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On-the-go Nitrogen Sensing and Fertilizer Control for Site-specific Crop Management

  • Kim, Y.;Reid, J.F.;Han, S.
    • Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.18-26
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    • 2006
  • In-field site-specific nitrogen (N) management increases crop yield, reduces N application to minimize the risk of nitrate contamination of ground water, and thus reduces farming cost. Real-time N sensing and fertilization is required for efficient N management. An 'on-the-go' site-specific N management system was developed and evaluated for the supplemental N application to com (Zea mays L.). This real-time N sensing and fertilization system monitored and assessed N fertilization needs using a vision-based spectral sensor and controlled the appropriate variable N rate according to N deficiency level estimated from spectral signature of crop canopies. Sensor inputs included ambient illumination, camera parameters, and image histogram of three spectral regions (red, green, and near-infrared). The real-time sensor-based supplemental N treatment improved crop N status and increased yield over most plots. The largest yield increase was achieved in plots with low initial N treatment combined with supplemental variable-rate application. Yield data for plots where N was applied the latest in the season resulted in a reduced impact on supplemental N. For plots with no supplemental N application, yield increased gradually with initial N treatment, but any N application more than 101 kg/ha had minimal impact on yield.

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The Effect of Background Grey Levels on the Visual Perception of Displayed Image on CRT Monitor (CRT 모니터의 배경(背景) 계조도(階調度)가 영상의 시각인식(視覺認識)에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyo;Park, Kwang-Suk;Min, Byoung-Goo;Lee, Choong-Woong
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1991 no.05
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    • pp.18-21
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    • 1991
  • In this paper, the effect of background grey levels on the visual perception of target image displayed on CRT monitor has been investigated. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of CRT monitor as a display medium of image information especially in medical imaging field. Three sets of experiments have been performed in this study; the first was to measure the luminance response of CRT monitor and to find the best fitting equation, and the second was the psychophysical experiment measuring the threshold grey level difference between the target image and the background required for visual discrimination for various background grey levels, and the third was to develop a visual model that is predictable of the threshold grey level difference measured in the psychophysical experiment. The result of psycophysical experiment shows that the visual perception performance is significantly degraded in the range of grey levels lower than 50, which is turned out due to the low luminance change of CRT monitor in this range while human eye has been adapted to relatively bright ambient illumination.

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Efficiency Improvement of Al-MIS Solar Cell Using Texturization (Texturization을 이용한 Al-MIS 태양 전지의 효율 개선)

  • Kim, Jin-Seop;Lee, U-Il;Kim, Gi-Wan;Jeong, Ho-Seon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 1982
  • Texturization technique has been employed to improve the efficiency of Al-MIS solar cells. The best condition for the formation of insulating layer was 50$0^{\circ}C$ in N2 ambient for 20 minutes, and the appropriate thickness of the Al barrier metal layer was about 100$\AA$ For the texturization of the face a mixture of hydrazinehydrate and pyrocathecol was used. The efficiency improvement of the texturized cells ranged from 1.2 to 1.6% under 100mW/$\textrm{cm}^2$ illumination.

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Atomization and Evaporation Characteristics of DME Fuel for the Application of HCCI Diesel Engine (HCCI 디젤엔진 연료적용을 위한 DME 연료 미립화 및 증발특성)

  • Chon, Mun-Soo;Hwang, Yong-Ha;Suh, Hyun-Kyu;Lee, Chang-Sik
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.140-146
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    • 2006
  • The objective of this work is to analyze the atomization and evaporation characteristics of dimethyl ether(DME) fuel for the application of HCCI diesel engine. In order to investigate the spray behavior of DME fuel, the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics were investigated in terms of spray development, spray tip penetration, impingement time, SMD, and axial mean velocity under the various injection timing and ambient conditions. For the illumination of spray, the spray visualization system was composed of a Nd:YAG laser and an ICCD camera and laser-sheet method was used. The atomization characteristics of DME fuel are analyzed by using phase Doppler particle analyzer (PDPA) system It was reveal that the spray development of DME is slower and rapidly disappeared as elapsed time after start of injection at the same injection duration. The impingement timing of diesel fuel was fester than that of DME fuel. The comparison of spray atomization characteristics in both fuels shows that diesel fuel has a large SMD value that DME.

