• Current Applied Physics
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1327-1337
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• 2018

This paper investigates the vibration behavior of pristine and defected triangular graphene sheets; which has recently attracted the attention of researchers and compare these two types in natural frequencies and sensitivity. Here, the molecular dynamics method has been employed to establish a virtual laboratory for this purpose. After measuring the different parameters obtained by the molecular dynamics approach, these data have been analyzed by using the frequency domain decomposition (FDD) method, and the dominant frequencies and mode shapes of the system have been extracted. By analyzing the vibration behaviors of pristine triangular graphene sheets in four cases (right angle of 45-90-45 configuration, right angle of 60-90-30 configuration, equilateral triangle and isosceles triangle), it has been demonstrated that the natural frequencies of these sheets are higher than the natural frequency of a square sheet, with the same number of atoms, by a minimum of 7.6% and maximum of 26.6%. Therefore, for increasing the resonance range of sensors based on 2D materials, nonrectangular structures, and especially the triangular structure, can be considered as viable candidates. Although the pristine and defective equilateral triangular sheets have the highest values of resonance, the sensitivity of defective (45,90,45) triangular sheet is more than other configurations and then, defective (45,90,45) sheet is the worst choice for sensor applications.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.549-562
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• 2017

The US railroad network carries 40% of the nation's total freight. Railroad bridges are the most critical part of the network infrastructure and, therefore, must be properly maintained for the operational safety. Railroad managers inspect bridges by measuring displacements under train crossing events to assess their structural condition and prioritize bridge management and safety decisions accordingly. The displacement of a railroad bridge under train crossings is one parameter of interest to railroad bridge owners, as it quantifies a bridge's ability to perform safely and addresses its serviceability. Railroad bridges with poor track conditions will have amplified displacements under heavy loads due to impacts between the wheels and rail joints. Under these circumstances, vehicle-track-bridge interactions could cause excessive bridge displacements, and hence, unsafe train crossings. If displacements during train crossings could be measured objectively, owners could repair or replace less safe bridges first. However, data on bridge displacements is difficult to collect in the field as a fixed point of reference is required for measurement. Accelerations can be used to estimate dynamic displacements, but to date, the pseudo-static displacements cannot be measured using reference-free sensors. This study proposes a method to estimate total transverse displacements of a railroad bridge under live train loads using acceleration and tilt data at the top of the exterior pile bent of a standard timber trestle, where train derailment due to excessive lateral movement is the main concern. Researchers used real bridge transverse displacement data under train traffic from varying bridge serviceability levels. This study explores the design of a new bridge deck-pier experimental model that simulates the vibrations of railroad bridges under traffic using a shake table for the input of train crossing data collected from the field into a laboratory model of a standard timber railroad pile bent. Reference-free sensors measured both the inclination angle and accelerations of the pile cap. Various readings are used to estimate the total displacements of the bridge using data filtering. The estimated displacements are then compared to the true responses of the model measured with displacement sensors. An average peak error of 10% and a root mean square error average of 5% resulted, concluding that this method can cost-effectively measure the total displacement of railroad bridges without a fixed reference.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권11호
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• pp.1592-1597
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• 2015

In this study, we developed a fiber-optic temperature sensor (FOTS) based on a silicone oil and an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) to apply the measurement of a coolant leakage in the nuclear power plant. The sensing probe of the FOTS consists of a silicone oil, a stainless steel cap, a FC terminator, and a single mode optical fiber. Fresnel reflection arising at the interface between the silicone oil and the single mode optical fiber in the sensing probe is changed by varying the refractive index of the silicone oil according to the temperature. Therefore, we measured the optical power of the light signals reflected from the sensing probe. The measurable temperature range of the FOTS using a Cu-coated silica fiber is from $70^{\circ}C$ to $340^{\circ}C$ and the maximum operation temperature of the FOTS is sufficient for usage at the secondary system in the nuclear power plant.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2016

본 논문은 $0.18{\mu}m$ 실리콘 CMOS 기술을 이용한 IEEE802.15.4g SUN 체계의 센서노드 무선통신부에 적용할 수 있는 RF 주파수 합성기의 구현에 대하여 기술하였다. 제안한 주파수 합성기는 고속 저잡음 특성을 얻기 위하여 VCO, 프리스케일러, 1/N 분주기, ${\Delta}-{\Sigma}$ 모듈레이터 그리고 PLL 공통 회로 등의 설계 최적화가 이루어졌으며, 특히 VCO는 NP 코어 구조와 13단 캡 뱅크를 각각 적용하여 고속, 저잡음 및 광대역 튜닝 범위를 확보하였다. 제안된 주파수 합성기를 칩으로 제작하여 측정한 결과 출력 주파수 범위는 1483MHz~2017MHz, 위상잡음은 100KHz 오프셋에서는 -98.63dBc/Hz, 1MHz 오프셋에서는 -122.05dBc/Hz로 양호한 특성을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Current Applied Physics
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1473-1479
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• 2018

