• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.10C
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• pp.1395-1401
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• 2004

In The objective of this paper is to apply blind minimum output energy multiuser detection method to multicarrier direct sequence code division multiple access system. The performance of MC/DS-CDMA is reduced due to multiple access. To increase the performance of system, we need to cancel multiple user components. Blind interference canceller is able to detect the desired's information with the only minimal information of the desired user. We evaluate the performance of the proposed receiver under Gaussian channel. Simulation results show that the proposed receiver has about 6［dB］ gain of signal to noise ratio without multiple user interference and has about 3［dB］ gain of SNR with multiple user interference. Also, the result of comparing the capacity of the active users shows that the proposed method has about 2 times capacity more than conventional method. As a conclusion, simulation results show that the proposed method has better performs better than conventional method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1C
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• pp.77-86
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a noncoherent IR-UWB (Impulse Radio-Ultra Wide Band) ranging system with an AFE (Analog Front End) composed of a simple integrator and an 1-bit ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter), and define AFE characteristics affecting the ranging performance. This system is realistic and easy to implement, since the integrator simply accumulates signal energies and the simple 1-bit ADC is applied instead of the multi-bit ADCs for coherent IR-UWB systems. On the other hand, its ranging accuracy is largely affected channel environments such as noise, multipath fading and so on, since the noncoherent receiver simply squares and integrates the received signals. However, despite these practical importances, there are few conventional researches on the performance analysis according to AFE characteristics in IR-UWB ranging systems. To this end, we analyze in this paper ranging performance according to AFE characteristics for the noncoherent IR-UWB ranging system in various wireless channel environments, and through these results we also present system parameters to be considered in UWB hardware designs.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.1113-1119
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• 2003

We used isopropanol which has low boiling point to prepare thin films at low temperature and changed mole concentration of zinc acetate from 0.3 to 1.3 mol/l. The structural, optical and electrical properties of ZnO thin films with Zn content were investigated. ZnO thin films highly oriented along the c-axis were obtained at Zn concentration of 0.7 mol/l. ZnO thin films with Zn concentration of 0.7 mol/l showed a homogeneous surface layer of nano structure. The transmittance of ZnO thin films by UV-vis. measurement was about 87% under the Zn concentration of 0.7 mol/l, but rapidly decreased over the 1.0 mol/l. The optical band gap energy was obtained from 3.07 to 3.22 eV which is very close to the band gap of bulk ZnO (3.2 eV). The electrical resistivity of ZnO thin films was about 150 $\Omega$-cm that shows little difference with Zn concentration. I-V curves of ZnO thin films exhibited typical ohmic contact properties.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.648-653
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• 2012

Hybridization of dense ceramic membranes for hydrogen separation with an electronically conductive metallic phase is normally utilized to enhance the hydrogen permeation flux and thereby to increase the production efficiency of hydrogen. In this study, we developed a nickel and proton conducting oxide ($BaCe_{0.9}Y_{0.1}O_{3-{\delta}}$: BCY) based cermet (ceramic-metal composites) membrane. Focused on the general criteria in that the hydrogen permeation properties of a cermet membrane depend on its microstructural features, such as the grain size and the homogeneity of the mix, we tried to optimize the microstructure of Ni-BCY cermets by controlling the fabrication condition. The Ni-BCY composite powder was synthesized via a solid-state reaction using $2NiCO_3{\cdot}3Ni(OH)_2{\cdot}4H_2O$, $BaCeO_3$, $CeO_2$ and $Y_2O_3$ as a starting material. To optimize the mixing scale and homogeneity of the composite powder, we employed a high-energy milling process. With this high-energy milled composite powder, we could fabricate a fine-grained dense membrane with an excellent level of mixing homogeneity. This controlled Ni-BCY cermet membrane showed higher hydrogen permeability compared to uncontrolled Ni-BCY cermets created with a conventionally ball-milled composite powder.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.307-313
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• 1997

he photoconductive gain mechanism in amorphus silicon devices was investigated in connection with applications to radiation detection. Various device types such as p-i-n, n-i-n and i-i-p-i-n structures were fabricated and tested. Photoconductive gain was measured in two time scales : one for short pulses of visible light(<$1{\mu}sec$) which simulate the transit of energetic charged particles or ${\gamma}$-rays, and the other for rather long pulses of light(1msec) which simulate x-ray exposure in medical imaging, We used two definitions of phtoconductive gain : current gain and charge gain which is an integration of the current gain. We obtained typical charge gains of 3~9 for short pulses and a few hundreds for long pulses at a dark current density level of 10mA/$cm^2$. Various gain results are discussed in terms of the device structure, applied bias and dark current density.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1760-1767
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• 2008