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Study of Efficiency Test and Subjective Responses about Pendent Task Lighting System Using Phosphor Luminescent Film LED (광기여 필름 LED 팬던트 작업조명시스템 주관평가와 성능검증)

  • Cha, Kwang-Seok;Kim, Hway-Suh
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.188-193
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    • 2011
  • For a long time work or study, pendent task lighting system prepared with phosphor luminescent film LED was developed for eye protection and working efficiency improvement. Developed lighting system was used together with pendent and ambient lighting. Such as, we made comfortable lighting environment system. Evaluation for developed lighting system, that had proceeded to Mock-up test and subjective evaluation. Also It had proceeded that lighting environment analyzed and compatibility valuation of installation. In subjective evaluation, the students have expressed themselves satisfied to phosphor luminescent film LED lighting system. In Mock-up test, It is not problem to intensity of illumination, luminance and color temperature. Therefore, developed LED lighting system was installed at the Daegu apartment. It is having a P.O.E study progress to phosphor luminescent film LED lighting system.

Image Sticking Evaluation Methods for OLED TV Applications

  • Lee, Hun-Jung;Choi, Dong-Wook;Lee, Eun-Jung;Kim, Su-Young;Shin, Mi-Ok;Yang, Sun-A;Lee, Seung-Bae;Lee, Han-Yong;Berkeley, Brian H.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.1077-1080
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we propose a new method for measuring image sticking of an OLED display using a human visual test. We determined that the perceptual image sticking threshold is 2% of luminance difference at 200 nits and 1% at 100 nits, respectively. Color shift must also be considered when evaluating image sticking, as a ${\Delta}$(u', v') shift of just over 0.002 can be recognized regardless of background brightness. Perception of image sticking is affected by the background level, test pattern, and ambient illumination conditions. The evaluation standard must consider both luminance variation and color shift simultaneously.

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Multiepoch Optical Images of IRC+10216 Tell about the Central Star and the Adjacent Environment

  • Kim, Hyosun;Lee, Ho-Gyu;Ohyama, Youichi;Kim, Ji Hoon;Scicluna, Peter;Chu, You-Hua;Mauron, Nicolas;Ueta, Toshiya
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.36.1-37
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    • 2021
  • Six images of IRC+10216 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope at three epochs in 2001, 2011, and 2016 are compared in the rest frame of the central carbon star. An accurate astrometry has been achieved with the help of Gaia Data Release 2. The positions of the carbon star in the individual epochs are determined using its known proper motion, defining the rest frame of the star. In 2016, a local brightness peak with compact and red nature is detected at the stellar position. A comparison of the color maps between 2016 and 2011 epochs reveals that the reddest spot moved along with the star, suggesting a possibility of its being the dusty material surrounding the carbon star. Relatively red, ambient region is distributed in an Ω shape and well corresponds to the dusty disk previously suggested based on near-infrared polarization observations. In a larger scale, differential proper motion of multiple ring-like pattern in the rest frame of the star is used to derive the average expansion velocity of transverse wind components, resulting in ~12.5 km s-1 (d/123 pc), where d is the distance to IRC+10216. Three dimensional geometry is implied from its comparison with the line-of-sight wind velocity determined from half-widths of submillimeter emission line profiles of abundant molecules. Uneven temporal variations in brightness for different searchlight beams and anisotropic distribution of extended halo are revisited in the context of the stellar light illumination through a porous envelope with postulated longer-term variations for a period of 10 years.

