• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.97-102
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• 2012

Recently, a wireless sensor network system has been receiving great attention for management of underground facilities. However, traditional wireless communication systems using microwaves in several hundred MHz ~ several GHz experience significant performance degradation in the non-uniform underground environment. In this research, in order to make a robust communication for the underground facilities, we propose a wireless underground sensor system based on magnetic field communication. In 3 meters underground environment including rocks, soils, water, etc.,, our proposed sensor network system has proved fully functional and met its performance specification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 1993.11a
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• pp.28-29
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• 1993

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

This paper presents empirical equations indicating the high frequency performance characteristics of air-cored induction coil sensors with their constructional parameters. An air-cored induction coil sensor is widely used due to good linearity at low frequency ranges but the sensor has weakness of relatively low sensitivity to the magnetic field. At high frequency ranges, the sensitivity can be dramatically increased, largely depending on the frequency of the injected field, and this property can be a great asset to some electromagnetic inspections, since they utilize the interrogating current with a fixed frequency. The application of this property of the coil sensor requires the estimation of its high frequency performance. We made experiments on the frequency responses of the coil sensors under diverse constructional conditions and, on the basis of the experimental results, the high frequency performance, such as the resonant frequency and the sensitivity at the frequency, was estimated, as a function of the constructional parameters of the coil sensor. The good agreements between experimental and estimated data were reported.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.174-178
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• 2002

Ac magnetic field was changed in the vicinity of a flaw because of the distribution of eddy current within a conductor, when the magnetic field was applied to a conductor having a flaw. The flaw detection was performed by using Co-based amorphous wire sensor head. The wire has almost 0 magneto-striction and high permeability. An comparative uniform magnetic field was applied to a 1㎜ thick copper plate and a 25㎛ thick aluminum sheet conductor using spiral typed coil. The size of the coil has 40㎜$\times$40㎜ outer width and 8㎜$\times$8㎜ inner width. The copper plate and the aluminum sheet has 0.5㎜ and 0.1㎜ wide gap, respectively. The frequency range of applied field was 100㎑∼600㎑. The induced voltage difference of 2.5㎷ was obtained in the maximum voltage and minimum one measured across the gap of the 1mm thick conductor. In the case of aluminum sheet, 0.4㎷ was obtained. From this results, the effectiveness of Co-based amorphous wire was confirmed in the ECT technique.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.13 no.2 s.54
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• pp.181-188
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• 2009

Measuring the tensile strength of steel cables used to support bridges is a critical inspection item in terms of the safety of a bridge. Today, cable tension is measured with the vibration method and loadcell. Recently, some advanced countries have conducted studies on measuring tension with magnetic method and are suggesting prospective results. Since there were no such studies ongoing in Korea, we began a study on measuring tension with magnetic method as we are undergoing researches to improve the precision of measurements. It is necessary to consider the influence for the magnetic field and the temperature of steel cables in tension measurement of magnetic method. In this paper, we tested an output characteristic of tension sensor according to temperature and deduced temperature compensation coefficient in the given magnetic field and applied the compensation coefficient to the tension measurement system in the lab. We analyzed and evaluated testing results for the output voltages of the tension sensor according to cable tensions.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.200-204
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• 2013

In this study, we have fabricated magnetoresistive sensors of $50{\mu}m{\times}50{\mu}m$ cross type by trilayer structure of antiferromagnetic/nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic. The magnetic signal and magnetic domain of this sensor is measured. The sensor hysteresis loop is not in symmetrical at 0 Oe. This is may be due to the exchange coupling between ferromagnetic layer and anti ferromagnetic layer. This exchange bias value is 20 Oe. The sensor signal is measured at between the applied magnetic field and current. The sensor signal is measured between the applied magnetic field and current at $20^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$ angles. The sensitivity of sensor signals is $20{\mu}V/Oe$ and $7{\mu}V/Oe$ at $20^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$ angles, respectively. In addition, this sensor is also applied for the detection of magnetic bacteria at $20^{\circ}$ angle. From these results, we calculate the stray field of single bacteria is to be $5{\times}10^{-5}$Oe.