In this study, we analyzed the physical and chemical properties such as proximate analysis, ultimate analysis, heating values, and thermogravimetric analysis for the organic sludges discharged from an industrial complex in Ulsan. The average water, combustible, and ash content of organic sludges were 72.9, 18.5, and 8.6%, respectively. And according to the ultimate analysis of organic sludges, the C, O, H, N, and S compositions were 33.9, 26.4, 4.4, 4.4, and 0.6%, respectively. According to the results of investigating the lower heating values, 6 sludges were on the range of $1,500{\sim}2,000\;kcal/kg$ and 4 sludges were on the range of over 2,000 kcal/kg. Therefore, these 10 sludges could be directly applied to industries which try to use the energy by direct incineration.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.1656-1658
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• 2003

고전압 대전류 시스템에 사용하는 스위치의 기본 요구조건은 저가, 긴 수명, 적은 지터와 대용량 그리고 seal-off 형태로 쉽게 설치하여 운전하는 것이다. 본 논문은 고전압 대전류용 Seal-off TVS (Triggered Vacuum Switch)를 개발하는 것을 목적으로 하고있다. 제작한 TVS는 양전극과 음전극이 교대로 고정된 간격으로 각각 3개의 전극으로 배열되어 있으며 전극은 사다리꼴 모양으로 되어있고 트리거 시스템과 개스를 흡수하는 게터가 내부에 설치되어 있다. 제작한 스위치 내부는 약 $10^{-7}$ torr의 진공상태를 유지하고 있으며 세라믹 챔버를 사용하여 Seal-off 상태로 설계, 제작하였다. TVS의 에너지 최고 전달량은 74 C 이며 30 kV, 100 kA, $1{\sim}2$ ms의 스위치를 제작하여 시험을 하였다. 스위치 시험 장치는 200 ${\mu}F$, 22 kV 6개를 병렬로 연결한 커패시터 뱅크와 160 ${\mu}H$의 인덕터와 0.2 ${\Omega}$의 저항을 이용하여 시험 장치를 구성하였다. 본 논문은 제작한 스위치의 전기적인 특성 시험한 결과에 대하여 논하고자 한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.64 no.5
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• pp.779-785
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• 2015

Recently, home energy management system (HEMS) for power consumption reduction has been widely used and studied. The HEMS performs electric power consumption control for the indoor electric device connected to the HEMS. However, a traditional HEMS is used for passive control method using some particular power saving devices. Disadvantages with this traditional HEMS is that these power saving devices should be newly installed to build HEMS environment instead of existing home appliances. Therefore, an HEMS, which performs with existing home appliances, is needed to prevent additional expenses due to the purchase of state-of-the-art devices. In this paper, an intelligent inference algorithm for EMS at home for non-power saving electronic equipment, called legacy devices, is proposed. The algorithm is based on the adaptive network fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and has a subsystem that notifies retraining schedule to the ANFIS to increase the inference performance. This paper discusses the overview and the architecture of the system, especially in terms of the retraining schedule. In addition, the comparison results show that the proposed algorithm is more accurate than the classic ANFIS-based EMS system.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.1-10
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• 1996

Solar cells made of the edge-defined film-fed growth Si are characterized using current-voltage, surface photovoltage, electron beam induced current, electron microprobe, scanning electron microscopy, and electron backscattering. The weak temperature dependence of the I-V curves in the EFG solar cells is due to a voltage variable shunt resistance giving higher diode ideality factors than the ideal one. The voltage variable shunt resistance is modeled by a modified recombination mechanism which includes carrier tunneling to distributed impurity energy states in the band gap within the space-charge region. The junction integrity and the substrate quality are characterized simultaneously by combining I-V and surface photovoltage (SPV) measurements. The diode ideality factors and the surface photovoltages characterize the junction integrity while the SPV diffusion lengths characterizes the substrate quality. Most of the measured samples show the voltage variable shunt resistance although how serious it is depends on the solar cell efficiency. The voltage variable shunt resistance is understood as one of the most important factors of the degradation of EFG solar cells.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.2
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• pp.347-353
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• 2017

In order to prohibit global warming, various kinds of regulatory policies have been established in the whole world. One example is the establishment of the Renewable Portfolio Standard. It requires the increased portion in energy production from renewable energy sources. The Republic of Korea adopted the act on the promotion of the development, use, and diffusion of new and renewable energy since 2012. However, in spite of the effort on the consideration of the renewable energy sources, it was reported the carbon intensity of electricity in Korea was not that low in 2015. Thus, it is required to examine the recent state of the utilization degree of the renewable energy sources in Korea. This paper analyzed the statistical data provided by Korea Power Exchange (KPX) to examine any problems and solutions for generating electricity from the renewable energy sources. We focused on the generation capacity provided by the power plants participated in the market, the electric power trading amount, and the utilization coefficient for 10 years. By analyzing the data, we provide an alternative to solve some imbalance among the factors contributing to renewable energy use.