• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1335-1336
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• 2007

Among the emerging non-volatile memory technologies, phase change memories are the most attractive in terms of both performance and scalability perspectives. Phase-change random access memory(PRAM), compare with flash memory technologies, has advantages of high density, low cost, low consumption energy and fast response speed. However, PRAM device has disadvantages of set operation speed and reset operation power consumption. In this paper, we investigated scalability of $Ge_{1}Se_{1}Te_{2}$ chalcogenide material to improve its properties. As a result, reduction of phase change region have improved electrical properties of PRAM device.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.558-562
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• 2012

As an alternative energy, Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have received much attention due to low cost manufacturing procedure and high energy consumption rate. Incorporating scattering centers in the nanocrystalline photoanode or additional scattering layers on the nanocrystalline photoanode is an effective way to enhance the light harvest efficiency of the photoanode and the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The light scattering abilities of these scattering layers also depend on the relative sizes and phase of the particles in the layers. A higher surface area is normally obtained using large particle sizes. Therefore, transparent high surface area $TiO_2$ layers and an additional scattering layer consisting of $TiO_2$-Rutile 500 nm paste with relatively larger particles are attractive. In this work, we investigates the applicability of a hybrid $TiO_2$ electrode (or a working electrode with a light scattering layer) in a DSSCs. We fabrication various thin film using $TiO_2$ paste 20 nm and $TiO_2$ paste 500 nm. As a result, the efficiency of the a single structure thin film was 3.35% and the efficiency as scattering layer of hybrid structure thin film was 4.36%, 4.73%.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2017

In order to better save energy, many buildings have been constructed with high levels of insulation and airtightness in recent years. Additionally, having high quality indoor air has become more relevant, necessitating a ventilating system. This study is aimed at evaluating the performance of a humidity exchanger through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of elements for the purpose of providing comfortable indoor air and reduced energy consumption. The simulation was conducted with three different shapes (triangle, rectangular, and curve) of heat exchanger elements, in order to find the most effective element. A follow-up simulation then proved the efficiency of the chosen humidity exchanger, which was selected by analyzing the results of the preceding simulation, comparing study data with measurement data from the Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL). The resulting analysis revealed that the rectangular element showed the lowest level of efficiency in both heating and cooling, while the curved element showed the highest level of efficiency in both heating and cooling.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.509-525
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• 2018

Sensors and systems in Civionics technology play an important role for continuously facilitating real-time structure monitoring systems by detecting and locating damage to or degradation of structures. An advanced materials, design processes, long-term sensing ability of sensors, electromagnetic interference, sensor placement techniques, data acquisition and computation, temperature, harsh environments, and energy consumption are important issues related to sensors for structural health monitoring (SHM). This paper provides a comprehensive survey of various sensor technologies, sensor classes and sensor networks in Civionics research for existing SHM systems. The detailed classification of sensor categories, applications, networking features, ranges, sizes and energy consumptions are investigated, summarized, and tabulated along with corresponding key references. The current challenges facing typical sensors in Civionics research are illustrated with a brief discussion on the progress of SHM in future applications. The purpose of this review is to discuss all the types of sensors and systems used in SHM research to provide a sufficient background on the challenges and problems in optimizing design techniques and understanding infrastructure performance, behavior and current condition. It is observed that the most important factors determining the quality of sensors and systems and their reliability are the long-term sensing ability, data rate, types of processors, size, power consumption, operation frequency, etc. This review will hopefully lead to increased efforts toward the development of low-powered, highly efficient, high data rate, reliable sensors and systems for SHM.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.845-858
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• 2020

