• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.58-61
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• 2001

Metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) C-V properties with high dielectric AIN thin films showed no hysteresis and good interface properties. The dielectric constant of the AIN film calculated from the capacitance at the accumulation region in the capacitance-voltage(C-V) characteristics was about 8. The C-V characteristics of MFIS capacitor showed a hysteresis loop due to the ferroelectric nature of the LiNbO$_3$ thin films. Typical dielectric constant value of LiNbO$_3$ film of MFIS device was about 23. The memory window width was about 1.2V at the gate voltage of $\pm$5 V ranges. Typical gate leakage current density of the MFIS structure was the order of 10$^{-9}$ A/cm$^2$ at the range of within $\pm$500 kV/cm. The ferroelectric capacitors showed no polarization degradation up to about 10$^{11}$ switching cycles when subjected to symmetric bipolar voltage pulse(peak-to-peak 8V, 50% duty cycle) in the 500kHz.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.90-103
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• 2006

There are many file systems in various operating systems. Those are usually designed for server environments, where the common cases are usually 'multiple active users', 'great many small files' And they assume a big main memory to be used as buffer cache. So the existing file systems are not suitable for resource hungry embedded systems that process multimedia data streams. In this study, we designed and implemented a new file system which efficiently stores and retrieves multimedia data steams. The proposed file system has a very simple disk layout, which guarantees a quick disk initialization and file system recovery. And we introduced a new indexing-scheme, called the time-based indexing scheme, with the file system. With the indexing scheme, the file system maintains the relation between time and the location for all the multimedia streams. The scheme is useful in searching and playing the compressed multimedia streams by locating exact frame position with given time, resulting in reduction of CPU processing and power consumption. The proposed file system and its APIs utilizing the time-based indexing schemes were implemented firstly on a Linux environment, though it is operating system independent. In the performance evaluation on a real DVR system, which measured the execution time of multi-threaded reading and writing, we found the proposed file system is maximum 38.7% faster than EXT2 file system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.8A
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• pp.1238-1244
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• 1999

In this paper, a new design of a triple-erroe-correcting (TEC) Reed-Solomon decoder is presented based on direct decoding method which is more efficient for the case of relatively small error correction capability. The proposed decoder requires only 9 GF(2m) multipliers in obtaining the error-locator polynomial and the error-evaluator polynomial, whereas other decoders needs 24 multipliers. Thus, the attractive feature of this decoder is its remarkable simplicity from the point of view of implementation. Futhermore, the proposed TEC Reed-Solomon decoder has very simple control circuit and short decoding delay. Therefore this decoder can be implemented by simple hardware and also save buffer memory which stores received sequence.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.734-737
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• 2004

The metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor (MFS) structure is widely studied for nondestructive readout (NDRO) memory devices, but conventional MFS structure has a critical problem. It is difficult to obtain ferroelectric films like PZT on Si substrate without interdiffusion of impurities such as Pb, Ti and other elements. In order to solve these problems, the metal-ferroelectric-insulator-semiconductor (MFIS) structure has been proposed with a buffer layer of high dielectric constant such as MgO, $Y_2O_3$, and $CeO_2$. In this study, the etching characteristics (etch rate, selectivity) of MgO thin films were etched using $Cl_2/Ar$ plasma. The maximum etch rate of 85 nm/min for MgO thin films was obtained at $Cl_2$(30%)/Ar(70%) gas mixing ratio. Also, the etch rate was measured by varying the etching parameters such as ICP rf power, dc-bias voltage, and chamber pressure. Plasma diagnostics was performed by Langmuir probe (LP) and optical emission spectroscopy (OES).

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.51-60
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• 2003

This paper is the research and development including the system design and the prototype system building of the 400MHz wide-band digital autocorrelation spectrometer system for radio astronomy observation, which will be used as back-end signal processing unit of the Dual channel SIS receiver at Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory. So in this paper, we performed development of the high speed digitizing sampler, the circular memory buffer, and the correlator module for the 400MHz wide-band digital autocorrelator. This developed system will be use at TRAO after the housing and some calibration.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.517-520
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• 2002

Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry is a measurement technique to acquire of three dimensional velocity field by two cameras. With a laser sheet illumination, the third velocity component can be deduced by out-of-plane velocity components using a stereoscopic matching method. Industrial fluid flows are almost three dimensional turbulent flows, so it is necessary to use the stereoscopic PIV measurement method. However the existing stereoscopic PIV system seems hard to use since it is very expensive and complex. In this study we have developed a Stereoscopic Miniature PIV(MPIV) system based on the concept of the Miniature PIV system which we have already developed. In this paper, we address the design and some first experimental results of the stereoscopic PIV system. The Stereoscopic MPIV system features relatively modest performances, but is considerably smaller, cheaper and easy to handle. The proposed Stereoscopic MPIV system uses two one-chip-only CMOS cameras with digital output. Only two other chips are needed, one for a buffer memory and one for an interfacing logic that controls the system. Images are transferred to a personal computer (PC) via its standard parallel port. No extra hardware is required (in particular, no frame grabber board is needed).

