• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권5호
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• pp.657-662
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• 2013

A size-reduced high frequency mixer designed by adopting artificial dielectric substrate is described in this work. The artificial dielectric substrate is composed by stacking the lower substrate in which a lot of metalized via-holes exist, and upper substrate on which microstrip lines are realized. The effective dielectric constant increases due to the inserted lots of via-holes, and this may be applied to size-reduction of high frequency circuits. In this work, in order to present an application example of size-reduction for active high frequency circuits using the artificial dielectric substrate, a 8GHz single gate mixer is miniaturized and measured. It is described that the basic circuit elements for mixers such as hybrid, low pass filter, and matching networks can be replaced by the artificial dielectric substrate for size-reduction. The final mixer has 55% of size compared to the normal one. The measured average conversion gain is around 3dB which is almost similar result as the normal circuit.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권8호
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• pp.1585-1591
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• 2009

This paper describes a new method for extracting characteristic impedance of transmission line using Substrate Integrated Artificial Dielectric (SIAD). The new procedure to calculate the characteristic impedance of SIAD transmission line is described with the proper equations and basic transmission line theory. The characteristic impedance is determined as an almost fixed value in the proposed method, while it fluctuates according to frequency in the previous method. As the result, the effective dielectric constant of SIAD transmission line is calculated as a fixed value rather than fluctuating one. In order to show the validity of the proposed method, SIAD microstrip lines are simulated and measured, and characteristic impedances and effective dielectric constant are calculated and compared to the previous method.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3169-3175
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 가유전체 기판구조의 증가하는 유효 유전율 효과를 이용하여 방향성결합기를 소형화하여 설계하는 것에 대하여 기술한다. 방향성결합기는 RF 신호의 크기를 간접적으로 측정하거나 신호전력을 결합하는데 널리 사용되는 회로이다. 가유전체 기판구조는 다수의 도금된 비어홀에 의하여 표준형 기판보다 유효 유전율이 증가하는 특성을 지니는데, 이 특성이 바로 회로 소형화에 이용된다. 한 예로써 2GHz대에서 15dB의 결합계수를 갖는 방향성결합기가 표준형 기판과 가유전체 기판구조에 대하여 각각 설계되고 그 크기가 비교된다. 표준형 회로와 비교할 때, 가유전체 기판구조로 소형화된 방향성결합기는 동일한 성능을 유지하면서도 1/3로 줄어든 회로의 크기를 갖는다. 또한 소형화된 방향성결합기를 제작하여 측정한 성능은 예측 결과와도 매우 유사함을 보여준다. 측정한 성능 결과는 2GHz대에서 -14.62B의 결합도, -24.1dB의 정합도, -0.38dB의 삽입손실 특성을 보여준다.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.108-116
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• 2019

Electro-active polymers and dielectric elastomers have many intriguing properties that enable smart interfaces and electrically tunable optical systems, such as haptic feedback devices, artificial muscles, and expansion-tunable optical elements. These device classes are of great interest owing to their promising roles in next-generation technologies including virtual or augmented reality, human sensing and muscular enhancement, and artificial skins. In this report, we review basic principles, current state-of-the-art techniques, and future prospects of electro-active and dielectric elastomer technology. We describe chemical and physical properties of the most promising polymer substances, essential elementary architectures for artificial muscle-like functionalities, and their applications to haptic interfaces, muscular enhancement, and focus-tunable optical elements.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1234-1241
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• 2011

In this work the potential, and the perspectives of the dielectric elastomer actuator are overviewed briefly. As an exemplary work, we introduce a novel contractile artificial muscle actuator based on Synthetic Elastomer(SE). SE is the name of new dielectric elastomer material we have developed and its synthesis procedures and evaluations are described in the first. The contractile artificial muscle actuator is made by stacking the actuator unit one by one along the in thickness direction and finished up by bonding the multi-stacked actuator. Its possibility for the robotic actuator is discussed and demonstrated via experiments.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.578-588
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• 2005

Face robots capable of expressing their emotional status, can be adopted as an efficient tool for friendly communication between the human and the machine. In this paper, we present a face robot actuated with artificial muscle based on dielectric elastomer. By exploiting the properties of dielectric elastomer, it is possible to actuate the covering skin, eyes as well as provide human-like expressivity without employing complicated mechanisms. The robot is driven by seven actuator modules such eye, eyebrow, eyelid, brow, cheek, jaw and neck module corresponding to movements of facial muscles. Although they are only part of the whole set of facial motions, our approach is sufficient to generate six fundamental facial expressions such as surprise, fear, angry, disgust, sadness, and happiness. In the robot, each module communicates with the others via CAN communication protocol and according to the desired emotional expressions, the facial motions are generated by combining the motions of each actuator module. A prototype of the robot has been developed and several experiments have been conducted to validate its feasibility.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2021

