• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.429-440
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• 2007

A coded excitation has been studied to improve the performance for ultrasound imaging in term of SNR, imaging frame rate, contrast to tissue ratio, and so forth. However, it requires a complicated arbitrary waveform transmitter for each active channel that is typically composed of a multi-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) and a linear power amplifier (LPA). Not only does the LPA increase the cost and size of a transmitter block, but it consumes much power, increasing the system complexity further and causing a heating-up problem. This paper proposes an optimized 1.5bit fourth order sigma-delta modulation technique applicable to design an efficient arbitrary waveform generator with greatly reduced power dissipation and hardware. The proposed SDM can provide a required SQNR with a low over-sampling ratio of 4. To this end, the loop coefficients are optimized to minimize the quantization noise power in signal band while maintaining system stability. In addition, the decision level for the 1.5 bit quantizer is optimized for a given input waveform, which results in the SQNR improvement of more than 5dB. Computer simulation results show that the SQNR of a FM(frequency modulated) signal generated by using the proposed method is about 26dB, and the peak side-lobe level (PSL) of its compressed waveform on receive is -48dB.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1292-1300
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• 1995

The ionic conductivity of NASICON solid electrolytes was simulated by using Monte Carlo Method (MCM). There were included two conduction paths: (1) Na1-Na2 and (2) Na1-Na2 including Na2-Na2. We assumed that mid-Na ions provde an additional driving force for Na mobile ions due to the interionic repulsion between Na1 and Na2 ions. The inflection point of vacancy availability factor, V has been shown at nearby x=2, the maximum mid-Na ions. The inflection point of vacancy availability factor, V has been shown at nearby x=2, the maximum mid-Na sites are occupied. The effective jump frequency factor, V has been shown at nearby x=2, the maximum mid-Na sites are occupied. The effective jump frequency factor, W increased rapidly with the composition at low temperature, but decreased at high temperature region. On Na1-Na2 conduction path, the minimum of charge correlation factor, fc and the maximum of $\sigma$T were appeared at x=2.0. this indicated that mid-Na ions affect on the high ionic conductivity behavior. At the whole range of NASICON composition, 1n $\sigma$T vs. 1/T* plots have been shown Arrhenius behavior but 1n (VWFc) vs. 1/T* have been shown the Arrhenius type tendency at x=2, which mid-Na is being the maximum. The results of MCM agreed with the experimental one when the chosen saddle point value was 6$\varepsilon$ : 3$\varepsilon$. Here the calculated characteristic parameter of materials, K and the phase transition temperature were -4.001$\times$103 and 178$^{\circ}C$ (1/T*=1.92, 1000/T=2.22), respectively.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.192-197
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• 2014

본 논문은 개선된 입력 범위를 갖는 FDPA(Feedback Delay Pass Addition) 방식의 3차 SDM(Sigma-Delta Modulator) 구조를 제안한다. 기존의 구조는 2차 SDM 구조에서 디지털 딜레이 패스만을 추가하여 3차 전달함수를 구현하였지만, 첫 번째 적분기로 피드백 하는 패스가 많아짐에 따라 입력 범위가 매우 작은 단점이 있다. 그러나 제안된 구조는 첫 번째 적분기로 피드백 하는 디지털 패스를 2차 적분기로 피드백 하여 입력 범위를 9dB 개선할 수 있었다 이를 이중 샘플링 기법을 통해 연산 증폭기 한 개 만으로 3차 SC SDM을 구현하였다. 공급전압 1.8V, 신호대역폭 20KHz, 오디오 대역 샘플링 주파수 2.8224MHz 조건에서 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 이용하여 제안한 SDM을 시뮬레이션한 결과, SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)은 83.8dB, 전력소비는 $700{\mu}W$, Dynamic Range는 82.8dB이다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 위상고정루프를 이용한 낮은 지터 성능을 갖는 스마트 오디오 디바이스용 이중출력 주파수 합성기를 제안하였다. 제안하는 주파수 합성기는 1.8 V 동부 $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 이용하여 설계하였다. 다양한 오디오 샘플링 주파수를 출력하기 위해 3차 시그마-델타 모듈레이션을 이용하여 fraction-N 디바이더를 설계하였다. 오디오 반도체에서 요구되는 낮은 지터 성능을 만족 시키기 위해 인-밴드 잡음을 분석, 최적화 하였다. $0.6mm^2$의 칩 사이즈를 가지고 0.6 MHz-200 MHz의 출력 주파수를 갖는다. 모든 모드에서 측정된 지터는 11.4 ps-21.6 ps 이다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.167-179
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• 2018

This paper proposes an IEEE 802.15.4m compliant TV white-space orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (TVWS)-(OFDM) radio frequency (RF) transceiver that can be adopted in advanced metering infrastructures, universal remote controllers, smart factories, consumer electronics, and other areas. The proposed TVWS-OFDM RF transceiver consists of a receiver, a transmitter, a 25% duty-cycle local oscillator generator, and a delta-sigma fractional-N phase-locked loop. In the TV band from 470 MHz to 698 MHz, the highly linear RF transmitter protects the occupied TV signals, and the high-Q filtering RF receiver is tolerable to in-band interferers as strong as -20 dBm at a 3-MHz offset. The proposed TVWS-OFDM RF transceiver is fabricated using a $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS process, and consumes 47 mA in the Tx mode and 35 mA in the Rx mode. The fabricated chip shows a Tx average power of 0 dBm with an error-vector-magnitude of < 3%, and a sensitivity level of -103 dBm with a packet-error-rate of < 3%. Using the implemented TVWS-OFDM modules, a public demonstration of electricity metering was successfully carried out.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.871-876
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• 2006

