• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.314.2-314.2
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• 2014

To improve the optical and electrical properties of commercialized GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs), many methods are suggested. In recent years, great efforts have been made to improve the internal quantum efficiency and light extraction efficiency (LEE) and promising approaches are suggested using a patterned sapphire substrate (PSS), V-pit embedded LED structures, and silica nanostructures. In this study, we report on the enhancement of photoluminescence (PL) intensity in GaN-based LED structures by using the combination of SiO2 (silica) nanospheres and polystyrene/SiO2 core-shell nanospheres. The SiO2 nanospheres-coated LED structure shows the slightly increased PL intensity. Moreover the polystyrene/SiO2 core-shell nanospheres-coated structure shows the more increase of PL intensity comparing to that of only SiO2 spheres-coated structure and the conventional structure without coating of nanospheres. The Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation results show corresponding result with experimentally observed results. The mechanism of enhancement of PL intensity using the coating of polystyrene/SiO2 core-shell nanospheres on LED surface can be explained by the improvement in extraction efficiency by both increasing the probability of light escape by reducing Fresnel reflection and by multiple scattering within the core-shell nanospheres.

• 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2005

Pseudo-Near Field Recording (Pseudo-NFR) system is proposed to prevent contamination and oxidation of media surface occurred in conventional NFR systems. To solve these critical problems of the NFR systems, we investigate the optimal thickness of cover layer for Pseudo NFR. This paper presents the theoretical analysis for cover layer thickness based on the measured length of dust particle and numerical simulation for the temperature distribution using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method and heat conduction equation. To verify the simulation results, we conduct and compare simulation results in case of far field MO recording and near field MO recording. A measured dust particle length in general environment was mostly less than $20{\mu}m$, and the optimal thickness of cover layer is $30{\mu}m$ in this case. Based on the designed optimal cover layer thickness, temperature distribution is simulated to have $800{\~}850^{\circ}C$.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.483-494
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• 2009

Damage detection has been proven to be a challenging task in structural health monitoring (SHM) due to the fact that damage cannot be measured. The difficulty associated with damage detection is related to electing a feature that is sensitive to damage occurrence and evolution. This difficulty increases as the damage size decreases limiting the ability to detect damage occurrence at the micron and submicron length scale. Damage detection at this length scale is of interest for sensitive structures such as aircrafts and nuclear facilities. In this paper a new photonic sensor based on photonic crystal (PhC) technology that can be synthesized at the nanoscale is introduced. PhCs are synthetic materials that are capable of controlling light propagation by creating a photonic bandgap where light is forbidden to propagate. The interesting feature of PhC is that its photonic signature is strongly tied to its microstructure periodicity. This study demonstrates that when a PhC sensor adhered to polymer substrate experiences micron or submicron damage, it will experience changes in its microstructural periodicity thereby creating a photonic signature that can be related to damage severity. This concept is validated here using a three-dimensional integrated numerical simulation.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 초고주파 집적회로에서 일반적으로 사용되는 90。 branch-line 커플러를 CPW와 마이크로 스트립의 다른 두 전송선이 조합된 형태로 구성하였다. 4포트 회로망에 대해서 even-odd 모드 해석 방법을 통해서 전송선들의 적절한 특성 임피던스를 결정하고, 효과적으로 전송선의 특성을 예측할 수 있는 유한 차분법 시간 영역 방법으로 전체 구조에 대해서 계산하였다 그리고 실제 제작 및 측정을 통해서 계산과 측정 결과가 잘 일치함을 화인하였다. 새롭게 제안된 커플러는 기존의 커플러의 비해 동작 주파수에서 두 출력 포트로 전력이 균등히 분배되고, 위상차가 90。로 유지되는 등 매우 우수한 성능을 가짐을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.282-291
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• 2020

The study reports on the design and performance of two air-filled and two partial ethanol-filled photonic crystal fiber (PCF) structures with a tetra core for supercontinuum generation. The PCFs are nonlinear with ultra-flattened zero dispersion. Holes with smaller areas are used to create a tetra-core PCF structure. Ethanol is filled in the holes of smaller area while the larger holes of cladding region are airfilled. Optical properties including dispersion, effective mode area, confinement loss, normalized frequency, and nonlinear coefficient of the designed PCF structures are investigated via full vector finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. A PCF structure with lead silicate as wafer exhibits significantly better results than a PCF structure with silica as wafer. However, both structures report dispersion at a telecommunication wavelength corresponding to 1.55 ㎛. Furthermore, the PCF structure with lead silicate as wafer exhibits a very high nonlinear coefficient corresponding to 1375 W^-1 km^-1 at the same wavelength. This scheme can be used for optical communication systems and in optical devices by exploiting the principle of nonlinearity.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.82-89
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• 2011