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.1775-1783
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• 2001

For two decades, there has been an active research to enhance the performances of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) systems. However, the resulting systems are somewhat very costly, cumbersome and delicate. In this paper, we address the design and some first experimental results of a PIV system belonging to the opposite paradigm. The Miniature PIV or MPIV system feature relatively modest performances, but is considerably smaller (out MPIV could hold in dia. 40 mm$\times$120 mm), cheaper (out MPIV total cost is less than $500) and easy to handle. Potential applications include industrial velocity sensors. The proposed MPIV system uses a one-chip-only CMOS camera with digital output. Only two other chips are needed, one for a buffer memory and one for an interfacing logic that controls the system. Images are transferred to a personal computer (PC or laptop) via its standard parallel port. No extra hardware is required (in particular, no frame grabber board is needed). In our first MPIV prototype presented in this paper, the strobe lighting is generated by a cheap 5 mW laser pointer diode. Experimental results are presented and discussed.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.249-257
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• 2005

This paper aims at reducing aliasing in pixel-based rendering for 3D implicit surfaces by shifted multi Z-buffers. The voxelized implicit surfaces with high resolution take so much time in generating high Quality image without aliasing. So in rendering a voxelized implicit surfaces, a new antialiasing method which can generate a high quality image at a lower resolution is required. Therefore, this paper suggests that a method which get various sampling values by shifting several z-buffers in each voxel and average them, The advantages are effective memory, simple calculation and easy convergence with various filters. But, the increase of number of z-buffer also increase the consuming time rapidly. Therefore, the research for representing the relation the degree of image quality with the consumption of time as a number is required.

• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.47-51
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• 2001

To obtain high remnant polarization and good crystalinity of ferroelectric thin films in non-volatile memory devices, the high temperature treatment in oxygen ambient is inevitable. Severe problems that occur in this process are oxygen diffusion into substrate, oxidation of electrode and buffer layer, degradation of microstructure and so on. We made ruthenium dioxide thin film by reactive sputtering with oxygen and argon mixture atmosphere. Comparing quantitatively the core-level spectra of Ru and RuO$_2$ obtained by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS), we found that chemical state of RuO$_2$ is very stable and of good resistance to oxygen diffusion and oxidation of adjacent layers. It opens the use of RuO$_2$ thin film as a multifunctional layer of good conducting electrode and resistive barrier for the diffusion and the oxidation. We also suggest a correct understanding of Ru 3d core-level spectrum for RuO$_2$ based on the scheme of final state screening and charge transfer satellites.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.172-174
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• 2005

플래시 메모리는 오늘날 다양한 형태로 우리 생활의 일부를 차지하고 있다. 휴대 전화기, MP3 플레이에, PDA등과 같은 모바일제품, 이동식 저장매체, 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경 등에 광범위하게 활용되고 있다. 이처럼 많은 분야에서 사용되는 주된 이유는 플래시 메모리의 장점인 저전력 비휘발성, 고성능, 물리적 안정성, 휴대성을 갖기 때문이다. 더불어 최근에는 Gb급 플래시 메모리도 개발되어 하드디스크의 자리를 대체할 수 있는 상황에 이르렀다. 하지만, 플래시 메모리는 하드디스크와 달리 이미 데이터가 기록된 블록에 대해 덮어쓰기(overwrite)가 되지 않는다는 특성을 갖고 있다. 덮어쓰기 위해서는 해당 블록을 지우고(즉, 소거(erase)) 쓰기 작업을 수행해야 한다. 이로 인해 플래시 메모리의 데이터 읽기/쓰기/소거에 비용이 하드 디스크와 같이 동일한 것이 아니라 서로 다르다(읽기 비용을 1로 가정할 경우 쓰기와 소거는 각각 8, 65)[1][5][6]. 따라서 OS, DBMS 등과 같은 시스템 소프트웨어에서 사용된 기존 버퍼 교체 기법은 플래시 메모리의 특성이 고려되지 않았기 때문에 플래시 메모리의 특성을 고려한 효율적인 버퍼 교체기법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 플래시 메모리의 서로 다른 연산 비용 고려한 새로운 버퍼 교체 기법을 제안한다.