an appropriate placement of unit transducers within the tile projector. To this end, we perform a series of coupled acoustic-piezoelectric simulations, assuming a group of 36 unit transducers having 6 dB variations in transmitting voltage response, to analyze and compare the radiation characteristics of tile projectors under different transducer placement schemes.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.343-354
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• 2009

In this paper, a magnetic-less dc-dc switching converter realizing an integrable power conversion system is described. Instead of magnetic devices, the inductive impedance range of piezoelectric transducers is utilized to store and resonate the energy for soft-switching. Piezoelectric devices have no windings and deliver the power by the electrodes, which lead to mass product through semiconductor-manufacturing process. This paper presents a resonant-type step-up dc-dc power converter employing a disk-type piezoelectric transducer, analyzing the operation principles and the frequency control characteristics. Also, a topology extension of the single stage converter into cascaded multi-stage is presented and analyzed with the operation principles and control characteristics. For verification of the analysis, a 10W output dc-dc power converter hardware was implemented. The hardware experiments shows a good frequency control and power efficiency greater than 96% in the single stage. A hardware prototype of the extended multi-stage one was also realized and tested. The results shows that the converter has the same frequency control performance and high efficiency such as 93%.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06d
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• pp.1-4
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• 1998

본 논문에서는순수 압전세라믹에 비해 동등이상의 압적특성을 가지면서도 음향임피던스가 월등히 낮은 1-3형 압적복합체를 이용한 탐촉자의 개발에 관해 연구하였다. 압전 복합재료 탐촉자는 그 자체만으로 측정대상체와의 음향임피던스 차를 최소화하여 별도의 정합층을 필요로 하지 않는 특징을 가진다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 복합재료에 사용되는 고분자재료의 물성값 설계와, 압전세라믹과의 적절한 배합구조와 형상의 결정에 주안점을 두었다. 그 결과를 바탕으로 압전 복합체 초음파 트랜스듀서 시작품을 제작하고 그성능을 분석하였으며, 이론적인 시뮬레이션 결과과의 비교를 통해 설계이론의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.309-310
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 초음파 CT의 구현을 위한 실험적 검토의 한단계로써, 압전진동자의 횡효과진동모드를 이용한 무지향성 음원을 원통 내부벽면의 일부분에 선형 배열하는 형태의 원호형 초음파 트랜스듀서 어레이를 제작하였다. 제작된 어레이의 성능 평가로써 공업용 한천 가루를 이용하여 만든 모의생체시료를 이용하여 화상재연에 대한 검토를 수행하였다. 그 결과, 제작된 원호형 초음파 트랜스듀서 어레이는 초음파 토모그래픽을 위한 송수신부로써의 적용가능성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.353-356
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• 2004

단일 PZT보다 전기적 및 음향 특성비 우수한 Polymer/PZT 압전복합재료를 설계하고, 이것으로 초음과 트랜스듀서를 제작하여 음향특성을 고찰하였다. 폴리머의 체적 수축율 조정을 위한 충진제를 선정하고, PZT의 부피분율출 $30\~80\%$ 변화시켜 이것에 따른 전기적 특성 및 음향 특성을 비교, 검토하였다. PZT/Polymer 압전복합재료의 전기기계결합계수$(=k_{t})$는 단일 PZT 보다 우수하게 나타났으며, 음향 임피던스는 $3\~7[Mrayl]$ 정도로 낮게 조정할 수 있었다. 또한 Pulse-echo법으로 음향 송수신특성을 측정한 길과, 단일의 PZT를 사용한 경우보다 높은 진폭과 넓은 대역폭이 측정되어 음향 특성이 우수한 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.365-368
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• 2002

수중에서와 같이 전자기파의 사용이 곤란한 환경에서 정보의 전달 방법으로 초음파를 사용하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 기존의 방법은 음파의 전파 경로 상에 있어서 잡음, 온도, 음속 등의 환경에 많은 영향을 받기 때문에 정확한 정보의 전달이 곤란한 경우가 있다. 본 연구에서는 전기적 용량으로 특성을 제어할 수 있는 2층 구조 압전 트랜스듀서에 있어서 전기적 용량 변화에 따른 공진 모드간의 효율 비의 변화를 이용하여 전파 경로 상의 환경 변화에 독립적인 원격 물리 계측법을 제안하고 그 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.24-29
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• 1996

A composite piezoelectric ceramic transducer is fabricated with three piezoelectric ceramic disk vibrators and two sheets of thin insulator. Its equivalent circuit is derived from the Mason's model of a thickness-driven piezoelectric vibrator. When the electric input near its fundamental resonance frequency is applied to the center vibrator and the output voltages across the left and the right vibrators are connected in series to the resistor loads, the load characteristics at resonance frequencies under the various resistor loads and the frequency characteristics near the resonance frequency without load are investigated. Furthermore, symbolic expressions for input impedances, voltage ratios, resonance frequencies, and bandwidths are derived. The data calculated from those symbolic expressions are agreed well with the measurement data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.40.4-40.4
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• 2004

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.184-192
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• 2019

Compared to 31-mode rings, 33-mode rings are highly utilized as wide bandwidth underwater acoustic transducers because the electro-mechanical coupling and piezoelectric constant d are high. On the other hand, the 31-mode ring is an axial symmetry structure, so it is possible to model it as a simple two-dimensional asymmetrical model for numerical analysis, but the 33-mode ring requires a three-dimensional numerical analysis. That is, a lot of computing resources and computation time are required. In this study, the effective material properties of an equivalent 31-mode ring were derived to simulate the electro-mechano-acoustical responses of the 33-mode ring transducer. Using the effective material properties derived from this study, a numerical analysis of rings in vacuum, air backed rings in water, and FFR (Free Flooded Ring) transducers were performed to compare the responses of 33-mode rings.