• Ceramist
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.35-46
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• 1999

GMR 재료의 응용은 매우 광범위하며 크게 세 분야로 대별할 수 있다. 첫째는 자기 재생 헤드로서 $10Gbit/in^2$ 이상의 고밀도 자기기록 기술에서는 필수 불가결한 재료이다. 둘째는 다양한 분야에 응용될 고감도 자기센서 분야이며, 셋째는 집접화된 자기저항메모리(MRAM) 분야이다. GMR 센서를 사용한 자기헤드는 이미 시판되고 있고 기존의 AMR 재료인 퍼멀로이에 비하여 3~20배 이상으로 신호준위가 크고 사용온도 범위에서 선형성 및 열적안정성도 우수한 것으로 보고되고 있다. MRAM의 경우에는 스핀밸브 GMR 및 TMR 소자를 사용한 연구가 한창 진행중이다. GMR 현상은 발견 된지 고작 10년 밖에 되지 않았으나 GMR 자기센서는 이미 상업적으로 개발되어 응용되고 있다. 이러한 실질적인 응용에 유리한 고지를 선점하고 있는 것은 이방성결합형 스핀밸브 다층박막 구조로서 그 내구성과 특성 향상을 위한 연구가 다양하게 시도되고 있다. GMR현상의 발견은 자성재료분야 연구 및 응용에 있어 새로운 전기를 마련하였으며 특히 자성과 이동현상이 연계된 분야로서 소위 "Magneto-electronics" 또는 "Spintronics" 라는 [51] 새로운 미래기술의 장이 열리고 있다. 현재의 반도체 중심의 "Microelectronics" 기술에서는 전자와 전자공공을 이용하는 기술이라면 "Magneto-electronics" 기술에서는 스핀${\uparrow}$ 및 스핀${\downarrow}$의 두 종류의 전자를 이용하게 된다. 자성체와 도체를 접목한 스핀 트랜지스터 또는 자성체와 반도체를 접목한 스핀-polarized FET(field effect transistor) 등의 새로운 개념의 magnetoelectronics 소자가 창출되고 있다. 따라서 자기이동 현상의 기초 연구, 재료 측면의 연구 및 헤드, MRAM, 센서 등의 응용기술연구가 국내에서 활발하게 이루어져 21세기 새로운 자성전자(magneto-electronics)소자 응용에 경쟁력을 키워야 할 것이다.

• 전기의세계
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.44-47
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• 1994

자기부상열차의 효율적인 추력제어 및 안전성 높은 운행을 위해서 고성능의 속도/위치 검출 시스템이 중요한 역할을 한다. 일반열차는 바퀴가 선로에 접촉하여 주행하므로 차축의 회전속도를 측정해서 열차의 선로위를 일정한 간격을 두고 부상하여 주행하므로 비접촉식 측정방법을 사용해야만 한다[1-5]. 특히, 고속으로 주행하는 자기부상열차의 속도를 측정하기 위해서는 응답속도가 빠른 센서시스템을 개발하며, 또한 열차주행에 수반되는 자기장의 영향을 극소화하도록 센서시스템을 설계해야만 한다. 본고에서는 전형적인 자기부상열차인 일본의 HSST 시스템(주행속도 100km/h)과 독일의 Transrapid 시스템(주행속도: 400km/h)에 적용되고 있는 속도/위치 검출 시스템의 작동원리를 상세히 설명한다. HSST 시스템은 유도무선(inductive radio system) 방법을 이용하고 Transrapid 시스템은 와전류근접센서(eddy-current proximity sensor)를 이용한다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.211-217
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• 2003

This paper is proposed that roadway recognition performance improvement for autonomous vehicle using magnetic markers that are embedded along the road center and the sensors mounted on a vehicle, and which changing of magnetic field that is measured along with vehicle driving. For Retrenchment of equipment cost, interval of markers is more expensive than existing method. In order to this, This paper is proposed that interval of markers is founded using magnetic field analysis, and which arrangement method of six magnetic sensors and control method of neural network. This paper is carried out magnetic field analysis, the acquiring of the training patterns, the training of the neural network and composition of steering control, and is verified that roadway recognition performance can improve using computer simulation with proposed methods.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.139-148
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• 1991

A fiber-optic magnetic sensor system for the detection of small ac magnetic field(200Hz-2 kHz) was constructed. Magnetic field sensing part was fabricated by bonding a section of optical fiber to amorphous metallic glass(2605SC) having large magnetostriction effect. And with the directional coupler, all fiber type Mach-Zehnder interferometer was constructed to measure the variation of the external magnetic field by translating it into the optical phase shift in the interferometer. The signal fading problem of the interferometer, which is due to random phase drifts originated from the environment, i.e., temperature fluctuation, vibrations, etc., was elliminated by feedback phase compensation. This allows the sensitivity to be maintained at the maximum by keeping the interferometer in quadrature phase condition. The frequency response of metallic glass was found to be nearly flat in the range of 90 Hz-2 kHz and dc bias field for the maximum ac response was 3.5 Oe. The interferometer output showed good linearity over the range $\pm$0.5 Oe. For 1 kHz ac magnetic field the scale factor S and the minimum detectable magnetic field were measured to be 8.0 rad/Oe and $3X10^{-6} Oe/\sqrt{Hz}$at 1 Hz detection bandwidth respectively.