• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.7
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• pp.1321-1325
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• 2001

In this article, piezoelectric films and their application for film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) devices are presented. The FBAR is composed of piezoelectric film sandwiched between top and bottom electrodes and an acoustic reflector of SiO2/W stacked multilayers. Various FBAR devices were fabricated and evaluated through simulation and measurement. The insertion loss, return loss and Q-factor were observed to be reasonably high and good. The FBAR technology seems very promising particularly for RF band filter application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.621-625
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• 2001

In this article, piezoelectric films and their application for film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) devices are presented. The FBAR is composed of piezoelectric film sandwiched between top and bottom electrodes and an acoustic reflector of SiO$_2$/W slatted multilayers. Various FBAR devices were fabricated and evaluated through simulation and measurement. The insertion loss, return loss and Q-factor were observed to be reasonably high and good. The FBAR technology seems very promising particularly for RF band filter application.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.5-13
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• 1992

Taking devantage of the property that Korean digit is a mono-syllable word, we proposed a spoken Korean-digit recognition scheme using the multi-layer perceptron. The spoken Korean-digit is divided into three segments (initial sound, medial vowel, and final consonant) based on the voice starting / ending points and a peak point in the middle of vowel sound. The feature vectors such as cepstrum, reflection coefficients, ${\Delta}$cepstrum and ${\Delta}$energy are extracted from each segment. It has been shown that cepstrum, as an input vector to the neural network, gives higher recognition rate than reflection coefficients. Regression coefficients of cepstrum did not affect as much as we expected on the recognition rate. That is because, it is believed, we extracted features from the selected stationary segments of the input speech signal. With 150 ceptral coefficients obtained from each spoken digit, we achieved correct recognition rate of 97.8%.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.31-42
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• 1987

An ultrasonic pulse-echo diagnostic system for tissue characterization with the estimation of attenuation coefficients is developed and its performance has been examined by system implementation. The system divided into the ultrasonic generator, A/D converter, data communication, computer for signal processing. The methods for estimating the spatial distribution of acoustic attenuation coefficients using the moment analysis are proposed. The experimental results indicate the potential of the methods for tissue characterization.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.163-169
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• 2018

The present article discusses about the measurement techniques of acoustic impedance that becomes one of the important acoustic characteristics of various boundaries found inside of propulsion systems. Acoustic characteristics including acoustic impedance and reflection coefficient can be often assessed and estimated by use of the two-microphone method. Theoretical expressions of acoustic impedance and reflection coefficient measured in an impedance tube are presented for both cases with mean flow and without flow, and the practical application of the method through calibration is also provided. The acoustic impedance and the reflection coefficient are related with axial locations of microphones, thermodynamic characteristics of gas inside, and the transfer function between the pressure wave measurements at multiple locations.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.17-23
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• 1998

본 논문은 높은 전기 역학적 결합 계수를 갖고 있는 64°LiNbO3기판에 leaky표면 탄성파를 이용하여 종 결합 형태의 대역이 넓고, 손실이 적은 필터의 제작을 위한 연구이다. 이 기판 위에 1차 모드와 2차 모드를 이용하고 입력 IDT와 출력IDT사이의 거리, 그리고 전 극의 두께 및 전극 개수를 적절하게 조절하므로서 통과 대역 폭이 15MHz이상, 삽입 손실 1.28dB 및 저지대역 50dB인 특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 아울러, 전극의 두께는 파장과의 비를 고려해 2500Å으로 할 때 최적의 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며, IDT와 IDT 사이의 거리는 0.25 λ, IDT와 반사기 사이의 거리는 0.46λ로 할 때 가장 이상적인 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 제 작한 필터는 329.3MHz의 중심 주파수를 갖고 있는 소자로서 소형이고 낮은 삽입 손실을 갖 고 있으며, 무선 호출기에 사용 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.65-68
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• 2001

현재 음성인식기는 다채널의 음성입력방식을 사용하고 있는 추세이다. 이런 방법으로 음성인식기를 사용할 때에 자동적으로 음성을 검출하는 음성입력방식은 발성자와 마이크간의 거리에 따라 발성음성, 반사음성과 잡음이 입력된 경우에 원 음성의 고차포만트 성분에 왜곡이 발생하게 된다 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 고주파영역의 특성을 강조시킬 수 있는 프리엠퍼시스를 이용하여 더욱 더 정확한 음성입력 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 원음과 유사한 합성입력음을 얻었고, 또한 기존의 시간영역 법 보다 더 높은 SNR을 얻을 수 있다는 것을 알 수가 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.243-249
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• 2007

We propose an effective voice-based gender identification using group delay(GD) Generally, features for speech recognition are composed of magnitude information rather than phase information. In our approach, we address a difference between male and female for GD which is a derivative of the Fourier transform phase. Also, we propose a novel way to incorporate the features fusion scheme based on a combination of GD and magnitude information such as mel-frequency cepstral coefficients(MFCC), linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients, reflection coefficients and formant. The experimental results indicate that GD is effective in discriminating gender and the performance is significantly improved when the proposed feature fusion technique is applied.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2E
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• pp.83-91
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• 1994

Three components contribute to the acoustic field propagating in a wedge or over a ridge : a direct path arrival, an image component due to reflection from the boundaries and a component diffracted by the apex. All three contributions are included in a new, exact solution of the Helmholtz equation for the three-dimensional time harmonic field from a point source in a wedge(or over a ridge) formed by two intersecting, pressure-release plane boundaries. The solution is obtained by applying three integral transforms, and consists of and infinite sum of uncoupled normal nodes. The mode coefficients are given by a finite integral involving a Gegenbauer polynomial in the integrand, which may be computed relatively efficiently. Results of the theory for propagation over a 90 degree ridge is discussed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.115-128
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• 2012

This paper investigates the effects of diffuser on the acoustical parameters in music hall with consideration of the result of scattering coefficient measurement. A scale model hall of 600 seats with orchestra shell was used for experiments. The materials of 1:50 scale model was chosen through absorption coefficient measurement based on ISO 354. The model was matched to the computer simulation model in terms of reverberation time. In order to evaluate the effect of diffuser location, the measurements were accomplished with and without diffusers according to 7 configurations by diffuser-installed region; sidewall, balcony front, ceiling and so on. The following acoustical parameters were extracted from each measurement case; Reverberation time (RT), Early decay time (EDT), Clarity (C80), Center time (Ts), Sound strength (G) and Temporal diffusion (TD) from the auto-correlation function (ACF) of impulse responses. As a result, the absorption power and diffusion power were increased with number of diffusers. Accordingly RT, EDT and G were decreased by diffuser and the redirection of reflections was occurred briskly. Averaged TD was 6.05 to 6.30 by measurement cases. RT was found to be the most related factor to diffusion power (R = 0.94). The correlation between TD and EDT was high (R = 0.73). In addition, the effects of diffuser-installed location were discussed in terms of acoustical parameter variation.