Recently multiferroic materials have attract great interest for the applications on memorial, spintronic and magneto-electric sensor devices for their spontaneous magneto-electric coupling properties. Research and development of the various kinds of multiferroics are indispensable factor for a new generation multifunctional materials. In this research, mechanical, electronic, magnetic and nonlinear optical properties of La modified $BiLaFe_2O_6$ (BLFO) and Mn modified $Bi_2FeMnO_6$ (BFMO) were studied as new members of multiferroic $BiFeO_3$ (BFO) series by first-principles calculations, and compared with the pure BFO to discover the optimized properties. Our results show that BLFO and BFMO have good mechanical stability as revealed by elastic constants that satisfy the stability criteria. All these compounds exhibit anisotropic and ductile nature. The enhanced properties by La and Mn substitution, such as increased hardness, improved magnetism, decreased band gap and comparable second harmonic generation responses reveal that the new multiferroic members of BLFO and BFMO would get wider application than their BFO counterpart. Our study is expected to providing an appropriate mechanical reference data as guidance for engineering of high efficiency multifunctional devices with the BFO series.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.213-222
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• 2017

최근 IoT 기술의 확산으로 인해 산업 무선 센서 네트워크 분야에서도 IoT 기술이 적용되고 있다. 특히 스마트 팩토리는 유연한 공정 변화 및 맞춤형 제조를 위해 제조 설비에 무선 통신 및 네트워크 기술을 적용하는 것으로 무선 노드의 이동과 빈번한 네트워크 변동에도 적응적으로 네트워킹을 지원하는 것이 중요하다. 대표적인 산업 무선 센서 네트워크 기술인 IEEE 802.15.4e는 TSCH와 DSME의 2가지 MAC 모드를 사용하고 있으며, 그 중 DSME는 네트워크 변동에 강한 저 지연 실시간 전송을 위한 기능을 제공하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 DSME에 기반한 분산 스케줄링 기법을 제안한 것으로 이동성이 높은 산업 무선 센서 네트워크에서 트래픽에 적응적으로 통신 슬롯을 할당하여 산업 무선 센서 네트워크의 시의성과 전송 신뢰성을 확보하고 있다. 제안 알고리즘은 Coordinator 노드의 Local queue의 길이와 Global queue의 길이를 비교하며, Slot stealing 기법에 기반한 Traffic-aware 분산 스케줄링을 수행한다. Slot stealing 기법을 통해 개별 통신 노드의 전송 기회를 효율적으로 보장하면서, Slot stealing을 통해 야기되는 충돌로 인한 성능 저하 및 재전송 문제를 극복하기 위해 GroupACK 기법 적용 및 CAP 구간에 재전송 예약 슬롯을 할당하였다. 이 논문에서는 제안 알고리즘을 TSCH, DSME, legacy IEEE 802.15.4 slotted CSMA/CA와 비교하였고, 다양한 이동성 실험에서 성능 우위를 확인하였다. 실험을 통해 30개 이상의 노드로 구성된 토폴로지에서는 전송 대역폭이 15% 이상 개선됨을 확인하였다. 또한, slotted CSMA/CA에 비해서는 약 40%, TSCH 및 DSME 표준기법에 비해서는 제안 알고리즘을 탑재한 DSME가 15%의 전력 소모 절감이 나타나는 것을 실험적으로 확인하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.79-84
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• 1996

$n^{+}$형 GaAs 기판위에 MBE로 $1\;{\mu}m$ 두께의 GaAs층과 AlAs층 및 GaAs cap 단결정층을 차례로 성장시켰다. AlAs/GaAs epi층을 $400^{\circ}C$에서 각각 2시간 및 3시간동안 $N_{2}$로 bubbled된 $H_{2}O$ 수증기(水蒸氣)($95^{\circ}C$)에서 산화시켰다. 산화시간에 따른 산화막의 XPS 분석결과, 작은 양의 $As_{2}O_{3}$ 및 AlAS 그리고 원소형 As들이 2시간동안 산화된 시편에서 발견되었다. 그러나 3시간동안 산화시킨 후에는, 2시간동안 산화시켰을 때 산화막내에 존재하던 소량의 As 산화물과 As 원자들은 발견되지 않았다. 따라서 As-grown된 AlAs/GaAs epi층은 3시간동안 $400^{\circ}C$의 산화온도에서 선택적으로 $Al_{2}O_{3}/GaAs$으로 변화되었다. 그러므로 산화온도 및 산화시간은 AlAs/GaAs 계면에서 결함이 없는 표면을 형성하고 기판쪽으로 산화가 진행되는 것을 멈추기 위해서는 매우 결정적으로 작용하는 것으로 조사되었다.