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High Efficiency Solar Cell(I)-Fabrication and Characteristics of $N^+PP^+$ Cells (고효율 태양전지(I)-$N^+PP^+$ 전지의 제조 및 특성)

  • 강진영;안병태
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.42-51
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    • 1981
  • Boron was predeposited into p (100) Si wafer at 94$0^{\circ}C$ for 60minutes to make the back surface field. High tempreature diffusion process at 1145$^{\circ}C$ for 3 hours was immediately followed without removing boron glass to obtain high surface concentration Back boron was annealed at 110$0^{\circ}C$ for 40minutes after boron glass was removed. N+ layer was formed by predepositing with POCI3 source at 90$0^{\circ}C$ for 7~15 minutes and annealed at 80$0^{\circ}C$ for 60min1es under dry Of ambient. The triple metal layers were made by evaporating Ti, Pd, Ag in that order onto front and back of diffused wafer to form the front grid and back electrode respectively. Silver was electroplated on front and back to increase the metal thickness form 1~2$\mu$m to 3~4$\mu$m and the metal electrodes are alloyed in N2 /H2 ambient at 55$0^{\circ}C$ and followed by silicon nitride antireflection film deposition process. Under artificial illumination of 100mW/$\textrm{cm}^2$ fabricated N+PP+ cells showed typically the open circuit voltage of 0.59V and short circuit current of 103 mA with fill factor of 0.80 from the whole cell area of 3.36$\textrm{cm}^2$. These numbers can be used to get the actual total area(active area) conversion efficiency of 14.4%(16.2%) which has been improved from the provious N+P cell with 11% total area efficiency by adding P+ back.

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Performance Analysis of Double-Glazed Flat Plate Solar Collector with Cu-based Solar Thermal Absorber Surfaces

  • Lee, Jeong-Heon;Jeong, Da-Sol;Nam, Yeong-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.157.1-157.1
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    • 2016
  • In this work, we experimentally investigated the solar absorption performance of Cu-based scalable nanostructured surfaces and compared their performance with the conventional TiNOX. We fabricated Cu-based nanostructured surfaces with a controlled chemical oxidation process applicable to a large area or complex geometry. We optimized the process parameters including the chemical compounds, dipping time and process temperature. We conducted both lab-scale and outdoor experiments to characterize the conversion efficiency of each absorber surfaces with single and double glazing setup. Lab-scale experiment was conducted with $50mm{\times}50mm$ absorber sample with 1-sun condition (1kW/m2) using a solar simulator (PEC-L01) with measuring the temperature at the absorber plate, cover glass, air gap and ambient. From the lab-scale experiment, we obtained ${\sim}91^{\circ}C$ and $94^{\circ}C$ for CuO and TiNOX surfaces after 1 hr of solar illumination at single glazing, respectively. To measure the absorber performance at actual operating condition, outdoor experiment was also conducted using $110mm{\times}110mm$ absorber sample. We measured the solar flux with thermopile detector (919P-040-50). From outdoor experiment, we observed ${\sim}123^{\circ}C$ and $131^{\circ}C$ for CuO and TiNOX with 0.6 kW/m2 insolation at double glazing, respectively. We showed that the suggested nanostructured CuO solar absorber has near-equivalent collection efficiency compared with the state-of-the-art TiNOX surfaces even with much simpler manufacturing process that does not require an expensive equipment.

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PID Recovery Characteristics of Photovoltaic Modules in Various Environmental Conditions (다양한 환경조건에서 태양전지모듈의 PID회복특성)

  • Lee, Eun-Suk;Jung, Tea-Hee;Go, Seok-Hwan;Ju, Young-Chul;Chang, Hyo Sik;Kang, Gi-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2015
  • The Potential Induced Degradation(PID) in PV module mainly affected by various performance conditions such as a potential difference between solar cell and frame, ambient temperature and relative humidity. The positive charges as sodium ions in front glass reach solar cell in module by a potential difference and are accumulated in the solar cell. The ions accelerate the recombination of generation electrons within solar cell under illumination, which reduces the entire output of module. Recently, it was generally known that PID generation is suppressed by controlling the thickness of SiNx AR coating layer on solar cell or using Sodium-free glass and high resistivity encapsulant. However, recovery effects for module with PID are required, because those methods permanently prevent generating PID of module. PID recovery method that voltage reversely applies between solar cell and frame contract to PID generation begins to receive attention. In this paper, PID recovery tests by using voltage under various outdoor conditions as humidity, temperature, voltage are conducted to effectively mitigate PID in module. We confirm that this recovery method perfectly eliminates PID of solar cell according to repeative PID generation and recovery as well as the applied voltage of three factors mainly affect PID recovery.