• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.26-32
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• 2012

The magnification technique has recently become popular in bone radiography, mammography and other diagnostic examination. However, because of the finite size of X-ray focal spot, the magnification influences various imaging properties with resolution, noise and contrast. The purpose of study is to investigate the influence of magnification and focal spot size on digital imaging system using eDQE (effective detective quantum efficiency). Effective DQE is a metric reflecting overall system response including focal spot blur, magnification, scatter and grid response. The adult chest phantom employed in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was used to derive eDQE from eMTF (effective modulation transfer function), eNPS (effective noise power spectrum), scatter fraction and transmission fraction. According to results, spatial frequencies that eMTF is 10% with the magnification factor of 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 are 2.76, 2.21, 1.78, 1.49 and 1.26 lp/mm respectively using small focal spot. The spatial frequencies that eMTF is 10% with the magnification factor of 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 are 2.21, 1.66, 1.25, 0.93 and 0.73 lp/mm respectively using large focal spot. The eMTFs and eDQEs decreases with increasing magnification factor. Although there are no significant differences with focal spot size on eDQE (0), the eDQEs drops more sharply with large focal spot than small focal spot. The magnification imaging can enlarge the small size lesion and improve the contrast due to decrease of effective noise and scatter with air-gap effect. The enlargement of the image size can be helpful for visual detection of small image. However, focal spot blurring caused by finite size of focal spot shows more significant impact on spatial resolution than the improvement of other metrics resulted by magnification effect. Based on these results, appropriate magnification factor and focal spot size should be established to perform magnification imaging with digital radiography system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.11
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• pp.62-69
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• 1998

The general degradation model has been applied to analyze the hot carrier induced degradation of the DC and RF characteristics of RF-nMOSFET. The degradation of cut-off frequency has been severer than the degradation of bulk MOSFET drain current. The value of the degradation rate n and the degradation parameter m for RF-nMOSFET has been equal to those for bulk MOSFET. The decrease of device degradation with the increase of fingers could be explained by the large source/drain parasitic resistance and drain saturation voltage. It has been also found that the RF performance degradation could be explained by the decrease of $g_{m}$ and $C_{gd}$ and the increase of $g_{ds}$ after stress. The degradation of the DC and RF characteristics of RF-nMOSFET could be predicted by the measurement of the substrate current.t.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.18-28
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• 1998

A laboratory experiment was made of a control of temperature oscillation in Czochralski convection. Numerical computation was also made to delineate the control of temperature oscillation. The suppression of temperature oscillation was achieved by varying the rotation rate of crystal rod ($\Omega=\Omega_0(1+A sin 2{\pi}ft/t_p)$), where A denotes the amplitude of rotation rate and f the frequency factor. Based on the inherent dimesionless time period of temperature oscillation ($t_p$), the suppression rate of temperature oscillation was characterized by the mixed convection parameter ($0.217{\leq}Ra/PrRe^2{\leq}1.658$). The optimal values of A and f were also scrutinized. To understand the suppression mechanism of temperature oscillation, the controls of isotherm($\theta$) and equi-vorticity($\omega$) were investigated.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.74-80
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• 2004

This paper presents analysis and design for Microstrip antennas using FEM (Finite Element Method). For the miniaturization of the antennas, dielectric substrate (ε/sub r/=4.6) and rectangular patch structure are used. The proposed Microstrip antennas are simulated using commercial simulator (HFSS). The results of the simulation are presented and compared with characteristics of each array type. Especial, the proposed antennas can be applied to the design of various communication systems for 2.4 GHz band.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1680-1686
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• 2010

Optical fiber Bragg grating to have the lowest transmitivity at 1549.9nm wavelength was fabricated using a Gaussian distributed KrF Eximer laser of 248nm lasing wavelength and a phase mask of 1.072um period. The proper alignment of an optic setup to fabricate fiber gratings was investigated and the reproductivity of the grating fabrication was examined using the obtained optimum fabrication condition in this experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1585_1586
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 다구찌 기법을 사용하여 최적설계 한 중심 주파수가 920MHz인 휴대용 RFID 리더안테나를 제안한다. 제안한 안테나는 모서리가 절단되고 정사각형 마이크로스트립 패치에 네 변으로부터 슬롯을 갖는 구조이다. 이러한 슬롯구조는 마이크로스트립 패치안테나를 소형화 시킬 수 있으며, 슬롯이 없는 구조에 비해서 약 18%의 안테나 크기 감소가 가능함을 실험을 통해 확인 하였다. 슬롯의 구조를 갖게 되는 소형의 안테나는 복잡한 설계변수에 따라 변화하므로 최적의 안테나 설계를 위해서는 해석 및 시험단계에 수많은 반복이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 해석 및 실험 횟수를 최소화할 수 있는 실험계획법인 다구찌법의 직교배열 표를 도입하여 설계할 때의 주요 요소들의 민감도 해석을 수행하고 그 영향성을 분석하여 해석결과를 바탕으로 설계반복을 최소화 하면서 최적의 구조를 갖는 안테나를 설계 하였으며 유전율이 4.4이고, 두께가 3.2mm 인 Epoxy 1.6T의 기판상에 제작한 안테나 특성에 대한 실험 결과를 제시하였다.

• The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.86-92
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• 1997

An ultrasonic motor(USM) has good characteristics such as compact size, silent motion, high speed responce, low speed and high torque. The USM is driven by 2-phase AC electricity. The control parameters of USM are voltage, phase, and frequency of input powers, etc. In this paper, the fine elasticity and viscosity control with no force feedback can be implemented by a phase difference parameter. Experiment results show the change of torque with regard to elasticity and viscosity. Therefore the USM can be used as a micro-actuator in the automation field of the installation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2006

Acoustic cavity as a stabilization device to control high-frequency combustion instabilities in liquid rocket engine is adopted and its damping capacity is verified in atmospheric temperature. Geometric effects of acoustic cavity on damping characteristics are analyzed and compared quantitatively. Satisfactory agreements have been achieved with linear acoustic analysis and experimental approach. Results show that the acoustic cavity of the largest orifice area or the shortest orifice length was the most effective in acoustic damping of the harmful resonant frequency finally, it is proved that an optimal design process is indispensable for the effective control of combustion instabilities.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.489-498
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• 2006

In this paper, we suggested a vehicle classification algorithm using pattern recognition method. At present, Inductive Loop Detector is rarely used for vehicle classification because of its low accuracy. To improve the accuracy, we suggest a new algorithm for Loop Detector using neural networks. In the developed algorithm, the inputs to the neural networks are the variation rate of frequency and occupancy-time. The output is classified vehicles. The developed algorithm was assessed at test sites and the recognition rate was 91.3percent. The results verified that the proposed algorithm improves the vehicle classification accuracy compared to the conventional method based on Loop Detector.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.3 s.94
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• pp.235-245
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• 2005

In this paper, a novel Ultra-Wideband(UWB) antenna fed by CPW is designed, fabricated, and measured for UWB communications. We have used the Microwave Studio of CST to simulate the proposed antenna. It is designed to work on a substrate TMM4 of thickness 0.762 mm and relative permittivity 4.5. The proposed antenna is satisfied with Ultra-Wideband communication band from 3.1 GHz to 11.5 GHz, for VSWR$\leq$2, and isolated IEEE 802.1la frequency band(5.15 GHz$\~$5.825 GHz) using a rectangular slot. Measured group delay variation is less than 1 ns, thus indicating the proposed antenna a good candidate for UWB applications.