This paper proposes a modified end-to-end secure low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (ME-LEACH) algorithm for enhancing the lifetime of a wireless sensor network (WSN). Energy limitations are a major constraint in WSNs, hence every activity in a WSN must efficiently utilize energy. Several protocols have been introduced to modulate the way a WSN sends and receives information. The end-to-end secure low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (E-LEACH) protocol is a hierarchical routing protocol algorithm proposed to solve high-energy dissipation problems. Other methods that explore the presence of the most powerful nodes on each cluster as cluster heads (CHs) are the sparsity-aware energy efficient clustering (SEEC) protocol and an energy efficient clustering-based routing protocol that uses an enhanced cluster formation technique accompanied by the fuzzy logic (EERRCUF) method. However, each CH in the E-LEACH method sends data directly to the base station causing high energy consumption. SEEC uses a lot of energy to identify the most powerful sensor nodes, while EERRCUF spends high amounts of energy to determine the super cluster head (SCH). In the proposed method, a CH will search for the nearest CH and use it as the next hop. The formation of CH chains serves as a path to the base station. Experiments were conducted to determine the performance of the ME-LEACH algorithm. The results show that ME-LEACH has a more stable and higher throughput than SEEC and EERRCUF and has a 35.2% better network lifetime than the E-LEACH algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3056-3074
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• 2014

Convergecast is probably the most common communication style in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). And linear network coding (LNC) is a promising concept to improve throughput or reliability of convergecast. Most of the existing works have mainly focused on exploiting these benefits without considering its potential adverse effect. In this paper, we argue that LNC may not always benefit convergecast. This viewpoint is discussed within four basic scenarios: LNC-aided and none-LNC convergecast schemes with and without automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanisms. The most concerned performance metrics, including packet collection rate, energy consumption, energy consumption balance and end-to-end delay, are investigated. Theoretical analyses and simulation results show that the way LNC operates, i.e., conscious overhearing and the prerequisite of successfully decoding, could naturally diminish its advantages in convergecast. And LNC-aided convergecast schemes may even be inferior to none-LNC ones when the wireless link delivery ratio is high enough. The conclusion drawn in this paper casts a new light on how to effectively apply LNC to practical WSNs.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.771-776
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• 2023

스크래치패드 메모리는 소프트웨어 제어 온칩 메모리로서 기존의 캐시 메모리의 단점을 완화할 수 있게 설계되어 이용되고 있다. 기존의 캐시 메모리는 태그 관련 하드웨어 제어 로직이 있어 캐시 미스를 사용자가 직접 제어할 수 없으며, 사이즈가 크고 에너지 소모량이 상대적으로 많다. 스크래치패드 메모리는 이러한 하드웨어 오버헤드를 제거하였기 때문에 사이즈, 에너지 소모량에서 장점이 있으나 데이터 관리를 소프트웨어가 해야하는 부담이 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 스크래치패드 메모리의 데이터 관리 기법들을 분류하여 살펴보고 그 장점을 극대화할 수 있는 방안에 대하여 논의하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.115-116
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• 2012