In this paper, we numerically study both band-pass and band-stop plasmonic filters based on Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) waveguides and circular ring resonators. The band-pass filter consists of two MIM waveguides coupled to each other by a circular ring resonator. The band-stop filter is made up of an MIM waveguide coupled laterally to a circular ring resonator. The propagating modes of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) are studied in these structures. By substituting a portion of the ring core with air, while the outer dimensions of the ring resonator are kept constant, we illustrate the possibility of red-shift in resonant wavelengths in order to tune the resonance modes of the proposed filters. This feature is useful for integrated circuits in which we have limitations on the outer dimensions of the filter structure and it is not possible to enlarge the dimension of the ring resonator to reach to longer resonant wavelengths. The results are obtained by a 2D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The introduced structures have potential applications in plasmonic integrated circuits and can be simply fabricated.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.538-543
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• 2021

The evanescent wave coupling of a microring resonator is controlled by changing the gap distance between the bus waveguide and the microring waveguide. However, the interdependence of the bus waveguide's width and the coupling is not well understood. In this paper, we investigate the dependence of coupling strength on the bus waveguide's width. The strength of the evanescent wave coupling is analytically calculated using coupled-mode theory (CMT) and numerically calculated by three-dimensional finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) simulation. The analytic and numerical simulation results show that the phase-matching condition in evanescent wave coupling does not provide maximum coupling strength, because both phase-matching and mode confinement influence the coupling. The analytic and simulation results for the evanescent coupling correspond to the experimental results. The optimized bus-waveguide width that provides maximum coupling strength results in intrinsic quality factors of up to 1.3 × 10⁶. This study provides reliable guidance for the design of microring resonators, depending on various applications.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.485-495
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• 2023

The pixel size in high-resolution complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors continues to shrink due to chip size limitations. However, the pixel pitch's miniaturization causes deterioration of optical performance. As one solution, a quad color filter (CF) array with pixel binning has been developed to enhance sensitivity. For high sensitivity, the microlens structure also needs to be optimized as the CF arrays change. In this paper, the covered microlens, which consist of four microlenses covered by one large microlens, are proposed for the quad CF array in the backside illumination pixel structure. To evaluate the optical performance, the suggested microlens structure was simulated from 0.5 ㎛ to 1.0 ㎛ pixels at the center and edge of the sensors. Moreover, all pixel structures were compared with and without in-pixel deep trench isolation (DTI), which works to distribute incident light uniformly into each photodiode. The suggested structure was evaluated with an optical simulation using the finite-difference time-domain method for numerical analysis of the optical characteristics. Compared to the conventional microlens, the suggested microlens show 29.1% and 33.9% maximum enhancement of sensitivity at the center and edge of the sensor, respectively. Therefore, the covered microlens demonstrated the highly sensitive image sensor with a quad CF array.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.83-88
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 일반적인 손실매질의 다층구조로 이루어진 마이크로 스트립선로의 손실특성의 개선을 위한 새로운 구조를 제안한다. MIS(도체-부도체-반도체) 구조로 된 전송선로를 해석하기 위하여 기본적으로 특성임피던스와 전파상수의 추출에 기초한 일반적인 특성화 절차가 사용되고, Si와 SiO2층 사이에 0전위를 가진 도체를 일정한 간격의 주기적인 배열로 고안된 새로운 모델의 MIS구조에 대한 유한차분법을 이용한 해석방법이 사용된다. 특히 전송선로에 대한 유전체의 영향을 줄이기 위하여 0전위를 가진 주기적인 결합의 도체로 이루어진 구조가 시간영역의 신호를 통해 시험된다. 다양한 손실률을 가진 불완전 유전체에 따른 전압 및 전류의 크기뿐만 아니라 주파수 의존적인 추출된 전송선로 파라미터와 등가회로 파라미터가 주파수 함수로서 나타내진다. 특히 본 논문에서 제안한 새로운 구조의 불완전 유전체에 대한 전송선로 파라미터가 주파수 함수로 구해진다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.473-479
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 cellular 이동통신용 기지국 안테나와 같이 사용되는 파장에 비해 비교적 부피가 큰 해석 대상 체의 근거리장에서 전력 밀도를 계산한 내용을 다루었다. 현재 국내에서 cellular 이동통신 기지국용 안테나로 널리 사용되는 판넬형 섹터 안테나를 모델링하고 FDTD 계산법으로 reactive 근거리장의 전자계 분포를 계산하였으며 near to far 변환 통하여 원거리장의 안테나 이득을 구하였다. 그리고 radiating 근거리장의 전력밀도를 계산하기 위하여 원거리장의 이득을 이용하여 gain-based 모델을 적용하였다. 끝으로 radiating 근거리장의 전력밀도 계산 결과와 ICNIRP guideline의 전력밀도에 대한 일반인 및 직업인의 노출 제한 값을 고려하여 인증 거리(compliance distance)를 산출하였다. Gain based 모델을 이용한 계산 결과를 표면주사(surface scanning) 방식을 이용한 전력밀도의 측정 결과와 비교한 결과 주방사 방향의 중심 위치에서 계산된 값은 gain based model을 이용할 경우 -14.55 ㏈m이고, 측정된 값은 -15.75 ㏈m으로 케이블 및 커넥터의 손실을 감안하면 매우 정확한 것으로 나타났다.