Rheological behavior of commercial hot pepper-soybean paste (HPSP) was evaluated in small amplitude oscillatory and steady shear tests. Storage modulus (G'), loss modulus (G"), and complex viscosity (${\eta}^*$) as a function of angular frequency (${\omega}$), and shear stress (${\sigma}$) as a function of shear rate (${\gamma}$) data were obtained for 5 commercial HPSP samples. HPSP samples at $25^{\circ}C$ exhibited a non-Newtonian, shear-thinning flow behavior with high yield stresses and their flow behaviors were described by power law, Casson, and Herschel-Bulkley models. Time-dependent flow properties were also described by the Weltman, Hahn, and Figoni & Shoemaker models. Apparent viscosity over the temperature range of $5-35^{\circ}C$ obeyed the Arrhenius temperature relationship with activation energies (Ea) ranging 18.3-20.1 kJ/mol. Magnitudes of G' and G" increased with an increase in ${\omega}$, while ${\eta}^*$ decreased. G' values were higher than G" over the most of the frequency range (0.63-63 rad/sec), showing that they were frequency dependent. Steady shear viscosity and complex viscosity of the commercial HPSP did not fit the Cox-Merz rule.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.95-101
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• 1998

Waveforms of $CO_2$ gas shielded arc welding in short circuit transfer mode was studied with the waveform analysis program, which can calculate various waveform factors such as number of short circuit event, mean and standard deviation of short circuit time and arc time. The calculated values of these factors were correlated independently or in combination with the spatter generation rate to figure out the most reliable index for evaluating spatter generation and further for arc stability. As a result this study, it was confirmed that the spatter generation tends to decrease with the increase of short circuit frequency. Further to this, it was also found that as the short circuit frequency increases the short circuit event becomes more uniform resulting in the decrease of standard deviations ($\sigma$values) of short circuit time and arc time. This result demonstrated that these factors are strongly correlated with each other and thus any one of these factors can be used for the evaluation index. In the discussion, however, short circuit frequency was proposed for the most practical index in evaluating the arc stability of short circuit transfer mode since it is the one which could be monitored in-process condition without any complex caculation process.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.757-765
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• 2007

OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템은 이동성이 있는 고속 데이터 전송에 적합한 전송 방법으로 널리 알려져 있지만, 위상 잡음과 직교 불균형(IQ imbalance)에 매우 민감한 특성을 보이는 단점이 있다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 위상 잡음 특성에 따른 위상 잡음 분산을 계산한 다음, 직교 불균형이 있는 OFDM 시스템의 통신 성능을 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 위상 잡음의 분산과 직교 불균형의 크기 변화에 따라 통신 성능이 변화하는 것을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 진폭 불균형이 ${\varepsilon}$=0.2; 0.3; 0.4이고, 위상 불균형이 ${\phi}=10^0$이고, 위상 잡음의 분산 ${\sigma}^2=0.012$일 때, BER은 $10^{-5}$에서 각각 2.88 dB, 3.61 dB, 4.69 dB의 SNR penalty가 존재한다.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.259-268
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• 2007

A knock detection circuit that is based on the signal of an accelerometer installed on the engine block of a spark ignition automotive engine has a band-pass filter with a certain frequency as a parameter to be calibrated. A new statistical method for the determination of the frequency which is the most suitable for the knock detection in real-time applications is proposed. The method uses both the cylinder pressure and block vibration signals and is divided into two steps. In both steps, a new recursive trigonometric interpolation method that calculates the frequency contents of the signals is applied. The new trigonometric interpolation method developed in this paper improves the performance of the Discrete Fourier Transformation, allowing a flexible choice of the size of the moving window. In the first step, the frequency contents of the cylinder pressure signal are calculated. The knock is detected in the cylinder of the engine cycle for which at least one value of the maximal amplitudes calculated via the trigonometric interpolation method exceeds a threshold value indicating a considerable amount of oscillations in the pressure signal; this cycle is selected as a knocking cycle. In the second step, the frequency analysis is performed on the block vibration signal for the cycles selected in the previous step. The knock detectability, which is an individual cylinder attribute at a certain frequency, is verified via a statistical hypothesis test for testing the equality of two mean values, i.e. mean values of the amplitudes for knocking and non-knocking cycles. Signal-to-noise ratio is associated in this paper with the value of t-statistic. The frequency with the largest signal-to-noise ratio (the value of t-statistic) is chosen for implementation in the engine knock detection circuit.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.284-292
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• 2014

This paper presents a characteristic evaluation of commercial gallium nitride (GaN) transistors having two different gate-lengths of $0.4-{\mu}m$ and $0.25-{\mu}m$ in the design of a class-S power amplifier (PA). Class-S PA is operated by a random pulse-width input signal from band-pass delta-sigma modulation and has to deal with harmonics that consider quantization noise. Although a transistor having a short gate-length has an advantage of efficient operation at higher frequency for harmonics of the pulse signal, several problems can arise, such as the cost and export license of a $0.25-{\mu}m$ transistor. The possibility of using a $0.4-{\mu}m$ transistor on a class-S PA at 955 MHz is evaluated by comparing the frequency characteristics of GaN transistors having two different gate-lengths and extracting the intrinsic parameters as a shape of the simplified switch-based model. In addition, the effectiveness of the switch model is evaluated by currentmode class-D (CMCD) simulation. Finally, device characteristics are compared in terms of current-mode class-S PA. The analyses of the CMCD PA reveal that although the efficiency of $0.4-{\mu}m$ transistor decreases more as the operating frequency increases from 955 MHz to 3,500 MHz due to the efficiency limitation at the higher frequency region, it shows similar power and efficiency of 41.6 dBm and 49%, respectively, at 955 MHz when compared to the $0.25-{\mu}m$ transistor.