• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.1760-1768
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• 2022

When gamma-camera sensor modules, which are key components of radiation imagers, are derived from the coupling between scintillators and photosensors, the light collection efficiency is an important factor in determining the effectiveness with which the instrument can identify nuclides via their derived gamma-ray spectra. If the pixel area of the scintillator is larger than the pixel area of the photosensor, light loss and cross-talk between pixels of the photosensor can result in information loss, thereby degrading the precision of the energy estimate and the accuracy of the position-of-interaction determination derived from each active pixel in a coded-aperture based gamma camera. Here we present two methods to overcome the information loss associated with the loss of photons created by scintillation pixels that are coupled to an associated silicon photomultiplier pixel. Specifically, we detail the use of either: (1) light guides, or (2) scintillation pixel areas that match the area of the SiPM pixel. Compared with scintillator/SiPM couplings that have slightly mismatched intercept areas, the experimental results show that both methods substantially improve both the energy and spatial resolution by increasing light collection efficiency, but in terms of the image sensitivity and image quality, only slight improvements are accrued.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume I
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• pp.290-293
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• 2006

COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) shall be operated with two remote sensing payloads, MI (Meteorological Imager) and GOCI (Geostationary Ocean Color Imager). Since both payloads have rotating mechanisms, the dynamic coupling between two payloads is very important considering the pointing stability during GOCI operation. In addition, COMS adopts a single solar wing to improve the image quality, which leads to the unbalanced solar pressure torque in COMS. As a result, the off-loading of the wheel momentum needs to be performed regularly (2 times per day). Since the frequent off-loading could affect MI/GOCI imaging performance, another suboptimal off-loading time needs to be considered to meet the AOCS design requirements of COMS while having margin enough in the number of thruster actuations. In this paper, preliminary analysis results on the pointing stability and the wheel off-loading time selection with respect to MI/GOCI operations are presented.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.1093-1094
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• 2008

A tomography system using microwave multi-channel transceiver was fabricated and measured. The tomography system is applicable to detection of breast cancers in a human body. This system is configured by microwave muiti-channel transceivers, a illumination chamber housing monopole antennas and coupling liquid, and image reconstruction algorithm solving inverse scattering problem.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.140-149
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• 2016

For visual measurement under dynamic scenarios, a zoom lens camera is more flexible than a fixed one. However, the challenges of distortion prediction within the whole focal range limit the widespread application of zoom lens cameras greatly. Thus, a novel sequential distortion correction method for a zoom lens camera is proposed in this study. In this paper, a distortion assessment method without coupling effect is depicted by an elaborated chessboard pattern. Then, the appropriate distortion correction model for a zoom lens camera is derived from the comparisons of some existing models and methods. To gain a rectified image at any zoom settings, a global distortion correction modeling method is developed with bundle adjustment. Based on some selected zoom settings, the optimized quadratic functions of distortion parameters are obtained from the global perspective. Using the proposed method, we can rectify all images from the calibrated zoom lens camera. Experimental results of different zoom lens cameras validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.501-509
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an edge profile adaptive bi-directional diffusion interpolation method which consists of shock filter and level set. In recent years many interpolation methods have been proposed but all methods have some degrees of artifacts such as blurring and jaggies. To solve these problems, we adaptively apply shock filter and level set method where shock filter enhances edge along the normal direction and level set method removes jaggies artifact along the tangent direction. After the initial interpolation, weights of shock filter and level set are locally adjusted according to the edge profile. By adaptive coupling shock filter with level set method, the proposed method can remove jaggies artifact and enhance the edge. Experimental results show that the average PSNR and MSSIM of our method are increased, and contour smoothness and edge sharpness are also improved.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.67.2-67.2
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• 2012

Graphene is expected to have a significant impact in various fields in the foreseeable future. For example, graphene is considered to be a promising candidate to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) as transparent conductive electrodes in optoelectronics applications. We report the tunability of the wavelength of localized surface plasmon resonance by varying the distance between graphene and Au nanoparticles [1]. It is estimated that every nanometer of change in the distance between graphene and the nanoparticles corresponds to a resonance wavelength shift of ~12 nm. The nanoparticle-graphene separation changes the coupling strength of the electromagnetic field of the excited plasmons in the nanoparticles and the antiparallel image dipoles in graphene. We also show a hysteresis in the conductance and capacitance can serve as a platform for graphene memory devices. We report the hysteresis in capacitance-voltage measurements on top gated bilayer graphene which provide a direct experimental evidence of the existence of charge traps as the cause for the hysteresis [2]. By applying a back gate bias to tune the Fermi level, an opposite sequence of switching with the different charge carriers, holes and electrons, is found [3]. The charging and discharging effect is proposed to explain this ambipolar bistable hysteretic switching.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 1995