The demand for flexible electronic systems such as wearable computers, E-paper, and flexible displays has increased due to their advantages of excellent portability, conformal contact with curved surfaces, light weight, and human friendly interfaces over present rigid electronic systems. This seminar introduces three recent progresses that can extend the application of high performance flexible inorganic electronics. The first part of this seminar will introduce a RRAM with a one transistor-one memristor (1T-1M) arrays on flexible substrates. Flexible memory is an essential part of electronics for data processing, storage, and radio frequency (RF) communication and thus a key element to realize such flexible electronic systems. Although several emerging memory technologies, including resistive switching memory, have been proposed, the cell-to-cell interference issue has to be overcome for flexible and high performance nonvolatile memory applications. The cell-to-cell interference between neighbouring memory cells occurs due to leakage current paths through adjacent low resistance state cells and induces not only unnecessary power consumption but also a misreading problem, a fatal obstacle in memory operation. To fabricate a fully functional flexible memory and prevent these unwanted effects, we integrated high performance flexible single crystal silicon transistors with an amorphous titanium oxide (a-TiO2) based memristor to control the logic state of memory. The $8{\times}8$ NOR type 1T-1M RRAM demonstrated the first random access memory operation on flexible substrates by controlling each memory unit cell independently. The second part of the seminar will discuss the flexible GaN LED on LCP substrates for implantable biosensor. Inorganic III-V light emitting diodes (LEDs) have superior characteristics, such as long-term stability, high efficiency, and strong brightness compared to conventional incandescent lamps and OLED. However, due to the brittle property of bulk inorganic semiconductor materials, III-V LED limits its applications in the field of high performance flexible electronics. This seminar introduces the first flexible and implantable GaN LED on plastic substrates that is transferred from bulk GaN on Si substrates. The superb properties of the flexible GaN thin film in terms of its wide band gap and high efficiency enable the dramatic extension of not only consumer electronic applications but also the biosensing scale. The flexible white LEDs are demonstrated for the feasibility of using a white light source for future flexible BLU devices. Finally a water-resist and a biocompatible PTFE-coated flexible LED biosensor can detect PSA at a detection limit of 1 ng/mL. These results show that the nitride-based flexible LED can be used as the future flexible display technology and a type of implantable LED biosensor for a therapy tool. The final part of this seminar will introduce a highly efficient and printable BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates. Energy harvesting technologies converting external biomechanical energy sources (such as heart beat, blood flow, muscle stretching and animal movements) into electrical energy is recently a highly demanding issue in the materials science community. Herein, we describe procedure suitable for generating and printing a lead-free microstructured BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates to overcome limitations appeared in conventional flexible ferroelectric devices. Flexible BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator was fabricated and the piezoelectric properties and mechanically stability of ferroelectric devices were characterized. From the results, we demonstrate the highly efficient and stable performance of BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.337-344
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• 2008

음파를 이용한 수중 센서 네트워크는 지상에서의 무선 네트워크 환경과 다르게 긴 전파 지연과 낮은 전송 속도를 가진다. 따라서 기존의 선 네트워크에서 사용되는 프로토콜을 수중 센서 네트워크에 적용될 경우 매우 제한적이며 비효율적으로 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 수중 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율과 처리율 향상을 위한 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜은 슬롯 기반의 경쟁 기법을 사용하며 데이타 패킷을 전송하기 위해 사전에 슬롯을 예약하게 된다. 제안된 프로토콜에서는 경쟁방식에 의하여 노드간의 충돌이 발생할 수 있으나 예약방식에 의하여 인접 노드의 채널을 미리 인지함으로써 충돌을 최소화하고 노드의 불필요한 에너지 소모를 줄임과 동시에 처리율 향상을 가져온다. 제안된 프로토콜에 대한 성능을 평가하기 위해 시뮬레이션을 수행하며 소모된 에너지, 충돌횟수, 채널효율, 처리율과 전송지연시간에 대하여 평가한다. 또한 기존의 MAC 프로토콜과 비교함으로써 제안된 프로토콜이 기존의 프로토콜에 비해 성능이 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2013

본 연구는 목조주택의 건물에너지 성능을 평가하고 개선하기 위해 수행되었다. 목조주택의 에너지 요구량을 산정하기 위하여 CE3 (Construction Energy Efficiency Evaluation) 웹기반 소프트웨어를 사용하였고 그 결과 대상 주택의 연간 난방에너지 요구량은 바닥면적 1 $m^2$당 160 kWh로 계산되었다. 난방에너지 요구량을 줄이기 위해 다음 4가지의 에너지 절감방법을 채택하였다; a) 건물형태의 단순화, b) 창호면적의 축소, c) 고성능 창호의 적용, d) 폐열회수환기장치의 적용. 열관류율 1 $W/m^2{\cdot}K$의 고성능창호로 교체할 경우 대상 주택의 난방에너지 요구량은 80 $kWh/m^2{\cdot}a$로 감소하였다. 4가지 방법을 조합하여 적용하면 고성능창호와 폐열회수환기장치를 함께 적용하였을 때 난방에너지 요구량은 34.5 $kWh/m^2{\cdot}a$로 감소하여 가장 우수한 성능을 나타냈다.