This paper reviews recent developments and applications of dielectric elastomers (DEs) and suggests various techniques to improve DE properties. DEs as smart materials are a variety of electro-active polymers (EAPs) that convert electrical energy into mechanical energy and cause a large deformation when a voltage is applied. The dielectric constant, modulus, and dielectric loss of DEs determine the efficiency of deformation. Among these, the dielectric constant significantly affects their performance. Therefore, various recent approaches to improve the dielectric constant are reviewed, including the enhancement of polarization, introduction of microporous structures in the matrix, and introduction of ferroelectric fillers. Furthermore, the basic principles of DEs are examined, as well as their various applications such as actuators, generators, sensors, and artificial muscles.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.397-401
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• 2011

The response of lightning impulse voltage was explored in dielectric liquids employing hydrodynamic modeling with three charge carriers using the finite element method. To understand the physical behavior of discharge phenomena in dielectric liquids, the response of step voltage has been extensively studied recently using numerical techniques. That of lightning impulse voltage, however, has rarely been investigated in technical literature. Therefore, in this paper, we tested impulse response with a tip-sphere electrode which is explained in IEC standard #60897 in detail. Electric field-dependent molecular ionization is a common term for the breakdown process, so two ionization factors were tested and compared for selecting a suitable coefficient with the lightning impulse voltage. To stabilize our numerical setup, the artificial diffusion technique was adopted, and finer mesh segmentation was generated along with the axial axis. We found that the velocity from the numerical result agrees with that from the experimental result on lightning impulse breakdown testing in the literature.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.1047-1057
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• 2003

A sub-nanometer resolution Scanning Nonlinear Dielectric Microscope (SNDM) was developed for observing ferroelectric polarization. We also demonstrate that the resolution of SNDM is higher than that of a conventional piezo-response imaging. Secondly, we report new SNDM technique detecting higher nonlinear dielectric constants $\varepsilon$$\_$3333/ and $\varepsilon$$\_$33333/. Higher order nonlinear dielectric imaging provides higher lateral and depth resolution. Finally, the formation of artificial small inverted domain is reported to demonstrate that SNDM system is very useful as a nano-domain engineering tool. The nano-size domain dots were successfully formed in LiTaO$_3$ single crystal. This means that we can obtain a very high density ferroelectric data storage with the density above 1T-bits/inch$^2$.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.613-623
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 LTCC(Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics) 공정을 이용하여 다층 구조의 의사 유전체 공진기를 설계하고, 이를 HMIC(Hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuit) 형태의 증폭기, 위상천이기와 함께 폐루프를 구성하여 초소형 전압 제어 의사 유전체 공진기 발진기(Vt-ADRO: Voltage-tuned Artificial Dielectric Resonator Oscillator)를 제작하였다. 의사 유전체 공진기는 주기적인 도체 패턴과 적층을 통해 기존의 유전체 공진기보다 소형의 크기를 갖는 공진기이다. 의사 유전체 공진기의 형상은 기본 도체 패턴 원판형을 갖고 이것을 적층하는 구조를 선정하였으며, 공진기의 물리적 치수 및 적층 수에 따른 공진 특성을 분석하였다. 소형의 크기로 제작하기 위하여 LTCC 기판의 상부에 의사 유전체 공진기를 내장하고, 하부에 증폭기, 위상천이기를 집적하였다. 제작된 의사 유전체 공진기 발진기는 $13{\times}13{\times}3mm^3$로 초소형이며, SMT(Surface Mount Technology) 형태를 갖는다. 설계된 발진기는 설계 주파수에서 개루프 발진 조건을 만족하였으며, 폐루프 측정 결과, 발진 주파수는 조정 전압 0~5 V에서 2.025~2.108 GHz, 위상 잡음은 100 kHz offset에서 $-109{\pm}4$ dBc/Hz, 출력 전력은 $6.8{\pm}0.2$ dBm을 보이며, PFTN(Power Frequency Tuning Normalized) FOM(Figure Of Merit)은 -30.88 dB를 보인다.