We are confronted with the serious EMI(electromagnetic interference) problems in company with the development of electronic equipments. Accordingly it is also required to construct some anechoic chambers for EMI measurement. Furthermore it is very important to evaluate the chamber characteristics in advance of its construction. For that purpose we have analyzed the characteristics by computer simulation in base on the image method, and compared the results with the measured ones. In case of 3-meter method as a result, the curved line of height pattern of open site varies similarly as that of height pattern of anechoic chamber. When we measure the electromagnetic strength and can get the height pattern curves by frequencies, we utilized it effectively because we can protect instrumental errors in measurement. On the other hand, there is a little difference in site attenuation above 700MHz. When the ferrite grid was used however, the calculated values agree well with the measured values up to 1000MHz with the exception of 30-40 MHz range. The reason is that we don't consider the antenna coupling in the low frequencies of 30-100MHz range.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 광학계의 굴절률, 중심두께 및 곡률반경에 대한 설계변수가 온도변화에 따라 1차 특성 및 결상성능에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 분석하고, 이로부터 온도보정 설계를 실시하였다. 광학설계 변수들을 각각의 사용온도에 해당되는 값으로 변경한 후, 기존의 coupling 및 ruler 설계 개념을 폰 카메라용 렌즈설계에 적용하여 온도보정을 고려한 설계방법을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 온도보정 설계개념을 4매 구성의 1/3.2" 5M 렌즈계에 최초로 적용하여 최적 설계한 결과, 폰 카메라용 렌즈에 대한 일반사양을 만족시키는 동시에 사용온도 $-10^{\circ}C{\sim}+60^{\circ}C$에서의 후초점거리 변화량에 대한 요구사양(${\Delta}BFL{\leq}10{\mu}m$)도 만족시켰다. 또한 최적 설계된 렌즈계의 전장(TTL)은 5.5 mm로 매우 컴팩트한 구성이다. 따라서 본 연구의 결과는 휴대폰 카메라 및 감시 카메라용 광학계 개발에 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.336-341
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 풍력 발전기 내 기 설치된 전력선을 통신 선로로 사용하여 통신 네트워크를 구축하는 기술인 무배선 감시 시스템을 제안한다. 전력선과 데이터통신 기기의 연결을 위하여 발전기의 다양한 전류 및 전압 변화에서도 안정적인 통신이 가능한 유도성 결합장치와 복합통신장치를 사용하였다. 실제 운영되고 있는 풍력 발전기를 대상으로 선로 특성분석을 통해 전력선 통신의 구축 가능성을 확인 후 영상 전송 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 전력선 통신 시스템은 43Mbps 이상의 전송속도를 제공하고, 통신 성공률은 100%로 실시간 비디오 영상 전송이 가능함을 확인했다. 따라서 제시된 시스템은 통신 선로의 추가 설치 없이도 풍력 발전기에 통신 네트워크 구축이 가능하며, 전력선 통신 네트워크 기반의 실시간 감시 시스템을 도입하는 경우 매우 효과적일 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제47권10호
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• pp.720-727
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• 2019

하이브리드 로켓 연소의 저주파수 연소불안정은 고체연료의 열적지연(Thermal Lag)과 경계층 유동 변화에 의한 열전달 진동의 공진에 의해 발생한다. 본 연구는 연료 표면 근처의 경계층 유동의 교란이 어떤 물리적 과정에 의해 발생하여 연소불안정으로 발달하는지를 실험적으로 확인하였다. 특히 산화제의 스월 분사는 연소 안정화에 매우 큰 기여를 하므로 스월 강도를 증가시키며 경계층의 변화와 연소불안정의 발생과정을 연구하였다. 경계층 섭동을 확인하기 위하여 연소 유동장을 가시화하였고 이미지에 대한 POD(Proper Orthogonal Decomposition) 분석을 시도하였다. 스월 강도가 증가할수록 500Hz 대역 고주파수 p', q'의 결합이 약해지며 열적지연과 유사한 주파수 특성을 갖는 Rayleigh Index의 섭동 발생도 약해져 경계층 진동의 발생이 점차 감소하는 것을 관찰하였다. 따라서 고주파수 p', q'의 주기적인 결합에 의한 축 방향 경계층 진동이 나타나면 열적지연 주파수와 공진에 의한 연소불안정이 발생함을 확인하였다.